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I was chatting with my son tonight whilst reading Hucklebery Finn, when we came to the part where Huck and the slave Jim are trying to get

Here is an example of what I write about frequently, copyright renewals that doom a book to obscurity, books that hardly anyone cares about for whi

It’s been a good day on Bloomberg, with yet another insightful

Given the portrayal of an anarchist utopia (Galt’s Gulch) in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged–given the unavoidable conclusion of anarchy given t

The judge tack

Marketers love to entice potential consumers to try their product by adding an endless string of qualifiers.

Paul Starr, a senior adviser to the Clinton health care reform effort, wrote:

“Last year, according to the IMF, the U.S. pumped an extra 1.1% of GDP into the economy.

Someone asked me the proper way to view deposit contracts, in the context of a discussion about fractional-reserve banking (FRB).

NYT: After a brief tirade against the sport by the president