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Its name honors the late Julian Simon, an economist who won a famous bet with Paul Ehrlich, the Stanford hysteric whose 1968 book The Population Bomb predicted that “hundreds of millions of people” would starve to death in the 1970s as population growth swamped agriculture production.
// Stanford hysteric is a GREAT description of Ehrlich! ha ha ha ha ha
// Stanford hysteric is a GREAT description of Ehrlich! ha ha ha ha ha
Not a surprise
Lowbrow housing options that used to ensure against homelessness are now illegal in many cities.
America's biggest nationak issue , arguably, but it's just noise amid the nonsense
Though Mr. Powell denied any such thing, as he should, it’s likely the Fed’s robust hawkishness was also a deliberate riposte to Donald Trump’s public pleas not to raise rates. The FOMC statement was unanimous and barely changed from the one in November despite the growing market anxiety. We said Mr. Trump’s bullying tweets on interest rates would be counterproductive, and so they were.
// If only the president could get out of his own way sometimes. But it is what it is.
// If only the president could get out of his own way sometimes. But it is what it is.
Your regular reminder that this sensible guy was MUCH too controversial for The Atlantic.