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Crooked Timber notes from the FT

…terms, equity and debt, taxpayers and shareholders. Context is all-important – the idiosyncrasies of age, financial circumstances and geography. How do we provide a “neutral” framework for such crooked timber?…

Forbes and the "Self-Made" Label

by cactus Forbes and the “Self-Made” Label I’m kinda busy these days, but this topic is small pet peeve of mine: what the heck is up with Forbes and the…

Off label drug pushers

…have to submit articles.” Off-label use of drugs is big business. According to The Wall Street Journal, “[FDA] is stepping into a high-stakes business issue, because off-label uses of prescription…

Tariffs on Canadian Softwood Lumber

…and Daowei Zhang in their “Market Structure and Timber Harvesting Margins in the U.S. South: A Temporal and Spatial Analysis”, where they begin their modeling discussion thusly: Timber is one…

I. Kant, even

…to me the inescapable task of those who, with Kant, believe that “Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.”The liberty that they seek to…

Mike sends a response to rdan on off-label drugs

…unreasonable cases, but if it is reasonable that the off-label use of the drug might have caused the damage, then the encouraged off-label use would lead to an assumption of…