August 2011
3 posts
How to Get $12 Billion of Gold to Venezuela →
Felix Salmon ponders an interesting problem: how to move $12 billion in gold from England to Venezuela. ★
Aug 24th
Last place aversion →
Shared by Y Figures. Researchers have found that lower income individuals become more opposed to programs designed to help them if people they perceive as below them will also be helped. I…
Aug 17th
A Modest Proposal, Cont. →
On a less satirical note, a lot of my discontent with our narrative of gentrification doesn’t come from a lack of sympathy for the poor and working class of black America. On the contrary, it comes…
Aug 6th