I'm stepping up onto the proverbial soap box. I'm not sure why, but I felt it must be done. Yesterday I deactivated Facebook; an action at least not intentionally related to the starting of this blog. At the very least I hope to waste my time in a more academic, thought provoking, manner.
This blog will be a simple collection of thoughts, ideas, and stories. I am a student in economics and while I endorse the activity of studying economics, I do not cling to it's teachings as if they were absolutes. Instead, I find the theories and ideas of economists merely as different points of view, albeit usually in a more constructive and factual manner than most non-economists (a sweeping generalization, I know, so take this statement at it's face value). If there's one thing I've learned studying economics, it is that for every piece of conventional wisdom that would hold presence around the water cooler, there are handfuls of PhD's with contradictory points of view. This to me, is worth knowing. Not to accept every abstraction of every idea, but simply to know what all the abstractions are and to form my own ideas.
With that in mind, here I will cover topics in economics, finance, human behavior, and whatever else I feel is relevant to this idea that, for every thought printed on a sheet of paper, the contradiction should be printed on the back.
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