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The Quiet Danger of Non-Inflation-Adjusted Stock Returns

| Mon, 12/28/2009 - 11:15am | returns and inflation, stock-market returns, stocks and inflation |  6 comments

In today's Wall Street Journal, E.S. Browning has written a quietly important article (gated) about the fact that stock-market returns are almost never adjusted for inflation. While most shrewd investors factor in this omission, my sense is that a great many people never think about it, and therefor ... Read more

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ClimateGate: The Very Ugly Side of Climate Science

| Mon, 11/23/2009 - 12:15pm | climate change, global warming, politics of science, scientist bias, truth about the Inconvenient Truth |  7 comments

When we think about "scientists," most of us probably envision people toiling away in the lab or the field, accumulating and analyzing data in order to test theories, leaving their personal biases at home, scrupulously considering any confounding data or theories and willfully distancing themselves ... Read more

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If Economists Ran the Schools

| Fri, 03/19/2010 - 2:00pm |  Add a comment

A charter school organization in Arizona offers a glimpse at what the educational system would look like if economists were in charge. ... Read the full post ... Read more

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Green Building: LEEDing Us Where?

| Fri, 03/19/2010 - 11:30am |  Add a comment

What good does green building do when our cities are, by design, ecological train wrecks? ... Read the full post ... Read more

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One Thing You Still Can't Do Online

| Fri, 03/19/2010 - 9:45am |  Add a comment

These days, you can do pretty much anything online, except for one: submit your U.S. census forms. ... Read the full post ... Read more

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Quotes Uncovered: The Full Monty

| Thu, 03/18/2010 - 2:30pm |  Add a comment

Each week, I've been inviting readers to submit quotations whose origins they want me to try to trace, using my book, The Yale Book of Quotations, and my more recent research. Here is the latest round ... Read the full post ... Read more

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One Small Step for Financial Literacy

| Thu, 03/18/2010 - 1:00pm |  Add a comment

Annamaria Lusardi, one of the leading academic lights of financial literacy, has begun a new Financial Literacy Center ... Read the full post ... Read more

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Discrimination Against the Thin

| Thu, 03/18/2010 - 11:00am |  Add a comment

A magnificent dinner, but once again I feel discriminated against ... Read the full post ... Read more

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To Fight Malaria, Skip the Beer?

| Thu, 03/18/2010 - 9:49am |  Add a comment

If you're trying to avoid mosquito bites, try skipping the beer. ... Read the full post ... Read more

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Freakonomics Radio: Lewis Black Fixes the Government

| Wed, 03/17/2010 - 3:30pm |  Add a comment

Lewis Black, the smart and wonderfully noisy comedian helps us preview the third episode of our Freakonomics Radio podcast. ... Read the full post ... Read more

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