insurance
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On how there isn’t enough lyrical writing about insurance … and taxation in The Pale King.
There’s a little bit about insurance in my novel. Not much. Just enough to get people excited. But there used to be more. Honestly, I think it’s a shame there’s so little lyrical writing about insurance out there in popular literature. Insurance is fascinating. A good insurance product is a beautiful thing. Which, right. Let…
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On deficit spending.
I generally like Paul Krugman’s opinion pieces. I think he does a good job of explaining economic concepts in terms that the average reader can understand, and I like that his biases — because economics is a sufficiently squishy subject that your preexisting biases could lead you to diametrically opposite conclusions even when analyzing the…