tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post115437842616339090..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: The BAC Freedom IndexCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-86471297077377091702010-12-04T03:34:54.221-08:002010-12-04T03:34:54.221-08:00Cap I was recently informed by a man who helps det...Cap I was recently informed by a man who helps determine alcohol legislation in NSw (Australian state) that in about 5 to 10 years the BAC will be 0. <br /><br />So here is a chance for us to test your theory. If you hypothesis is true then NSW's GDP should start to slow after this law is introduced and maybe even decline. <br /><br />- BreezeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-81936386014991862402010-12-02T18:43:00.557-08:002010-12-02T18:43:00.557-08:00There are two and only two things of value in this...There are two and only two things of value in this world. There is productive accomplishment and there is having a good time. In other words, there is work and there is play. The problem I have with social conservatives is that they are deluded enough to believe that there is some other value in addition to these two. This is the reason why social conservative irritate me even more than liberal-left, whom I despise.kurt9https://www.blogger.com/profile/02101147267959016924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1154814009620783512006-08-05T14:40:00.000-07:002006-08-05T14:40:00.000-07:00Uh, pass the gin please.Uh, pass the gin please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1154758441917212822006-08-04T23:14:00.000-07:002006-08-04T23:14:00.000-07:00It is a prank, that's why everybody else found it ...It is a prank, that's why everybody else found it funny.Captain Capitalismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1154738691639743832006-08-04T17:44:00.000-07:002006-08-04T17:44:00.000-07:00This is the funniest blog i have ever read. How sa...This is the funniest blog i have ever read. How sad that it is not just a prank. Because it sure looks like it.<BR/>I don't doubt for a minute you make good charts. But knowing your way around Excel is apparently all you can.<BR/>The BAC correlating with economic growth? Now that is funny. I could find figures on sexually transmitted diseases correlating better with actual figures than this. Or rainfall in the Midlands. Or crime at gun point. Or an inverted Phillips curve.<BR/> And another thing, having read your post where you discredited Norwegian "socialism" by pointing at oil. Do you know why the Norwegian Oil Fund is so large? Because they save everything ans spend only 4% percent a year. And they have Europes highest entrepreneurship-ratio with 100 000 new businesses in 2006, of a population of 4,5 mill. You do the maths. And by the way, the BAC in Norway is 0,02. <BR/>So you know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1154666616754454592006-08-03T21:43:00.000-07:002006-08-03T21:43:00.000-07:00Hey KJ,Yeah, the blog does rock, I have to admit. ...Hey KJ,<BR/><BR/>Yeah, the blog does rock, I have to admit. Glad you're aboard. And yeah, the rum trade in itself is a fascinating economic story in colonial American history.<BR/><BR/>I do get everybody's posts, I just don't have time to respond to all of them.Captain Capitalismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1154625105319326092006-08-03T10:11:00.000-07:002006-08-03T10:11:00.000-07:00I always have a few when I write and usually, barr...I always have a few when I write and usually, barring running or working or driving, there is a steady supply at my bar.Captain Capitalismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1154620241511451182006-08-03T08:50:00.000-07:002006-08-03T08:50:00.000-07:00Can you please post (or link to) a larger version ...Can you please post (or link to) a larger version of these charts? (They are not very legible at this small size.) <BR/><BR/>Thanks !!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1154618101168288762006-08-03T08:15:00.000-07:002006-08-03T08:15:00.000-07:00People of north tend to be heavy drinkers. Norther...People of north tend to be heavy drinkers. Northern Euorpeans, Northern Chinese, ect tend to be hard liqor drinkers and allow them drunk like mud.<BR/><BR/>Southen European like Italians, Greeks or southern Chinese like Cantonese rarely drink heavily. Those regions have less worry about alcoholic problems.<BR/><BR/>The phenomenon is biological not climate. Irish living in southern hot state still drank heavily.AGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06215105474846252137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1154611729705597052006-08-03T06:28:00.000-07:002006-08-03T06:28:00.000-07:00another find argument that drugs do indeed make th...another find argument that drugs do indeed make the world go round and that the war on such is lost.Mulkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08632908844437963858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1154572328402125492006-08-02T19:32:00.000-07:002006-08-02T19:32:00.000-07:00Had a few when you wrote this? :)Had a few when you wrote this? :)Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563974188078700562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1154564289915550642006-08-02T17:18:00.000-07:002006-08-02T17:18:00.000-07:00I'm all for the cause, but... ugh. I did that last...I'm all for the cause, but... ugh. I did that last night. Can I have a day off?<BR/> <BR/>:)Paul E. Zimmermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04480215501034566588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-1154562723544325562006-08-02T16:52:00.000-07:002006-08-02T16:52:00.000-07:00GDP growth correlates with transparency (the TI in...GDP growth correlates with transparency (the TI index), the TI index correlated strongly with the political freedom index (Heritage) and I suppose that the Heritage index will correlate with the BAC. So you could control for any of the above. Otehr than that, we're on to the real plan of the illuminati!<BR/><BR/>Otherwise, too bad we don't have enough lags available for a Granger-causality hypothesis.Gabriel Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020403326536585795noreply@blogger.com