Ed Cottrell

  • Life Lesson #53,987

    If you buy a $79 2-cycle, no-name weed eater, one fine Saturday it will half-explode on you, sending you to Home Depot to buy the $200, 4-cycle, no-mix, brand-name model. Buy the latter first – there’s a lower likelihood of shrapnel that way.

  • Reading List

    A number of people have asked me lately what I’m reading on economics and the financial markets right now.  Truth is, I’m always reading such things, and no short list can even come close to covering the variety of material I try to read, from the scholarly and serious (e.g., Posner, Becker, Mankiw, etc.) to…

  • Minors?

    Just learned my alma mater has introduced a number of academic minors. Frankly, I think we had a good thing going with the majors-only system, and I’m sad to see this change, even though it will probably make us more competitive on a national scale.

  • Still Here

    I am still out here. Just not posting much. I have limited time right now, and the things I most want to post about – politics, economics, legal issues, and other current events – are problematic; there are not many things I could say on those topics at present which I feel can be adequately…

  • Workin’ for a Livin’

    In order to catch up from the disastrous start to my week, I had to find another gear if I was going to get my latest project partner-ready in time for said partner, in turn, to get it client-ready in time for delivery to the client today. It was a good project on a great…