Allow me to rant: I don’t imagine for a moment that America will wean itself from its adolescent addiction to gun enabled mayhem. Let’s face it: America is a violent society, it likes to export its violence, and it enjoys the mayhem with a gusto usually reserved for more constructive pursuits. Anyone unfamiliar with the […]

You probably have missed it, but there is a major furor within the economics profession concerning the findings of an academic paper written by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff in 2010. The profession issues a torrent of papers annually, most of which remain scarcely read and massively under-appreciated. Probably deservedly so since the sole objective […]