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Should Puerto Rico default on its sovereign debts?
You may have heard about the Eurozone crisis (see also cartoon below) and the City of Detroit’s well-publicized decision to declare bankruptcy, but did you know about Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. If not, check out this in-depth report published in yesterday’s New York … Continue reading
Why are there no Nobel prizes in law or business?
The short answer is Alfred Nobel’s will. When Mr Nobel established the Nobel prizes in his will (back in 1895), he created prizes for the natural sciences–Physical Science, Chemistry, and Medical Science or Physiology–, another prize for Literature, as well as a … Continue reading
Are the recent US commando raids in Libya and Somalia legal?
The news media are reporting two military raids–one in Libya, the other in Somalia–led by US commandos (with support from the FBI and the CIA) over this past weekend. Do these military raids violate international law? More to the point, … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, International Law, Libya, Prize Cases, Somalia, US Commando Raids
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“The Story of the Water Droplets”
prior probability is reblogging our “Story of the Water Droplets,” a short personal memoir which won an honorable mention from The Writer Site, an award-winning blog whose main mission is to help writers write. Our short story is less than 400 … Continue reading
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Is the A-Rod lawsuit frivolous?
Yesterday evening, lawyers for the New York Yankees’ star baseball player Alex Rodriguez filed two complaints in New York State court, one against a local hospital and the team doctor of the Yankees baseball club, and another against Major League Baseball and … Continue reading
The Washington Monument strategy
Teagan Goddard‘s Political Dictionary (a kind of “urban dictionary” for wonks) defines the Washington Monument strategy as follows: Named after a tactic used by the National Park Service to threaten closure of the popular Washington Monument when lawmakers proposed serious cuts in … Continue reading
The future of Libya
Will the State of Libya remain a single unified nation, or will Libya break into three separate or semi-autonomous regions along tribal lines? Check out the political map below for what a divided or federal Libya might look like: For more … Continue reading
“Step away from that [smart] phone!”
That is the title of this interesting report in the Sunday Times about the various strategies some people use to disconnect from their smart phones and maintain a modicum of sanity. Here is an excerpt: Whenever Michael Carl, the fashion … Continue reading
David Zetland asks, “What do I lose with the shutdown?”
Not to worry, however, since the so-called “government shutdown” is not a real shutdown: it doesn’t apply to “essential” services, like domestic surveillance and the drug war … Hat tip to aguanomics
“Buy or bite?”
That is the title of my contribution to the upcoming book Economics of the Undead: Blood, Brains, and Benjamins, edited by Glen Whitman and James P. Dow. If you are into vampires, then read my essay, the latest draft of which … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Markets, Blood, legal failure, Vampires, Violence
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