EDIT: Obviously, I’ve let this one lie… After catching my breath to be in a place to do a rewrite, the moment pretty much passed. Although, given more time for the opeditors to get their footing, predictably they did start spinning tragedy into policy gold. Witness this Globe piece from 4/26 (Our addiction to violence) [...]
Soon after an initial outpouring of shock and grief at the senseless murder of 32 members of the Virginia Tech community, we began seeking explanations for the tragedy. By all accounts Seung-Hui Cho, perpetrator and 33rd victim of this rampage, was a severely disturbed young man; the snippets of video released so far by NBC [...]
I got my first piece of apparently serious recruiting spam today, from a certain “Denise Moore” of “DHI Partners” or perhaps “DMSearch” (a Google search produces no results for such a person). The alleged client, “Irving Oil,” is seeking a Senior Manager of Marketing. I’m flattered, Ms. Moore, but I do not meet any of [...]
On Sunday, the Globe analyzed recent findings from economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez that the burden of American taxes are increasingly shifting away from the wealthy, at least in the top 2/3 of the income scale, and approaching flat taxation. While discussion of this phenomenon (which is not universally accepted as fact) often focuses [...]
A syndicated column in this past week’s Sunday Globe asserted that home ownership is always better than renting, even when home prices go down. I won’t go through the logic here, but it rests on the assumption that your goal is lifetime consumption maximization, not, say, saving money for your children to inherit.
Today the Economix [...]
Back in college I used to write the student paper frequently and got published more than a few times. ‘Course in the Real World, it’s a spot harder getting a letter published (especially when those letters involve the comics pages) so it was pretty exciting getting my response to an Op-Ed on Thursday in printed [...]
