Month: December 2016

rDay Six-Hundred-Twenty-Five

Well, I thought we were finished with these tedious weather posts. But, at about 9:30am today Ivi sent along her photo under the title, “Snowy in Seattle!”.

Snowy in Seattle! (photo by Ivi)
Snowy in Seattle! (photo by Ivi)

Looking out the window, we saw that snow was falling here, too.  And it kept on, all day long. At about 3pm, we struck out for 103 to make a milk and bread delivery. Then, over the next two hours, until arriving back home at 5pm:

The Story of Ricardo

1957_ford-adSome of my email correspondents and I exchange thoughts and links just about daily on subjects probably only interesting to ourselves and perhaps best kept to ourselves.  One such topic is economics, and keeping in mind that that is one of the potential degree alternatives under consideration by Nik, here is an analysis that is a bit heady and long-winded but quite interesting and provocative, and now seems relevant to current concerns that we all have.

http://qz.com/840973/everything-we-thought-we-knew-about-free-trade-is-wrong/

Sea-Steading

tylercowenWriting yesterday in a piece for Bloomberg View, Tyler Cowen discusses the practice of “seasteading”, a concept that he suggests might untether business from politics.   But it reminds me of operations that we first started hearing about under other guises and discriptors in the 70s and 80s in terms of corporations that transcend national borders and even headquarter themselves in ocean locales outside territorial waters, beyond the bounds of national regulation with the potential of becoming independent political units on their own.