Gordon's Notes

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is an old drug. It’s a descendant of chloroquine , which is as old as dirt: Chloroquine was discovered in 1934 by...

I haven’t read Picketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century . I’ll skim it in the library some day, but I’m fine outsourcing that work to...

Unsurprisingly, given the current state of the GOP presidential primary, people who'd prefer to vote GOP are advocating third party equi...

Apple's Tom Cook isn't the worst example of excessive CEO compensation , but his huge stock option grant is bad news all the same. ...

I read Charlie Stross's Rule 34 . Here's my 5 star Amazon review (slightly modified as I thought of a few more things): Rule 34 is...

Krugman tells us Germany and the EU must bail out Greece lest the entire EU crash and burn. Germany is unenthusiastic. Michael Lewis makes ...

During the last half of the 20th century retail investors earned positive returns with some mixture of stocks, bonds, real estate (personal)...

Earlier today I reviewed a decade of Gordon's Notes posts about how information technology has supercharged old frauds . It's an od...

For the past fifteen years I've been fascinated by how the information technologies of the late 20th century supercharged old frauds. I ...

Roger Ebert pays some debts to Murdoch . Debts of vengeance that is. Murdoch has made many enemies. He was particularly good at making enem...

Gwynne Dyer, a journalist once blacklisted by convict  Conrad Black (Canada's mini-Murdoch), has  reviewed Rupert Murdoch's latest...

Reading about the fall of Detroit , the ranting of the GOP's Tea Party House , ubiquitous fraud and corruption , and the emergence of ...

Took longer than I’d hoped, but at last Krugman has Rupert Murdoch in the crosshairs. This won’t be his last Murdoch editorial. We all nee...

Economists used to wonder, from a theoretical perspective, why "firms" including companies, and especially large corporations, exi...

There should be a blogger prize for best medium term prediction. Leonard gets my vote for his 2008 prediction, quoted by him in today's ...

Scott (Dilbert) Adams can’t imagine any way American will survive its 21st century budget crisis .   This betrays a certain lack of hist...

A combination of flawed institutional practices , the nihilistic devastation of the Party of Beck and Limbaugh , and the political, economic...

I had a real bad feeling when the American Academy of Family Physicians closed our once excellent web site to public access . So I wasn’t al...

I missed this Jan 2009 quote when it came out. I tracked it down after reading a post Jacob Reider shared (emphases mine, I remember that sh...

Paul Krugman picks two examples of the corruption of conservative political institutions … Opinions for sale - Paul Krugman Blog - NYT...