I wrote last year about how my BFF Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like taxes:
Personal income taxes for the uhh…upper middle class and the rich are about to skyrocket 31 percent for all New Yorkers making more than $500,000 a year. So I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do, I’m gonna look for an alternative studio somewhere [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fun With Math'
Follow Up: (Rush And) I Told You Not To Mess With Taxes…
July 14th, 2010 · 12 Comments
Buyer Beware · Follow Ups · Fun With Math · Policy
Tags: Buyer Beware · Follow Ups · Fun With Math · Policy
How Do You Value A Life? Economists Are Happy To Show You…
July 1st, 2010 · 22 Comments
Decision Making · Fun With Math · Just For Fun
My friend Marty is convinced that he can’t possibly be the only person who follows both my site and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. I’m not sure I agree, but I’m thankful that he is nice enough to send along relevant links anyway.
From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:
I can’t tell whether the creators of this realized [...]
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Fun With Math: I Need To Teach FIFA How To Perform A Cost-Benefit Analysis…Or Do I?
June 29th, 2010 · 12 Comments
Fun With Math · Sports
For those of you who haven’t been following the World Cup, there are three notable features this time around: vuvuzelas, Landon Donovan (*swoon*) and bad calls by referees. (If you ever turned it on and wondered why it sounded like there was a swarm of bees in the stadium, now you know. [...]
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What Do Banks Do With Your Money Anyway? Jon Stewart Almost Gets It Right…
April 29th, 2010 · 8 Comments
Finance · Fun With Math · Macroeconomics
Tags: Finance · Fun With Math · Macroeconomics
Before You Go Locking Up All Of Those “Crazy” People…
February 17th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Discrimination · Econ 101 · Fun With Math
I decided a long time ago that I didn’t want an academic career, at least in part because I didn’t want to deal with the whole tenure process. (For the record, academia may look all relaxed and thoughtful and tweed-jackety from the outside, but a lot of departments are way more cutthroat and political [...]
Tags: Discrimination · Econ 101 · Fun With Math