This blog will be filled with many highs and lows of the stories that surround us. Great friendships help us get out of those lows, and below is an email that my dear friend Roland wrote to cheer me up during a really challenging moment a couple of years ago. I wanted to relaunch my site with his email since it captures the essence and spirit that I’m hoping the site will convey. Roland’s pick me up when I was in Latin America is about perseverance, inspiration, hope, humor and appreciation for great friends who help you out of the lows and are cheering you on during ...read more


I’m hoping to showcase a lot of stories around economics on big and small things in this blog, so I thought it might be worthwhile to outline my personal philosophy briefly since it will guide the content that gets selected. It’s possible that my thinking will change through further discussions and evidence, but in the meantime I consider myself to be a “Randian with a Conscience” since I love Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and until recently was a Paul Krugman fan (more on why my interest is waning in another blog entry).
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