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For the last 13 years, I’ve been using .edu email addresses. I like running a desktop email client, and although GMail now offers IMAP service, I’ve been trying to minimize my Google exposure. Universities seemed like an innocuous party with … Continue reading →

I was fortunate to have three of today’s smartest libertarian tech policy scholars respond to Thursday’s post about spectrum policy. I was particularly interested in Adam Thierer’s thoughtful response: In this case, the net result of your advocacy for a … Continue reading →

I’ve been following the ongoing debate over the AT&T/T-Mobile merger with interest. As regular readers have probably guessed, I have a lot of sympathy for the arguments of merger opponents. Going from four national wireless carriers would represent a significant … Continue reading →

For the last three years I’ve been a computer science grad student at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. I received a master’s degree late last year, and was working toward my PhD. CITP is full of talented people doing … Continue reading →

May has been a busy month, and as a result, I’ve neglected you, my readers. Here are a few links to stuff I’ve posted elsewhere on the web. Over at Freedom to TInker, I report on some research I’ve done … Continue reading →

Responding to the growing trend of Fox News personalities (Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, etc) forming PACs and promoting them on the air, Stephen Colbert recently announced plans to create a PAC of his own. But then he got a letter … Continue reading →

It’s hard to know how to react when someone you’re criticizing insists you don’t actually disagree. Tyler Cowen is a smart guy, so I’m going to take it as a compliment. And it’s true that very little in Chapter 3 … Continue reading →

I recently had the pleasure of reading The Great Stagnation, Tyler Cowen’s excellent “Kindle Single” about the future of innovation and economic growth. Cowen makes the case that, contrary to the right-of-center conventional wisdom, the American economy is in the … Continue reading →

Milton Meuller makes the case against the AT&T/T-Mobile merger: Let’s begin at the beginning and ask why this merger is happening. It’s not as if AT&T is gaining dominance the way Google gained it in search and advertising, or the … Continue reading →

Yesterday I questioned whether we should expect demand for Bitcoins to be stable over the long run. Today I want to look at the supply side. A constrained supply of money is important to a currency’s stability. One of Bitcoin’s … Continue reading →