Fortuitous Oddity

“Perhaps the skills that make a good economist are, for some reason,
negatively correlated with the attributes associated with being an
agreeable human being.”

A great commentary on the “Greenspan put”.

Reason on “food miles”.

Alex Tabarrok actually crunches the numbers on relative home sizes and is unimpressed.

Craig Newmark comments on the silly NYT piece about the poor, poor single-digit Silicon Valley Millionaires.

The Democrats Dither on Trade.  All their talk about the international community respecting us is apparently forgotten once the unions get involved.

Mankiw on relative wealth

The apparent preference for relative over absolute wealth has always bothered me.  Either people really do think this way (which means people sometimes prefer what is clearly a lesser outcome, which is dumb) or they don’t act this way, but claim they do in surveys (which means, well, they’re still dumb). 

Stirrings of Bryan Caplan are floating through my head.