Get the Think newsletter.SUBSCRIBEMarch 24, 2019, 3:57 PM GMTBy Ani BundelEven the best creators can have a hard time knowing when to stop. The sequel trap has tripped up many a beloved series, written and…
FANGMAN Stocks Crushed by Potential “Unprecedented, Wide-Ranging Probe”…
Yves here. Who’d have thunk it? Curbing rentier capitalism would be bad for rentiers. It’s only recently that more and more economic research and press interest about the cost of monopolies has taken the sheen…
Satisfying the great expectations of the middle class
Today, the politics of wealth is contentious in both democracies and non-democracies. It has helped to create both 'millennial socialism' and political populism (Alstadsæter et al. 2017, Ansell and Adler 2019, The Economist 2019). But…
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty:…
By Hubert Horan, who has 40 years of experience in the management and regulation of transportation companies (primarily airlines). Horan has no financial links with any urban car service industry competitors, investors or regulators, or…
Hubert Horan: Will the “Train Wreck” Uber/Lyft IPOs…
By Hubert Horan, who has 40 years of experience in the management and regulation of transportation companies (primarily airlines). Horan has no financial links with any urban car service industry competitors, investors or regulators, or…
Embattled CalPERS Board Incumbent Henry Jones Puts Foot…
A new Sacramento Bee story, California retirees are facing another hot election over who manages their pensions by Wes Venteicher, is generally evenhanded once you get past a slanted intro.1 The story focuses on this…
McArdle’s Confusion About Costs of Inputs, by David…
One of the best economic journalists in the United States is Megan McArdle of the Washington Post. That makes her error in a recent WaPo article all the more striking. Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek…
Alice Rivlin Reminiscences, by David Henderson
I discussed the late Alice Rivlin here and here. Here are one personal reminiscence about Alice Rivlin and one thought about a 1993 or 1994 Wall Street Journal op/ed she wrote. At the December 1988…
Survivorship Bias (& Compounding) in The Art World
Getting Rich Investing in Art Is So Easy Just figure out what sells for peanuts today and will command a fortune in 30 years or so.Bloomberg, May 16, 2019. You, too, can make…