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Daily Archive for December 14th, 2016

Merry Christmas Mr. Gorbachev

Posted in Central Planning, History on Dec 14th, 2016

I am a big fan of harp-guitar players and one of my favorites is Stephen Bennett. Here is one of my favorites from him, entitled Merry Christmas Mr. Gorbachev. It’s a happy sounding song, as it should be. I imagine he wrote it as a reference to the (in)famous Christmas night in 1991 when Soviet […]

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Consumption (Non)-Smoothing, Scale Economies, Christmas and Sustainability

Posted in Extended Order on Dec 14th, 2016

As seasonal as the first snowfall of the year, or the smell of the crackling wood fires coming from a neighbor’s chimney, the myriad articles telling us how wasteful the Christmas season and holiday season is are an essential and memorable part of each and every December. Here is the (seemingly innocuous) latest from our […]

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