Broback's Blog

…and buttresses my opinion that retirement may be best enjoyed later in life. There’s been a ton of discussion online of late regarding the lack of a decent ROI provided by many four-year degrees. This recently from the New York Times: Young graduates who majored in education and teaching or engineering were most likely to […]

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In his somewhat misleadingly titled post, my friend Steve breathlessly reports that a small survey of 299 college professors shows them to mostly vote Democratic. Whaaaa…? College professors mostly “D”s? Stop the presses(!?) While I suppose it’s mildly interesting those surveyed happen to be professors of Economics, they are hardly representative of the 15,000 economists […]

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I spend a lot of time banging away on the keyboard producing not-always-complimentary thoughts regarding our President’s economic policies. I’ve posted a bit about his approval rating as well. I would be remiss to not note a job well done by Obama’s intelligence gathering team and his Navy Seals for their execution of Osama Bin […]

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Nothing like a little perspective… World Bank economist Branko Milanovic provides us with evidence which appears to refute the romantic worldview that 1930’s dustbowl poverty is pervasive in the world’s most prosperous country. Some of us have been running this chart/distribution natively in our brains, glad to see the empirical analysis backs us up. I […]

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