 
            Macro Meditations Has Moved
                
            Macro Meditations is moving! After some reflection, I've moved MM to https://macromeditations.blog so that TKeiser.com can focus on entrepreneurship and computer science.…
        
        
        
        
             
            Jack Bogle, Oligopsony, and Capitalism (Part I)
                
            When a daring pioneer passes on to what we wistfully refer to as "the other side", I find it only natural that we have a public retrospective. The words I feel obliged to write are not mere pleasantries.…
        
        
        
        
             
            Homo Economicus Paradox (Part I)
                
            In my last dispatch, I laid out a plan to explore how the application of consensus economic theory to public policy has gone astray. Today, I’ll begin tackling a fundamental tenet of economic thinking: the rational investor. Economists rarely admit this assumption is troublesome…
        
        
        
        
             
            Embarking on a Journey of Inquiry
                
            For years, I have read prevailing economic consensus with considerable bemusement.  "Keep my own counsel", I would oft repeat.  Pillorying prominent academics is unwise, I brooded.  Yet, my reticence to speak must be cast aside.  Economics is no longer a mere academic topic.…