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Not Wikipedia, but everyone deserves to read this:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Wyoming

So Maj and I are starting a series of children's short stories, and since you people are intelligent, some of you are parents, and you're all mostly pretty critical of like everything, we figured this would be the perfect place to get some opinions of our work. (We're also blogging these on Wordpres...

There's also a huge one in that basic income doesn't put any restrictions on how the recipient spends it, which is a HUGE problem with US-style welfare. If what you need to get a job is a new suit, there are fuckall for welfare programs that can help you. Basic income allows each recipient to spend ...

Most companies only test 10% of their product. What if you tested it all? QC. Most actors only use 10% of their sanity. What if you used none? Busey. Most people only understand 10% of what I say. What if you understood it all? You'll see. Most men use 100% of their strength and stamina. What if you...

I write weekly and monthly columns for marketers in the UK, so this isn't something I'm unfamiliar with. I use this list of American words that the UK doesn't use much, and this list of British slang terms to occasionally put in my text to make them more culturally incognito. If I'm feeling really b...

I consider myself somewhat decently smart about economics and whatnot, but I recently discovered this 'petrodollar' theory and I was amazed that I hadn't heard more about it. No one has time to learn everything, I guess -- so I thought I'd turn to the lot of you to give me your opinions on the worth...

So your argument is "sure, the housing bubble popped and the sCDO market actually did cause the overleveraging that made it a Great Recession instead of a normal bust, but I can take it a step farther back and point at something that may or may not have moved the tipping point to an earlier spo...

Bush 2 fucks around and revenue goes nowhere, then deregulation plus the peak of traditional world oil supply kills the banks Umm...what? The banks' death had zero do to with peak oil. It had everything to do with the deregulating of the financial industry and the subsequent creation of the synthet...

More seriously, your confirmation bias is showing. This is not a mistake someone who was arguing in good faith would have made - if you'd paid even slightly more attention or investigated even slightly more thoroughly, you'd have found red flags that told you you were about to say something that wa...

So why, then, is the EU kicking Keynes in the nuts right now, too?