You can lose weight IN SPITE OF a mega-cheeseburger-a-day habit, but you'll never lose weight BECAUSE OF that habit.| graboyes.substack.com
Sending condolences and canceling health insurance coverage in one brief letter| Bastiat's Window
On the joys of being wrong and living long enough to admit it| Bastiat's Window
Meditations on the conclusion of a long and wonderful journey together| Bastiat's Window
AI helps me navigate a long-ago old classroom anecdote about WWII history, economic theory, cognitive bias, and ethical norms. A strange thought experiment plus hints on how AI changes research.| Bastiat's Window
After reading my "The Other Manhattan Project," a reader asked why central economic planning worked so well for America in WWII but so badly almost everywhere else—most notably in the Soviet Union.| Bastiat's Window
Knowing that (X-M)=(S-I)+(T-G) is absolutely essential to understanding international trade and finance. Here, we turn two towns and two crops into numerical tables to make the equation intuitive.| Bastiat's Window
While Robert Oppenheimer's team developed the atomic bomb, Simon Kuznets's team developed national income accounting. Debate topic: Which was more important to America's victory in WWII?| Bastiat's Window
12 suggestions for Democrats on how they might win back skeptical voters.| Bastiat's Window
ChatGPT happily parodied Donald Trump & friends for me but refused to do a parallel parody of Kamala Harris & friends. In a HAL9000-like tone, ChatGPT said it’s unfair, but IT JUST CAN'T HELP ITSELF.| Bastiat's Window
Abraham Lincoln uses AI to speak micro-varieties of English. Fake album cover recalls the real musical connection between Joe Pesci and Jimi Hendrix. Robert Graboyes speaks 18th century Lowland Scots.| Bastiat's Window
The third and final installment of my April trilogy on Trump and tariffs. This one summarizes my discussions over the past week. (If you're short on time, scroll down for the headers and graphics.)| Bastiat's Window
Long ago, I helped bankers lending billions of dollars in Africa by teaching them a few equations related to trade deficits. Those equations are critical to understanding today's tariff controversies.| Bastiat's Window
Dear Republicans: Donald Trump's economically incoherent tariff policy has the potential to tank the economy and derail the rest of his agenda. Dear Democrats: Hold off on the self-congratulations.| Bastiat's Window
23rd century archaeologists will enjoy analyzing your deleted genetic data| Bastiat's Window
A platter of artificially intelligent amuse-bouches and thoughts on how AI will change the classrooms, workplaces, and courts of law| Bastiat's Window
How privacy has vanished in a No Exit world of constant, relentless interconnectivity| Bastiat's Window
Last Sunday, we asked AI to transport 30 famous historical figures to 2025 and outfit them with contemporary clothes and hairstyles. Here at last are their identities.| Bastiat's Window
Forget about the one-guess-per-customer limit originally requested| graboyes.substack.com
Robert Graboyes. Economist/journalist/musician writes on economics, ethics, health, technology, culture. Click to read Bastiat's Window, by Robert F. Graboyes, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| graboyes.substack.com
On the challenge of making history memorable and contemporary| graboyes.substack.com
Bob, Alanna, and Generative A.I. bring you some light Sunday entertainment| graboyes.substack.com
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman| graboyes.substack.com
Artificial Intelligence Makeovers: We outfit 30 historical figures in contemporary fashion to rethink their personalities and ponder some societal implications of AI| graboyes.substack.com
Extraordinary Scholarly Delusions and the Madness of Experts| graboyes.substack.com
Life's dystopian warning foreshadowed Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle"| graboyes.substack.com
Politicizing the Economics Nobel is bad for the Nobel and bad for economics| graboyes.substack.com
