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Of Simple Gifts and Hearts of Glass
On the joys of being wrong and living long enough to admit it
Jul 1
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Robert F. Graboyes
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June 2025
I Lift My Eyes to the Mountains
Meditations on the conclusion of a long and wonderful journey together
Jun 19
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Robert F. Graboyes
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May 2025
Banzai, Miss American Pie — Did American Ideals Veto Kamikaze Tactics?
AI helps me navigate a long-ago old classroom anecdote about WWII history, economic theory, cognitive bias, and ethical norms. A strange thought…
May 30
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Robert F. Graboyes
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Banzai, Miss American Pie — Did American Ideals Veto Kamikaze Tactics?
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Central Planning Meets Socialist Realism
After reading my "The Other Manhattan Project," a reader asked why central economic planning worked so well for America in WWII but so badly almost…
May 22
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Robert F. Graboyes
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Central Planning Meets Socialist Realism
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Farm-to-Table International Economics
Knowing that (X-M)=(S-I)+(T-G) is absolutely essential to understanding international trade and finance. Here, we turn two towns and two crops into…
May 19
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The Other Manhattan Project
While Robert Oppenheimer's team developed the atomic bomb, Simon Kuznets's team developed national income accounting. Debate topic: Which was more…
May 17
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Robert F. Graboyes
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The Other Manhattan Project
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Persuasive Beats Abrasive
12 suggestions for Democrats on how they might win back skeptical voters.
May 13
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Robert F. Graboyes
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April 2025
The Software Bigotry of Low Expectations
ChatGPT happily parodied Donald Trump & friends for me but refused to do a parallel parody of Kamala Harris & friends. In a HAL9000-like tone, ChatGPT…
Apr 29
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Robert F. Graboyes
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The Software Bigotry of Low Expectations
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Lincoln from Chaucer, Pesci and Grampa, Marley and Burns and the King and Picard
Abraham Lincoln uses AI to speak micro-varieties of English. Fake album cover recalls the real musical connection between Joe Pesci and Jimi Hendrix…
Apr 26
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Robert F. Graboyes
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Lincoln from Chaucer, Pesci and Grampa, Marley and Burns and the King and Picard
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Trade Winds 2025—Seriously and Literally
The third and final installment of my April trilogy on Trump and tariffs. This one summarizes my discussions over the past week. (If you're short on…
Apr 24
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Real-World Trade-Deficit Math-Magic
Long ago, I helped bankers lending billions of dollars in Africa by teaching them a few equations related to trade deficits. Those equations are…
Apr 20
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