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We keep hearing that we’re headed for our doom. The debt and deficit will turn us into the Weimar Republic any day now! The zombies are coming! We’re all gonna die!!!! Only gold can save us. Well gold and apparently Costco… [...] Earlier this week I posted about Edible Externalities. Well, apparently the Europeans were listening to me… PARIS — Sugar should be identified alongside alcohol and tobacco as a health danger, and governments should tax sweetened drinks and food as part of their efforts to combat it. So says a commentary, published on Thursday in the [...] In economics, the concept of the externality helps explain the “knock-on” effects of economic decisions and the unintended consequences of choices. Acid rain is a classic example of a pollution externality. Want to see another one? [...] One of my all-time favorite scenes from Blackadder takes place in Mrs. Miggins Coffee Shop (aka The Literary Salon) circa 1780. (Shelley, Coleridge, and Byron are at a table. Shelley sits up holding a handkerchief; Byron stands very erect, staring straight ahead at nothing; Coleridge appears dead. As Shelley begins to speak, the person at [...] What is it with Mediterranean countries these days?
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