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Project: Volunteer Management Site
For a few months, I’ve been tinkering with a volunteer management portal for my wife to use at her job with Classic City Community Church coordinating children’s ministry volunteers. Eventually I hope to make it a portal for parents to register … Continue reading
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Richard Epstein on Income Equality
“It’s not the equality or inequality; it’s the possibility of earning a high rate of return… In a world with genuine opportunities you’ll create billionaires. In a world without it, the people at the bottom will remain where they were, … Continue reading
Prosperity Gospel – A Brief Allegory
At small group last night, we got talking about prosperity gospel preachers (in particular a rather famous gentleman from Houston), and I came up with a rather humorous allegorical image. I pictured a giant billboard along a highway that says … Continue reading
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Upcoming Posts on Life’s Big Questions
I’m about to start some posts on ideas and issues that I believe are very important in life. These will range from faith and knowledge to economics and politics (big surprise there, huh?). I realize I’ve been far too narrow in … Continue reading
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A paper on young children and math abilities.
China – Threat or Not?
The Guardian has this story: China appears on track to forge a modern military by 2020, a rapid buildup that could be potentially destabilising to the Asia-Pacific region, the Pentagon has said. So let me get this straight: a country that’s … Continue reading
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A Humorous Image
On Techdirt, this article: Unfortunately, the industry is pretending that it has everything to do with that. What they’re really looking for are laws not to build back up the gate of copyright — but to take us back into … Continue reading
Price Levels in America, 1665-Present
A PDF with some very good graphs on price levels and inflation going back to before the War for Independence. I thought the logarithmic graph (page 2) was especially enlightening. The linear plot of price levels looks roughly exponential, so … Continue reading
Mises on Inequality
A couple of paragraphs that stood out to me from Ludwig von Mises’ article, “Inequality of Wealth and Incomes“: People can consume only what has been produced. The great problem of our age is precisely this: Who should determine what … Continue reading
Deregulation is Bad?
For my deregulation-hating friends, from Washington Post via David Boaz at Cato: The freedom of individual pursuit — as long as one stays away from politics — is one undoubted achievement of Russia’s post-communist development. Putin’s government reinstated the Soviet-style political … Continue reading
