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New Flash! Higher gas price do make people drive less. Really shocking to find out that economics works.

Most politicians, regardless of affiliation, sooner or later insult my intelligence. That politician must be repudiated in the strongest terms and thereafter in my mind disregarded. Luckily when a politician loses my respect, there wasn’t much to lose.
For example, on September 1, 2005 President George Bush publicly stated that he didn’t feel anyone could [...]

When governments in the U.S. and elsewhere began to mandate ethanol doping of gasoline and to subsidize ethanol production I predicted an increase in global food prices as ethanol is predominantly synthesized from the fermentation of sugars and starches. Now that world wide food prices have risen by eighty-three percent in the last three years [...]

I try to show a little, dare I say, balance in my opinions on matters of economics, but after reading an article in Forbes today on a speech that former Fed chief Paul Volcker gave at the Harvard Club, I am having a hard time.
Expansionary monetary policy influences spending habits. This dollar that I [...]

The typical, if not exclusive, method designers use to regulate currency in massively multiplayer games is the so called “the faucet and sink”. Money is created in certain parts of the game usually as a reward to players for defeating enemies or completing missions and it is destroyed elsewhere through attritional or punitive means.
Designers came [...]

In my first ever Organic Chemistry class, Dr. James Tanko told me a secret that I now pass on to you. Organic chemistry can be mastered with the understanding of just two principles, steric and electronic effects. The first means atoms and molecules have shapes and sizes and just as you can’t put a square [...]