Society

Rick Bookstaber asks whether LinkedIn anything more than a resume warehouse? Is it simply a web-based Rolodex to make it easier to stay up with your business contacts? He doesn't know the business model for the company, and doesn't have any…

When one's strongest held beliefs are challenged, mostly those beliefs get stronger, regardless of the facts. That's the backfire effect.

Conan O'Brien was the commencement speaker at Dartmouth College on Sunday. Very cool. So how did Conan do? Apparently, he was hilarious. Take a look.

I feel the media in India has become quite complacent about the tawdry condition of free speech in India. All too often journalists can be warned off a seamy story by a tiny exercise of power or influence. All too often, the crooks are able…

I wrote three posts on why human reasoning has not evolved to pursue truth. Rather our minds were designed to argue a ‘side’ irrespective of the facts. In a sense, the facts don’t really matter. I came face-to-face with this phenomenon…

By Claus Vistesen One of the reasons that I have always had a problem with Goldman Sachs' infamous notion of the BRIC economies was not the fact that it excluded other important economies such as e.g Chile or Indonesia, but rather that…

Here's Ron Paul on Chris Matthews' show talking about giving people greater liberty and freedom on a number of different issues. I agree with much of what he says. But here's the part I want to focus in on: property rights. I am all for…

George Soros makes the case for economics as a social science using his theory of reflexivity. Here are some additional thoughts to help understand why markets fail.

Partisans have a well-developed political world view. Facts don't change that view. How does one deal with that? If you're wrong, you will be confronted with a decision on how to react. The insidious thing about this is that when we are…

Grantham: "The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly."