Author: Haven Pell

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) is a leading candidate to be the Democratic presidential nominee. She has plans for nearly everything and styles herself as a wonk. This contrasts with her desire not to show her 70 years by bounding on to campaign stages and waving her arms about. Fair enough. It is, after all, […]

I recently gave you the rules of this game in a post called Schadenfreude as Tax Policy. Are you a soft drink? If not, why do you need a personal brand? Soft drinks need to be brands because the soft drink makers want you to buy theirs as opposed to somebody else’s. This makes sense […]

I recently gave you the rules of this game in a post called Schadenfreude as Tax Policy. Since we will probably not succeed in reducing our own taxes to zero, we can take the fallback position of increasing taxes on bad behavior. To say nothing of punishing those we dislike. Virtually everyone would agree that […]

I recently gave you the rules of this game in a post called Schadenfreude as Tax Policy. Do you think we have too much or too little amateur commentary? For about 99.99999% of the time since we gave up the delights of hunting and gathering in favor of domesticity, the world happily left commentary to […]