Jan 23, 2021JUST RIGHTWhy Listen to Me For ten years I experimented with fasting. For four years, starting in 2004, I only ate every other day. On the days that I did eat, I did not hold back and ate what I wanted. Then I would start to fast at about 8 that…40 min read40 min read
Jul 4, 2020DezhurnayaDezhurnaya One day In the Fall of 1986, a brochure came in the mail for a lawyer’s tour of the Soviet Union. I signed up and arrived in Moscow with a bunch of other LA attorneys on January 10, 1987. The first surprise was the shabbiness of the airport. The…3 min read3 min read
Jul 3, 2020The Failure of Pandemic MessagingI want my old life back. I miss going to restaurants. I am frustrated that my wife cannot get a flight back home. I want to go to places I haven’t seen. I want this pandemic to be over as quickly as possible. The public health messaging about the virus…4 min read4 min read
May 14, 2017Gatopardismo — we need this wordI was sitting around — not doing what I should be doing. To better justify it, I started reading an Argentine site called El Ojo Digital (the digital eye). One article quoted an Argentine politician using the term “gatopardismo.” I had never seen this word before and so I did…2 min read2 min read
May 14, 2017Final DemandThere is the concept of “final demand.” It refers to the sale of whatever the product is to the buyer who will actually use it. So intermediaries and speculators don’t count. Just the party who actually intends to use whatever it is that is being sold contributes to final demand. …Economics3 min readEconomics3 min read
Mar 5, 2016The last job I had during law school was at a firm that defended big corporations in antitrust…The last job I had during law school was at a firm that defended big corporations in antitrust suits brought by the Department of Justice. I left just as Ronald Reagan was ending the era of anti-trust enforcement that stretched back to another Republican president, Teddy Roosevelt. It’s now forgotten…2 min read2 min read
