Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."