Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Friday (16 October) would have been my father’s 83rd birthday. Here is a link to his obituary, along with some additional photos.

Alternate title: Dog bites man According to this recent report (see also here) from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Research and Statistics Group (Mary Amiti, Sebastian Heise, and David E. Weinstein, “The Anatomy of Tariff Pass-Through into Consumer … Continue reading →

I already knew that the Effective Altruism movement is the biggest scam since snake oil, i.e. a kind of secular absolution for the amoral among us. (See here, here or here, for example.) But check out this brutal takedown of … Continue reading →

Trigger warning: Today’s post will be deliberately provocative and inflammatory! Instead of recognizing an econ giant like Richard A. Posner or Thomas Sowell, the 2026 Nobel Prize in “economic sciences” (see here) went to Robert Hall (Stanford) and Michael Woodford … Continue reading →

My wife and I finally saw Aaron Sorkin’s long-awaited sequel to The Social Network this past weekend. To minimize spoilers, here are my top-three takeaways: The Good: Should Facebook “fact-check” political ads? My favorite scenes in The Social Reckoning are … Continue reading →

Did you know that it was Cristóbal Colón (a/k/a Christopher Columbus) who, in addition to his maritime exploits, initiated the longest-running lawsuit in history? According to Daniel Voelker (see here or here), an attorney who has conducted extensive research on this … Continue reading →

Isn’t this ballad one of the most beautiful love songs of all time? I think so!

I just discovered that Univeristy of Chicago law professor Randal C. Picker (pictured below) died unexpectedly at age 66 on August 15. (See here.) Although I never had the pleasure of befriending Professor Picker in person, our scholarly paths intersected … Continue reading →

File under A.I. slop or cutting-edge science? Did you know that just a few days ago (6 October 2026, a day that may live in mathematical infamy!) OpenAI published hundreds of manuscripts on unsolved math problems in one fell swoop, … Continue reading →