Johnnie (‘04) here: can confirm he was an awesome human, and the players he coached were good guys, too. Shame Blake Elliott broke his leg in training camp.

I enjoy these posts, because people buzz click and whirr as though they’re hosts trying to grasp their self-consciousness.

I love seeing libertarian tears/stupidity, but this here is an object lesson in what gives money its value. It’s not because it’s backed by anything, has an intrinsic value, or a shared delusion. The USD has value because you owe taxes in it. Many many things are money things, and as Hyman Minsky said, anybody can…

Hell yeah! And what a great public works program that would be. Jobs! Internet! What a world.

Perhaps a silver lining is that this will make it obvious that internet should be a publicly regulated utility.

Another data point that K-PhD should be free.

All you can do at this point is just erase all student loans.

I know it’s petty, but part of my hate for him is reserved for people thinking he’s dapper/handsome/well-dressed. He’s dressed like an 8th grade debater’s idea of what men’s fashion is and only has access to his dad’s closet and its ill-fitting clothes. Christ.

You’re going to get a lot of pushback on this article, though it’s spot on. Funny how self-proclaimed welfare-staters suddenly find True Religion when it’s the other party expanding the deficit.

I wonder what the cross-section is of people who believe the government can control weather and people who think the government is unable to do anything right.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Sustainable degradation is still degradation.

Yes, precisely so! Fiscal policy produces and distributes scarcity, and getting over *that* requires more than a “one weird trick” approach to social relations

What is money and/or currency

When I was writing my dissertation more than a few years ago, I stumbled onto this modern money stuff. It was a glimmer of hope that perhaps, post-GFC, we might have a sane fiscal policy. Of course we know how that went.

You’re fighting the good fight here. It’s so frustrating that people default to a freshman-seminar-level-John Stuart Mill approach to classical liberalism for a cheap ethical high ground in the clouds of abstraction.

Can’t let you do that, Starfox!

If I could get Zotero to work with google docs, I’d switch today.

Naked Capitalism has a brilliant multi-part series from a transportation analyst on why Uber can’t seem to be profitable. Part 1: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver-part-one-understanding-ubers-bleak-operating-economics.html

First, thanks for all your reporting on this issue!

Well played, Mauer.