Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Economics: Monopolies Are A Fairy Tale

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    ( Drivebycuriosity) - Politicians and the media see monopolies behind every corner. The US has 2 huge administrations that try to hunt...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Books: Bringing Up The Bodies By Hilary Mantel

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  ( Drivebycuriosity) - Henry VIII and his six wives are so famous that they almost became a cliché. Hilary Mantel´s  "Wolf Hall" ...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Books: The Wrong Stuff - How The Soviet Space Program Crashed And Burned

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  (Drivebycuriosity) - In October 1957 the world got baffled - the Soviets shot a satellite into earth orbit, the Sputnik. This was the fir...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

Economics: Why Are The Inflation Expectations Way Too High?

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   (Drivebycuriosity) - If we believe the University of Michigan, i n the next 12 months  the US inflation rate will be 4.2%. This is the r...

Books: Vile Bodies By Evelyn Waugh

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  (Drivebycuriosity) - Evelyn Waugh belongs to the most important English writer of the 20th century  and he is loved for his "dark an...
Monday, December 29, 2025

Books: How The Chicago School Of Economics Influenced Science, Politics & Economy

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  ( Drivebycuriosity) - Scarcity belongs to the greatest problems of live. We are short of many things: money, capital, time, space, medicin...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Books: Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid

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  ( Drivebycuriosity) - Vanilla seems to be a very simple and boring product, as the slogan "plain vanilla" claims. But I learned ...