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Daily Archive for September 24th, 2010

Incredible that This Has Become Dog Bites Man

Posted in Government Gone Wild on Sep 24th, 2010

Not even in the lead headlines, I find tucked away in my RSS reader: “US Bails Out Major Credit Unions” Well, it is only $30 billion. Just to put that number in perspective, if you take some estimates seriously, it would seem to take only about $75 billion in total to largely eradicate malaria around […]

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What Methodology Tells Us About the Ineptitude of Urban Planning

Posted in Extended Order, Methodology on Sep 24th, 2010

A while ago I linked to a few stories highlighting some miserable failures in urban planning in Cleveland and Pittsfield. I received several e-mails asking things like, “propose something better” and “should we let them all die?” Without discussing either of those (I will soon) allow me to make a methodological argument about the problem […]

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