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If no estate tax is imposed, capital gains taxes can be avoided indefinitely.Collection: Richard
Companies are accumulating vast amounts of information about your likes and dislikes. But they are doing this not only because you're interesting. The more they know, the more money they can make.Collection: Richard
Here is a guiding principle: If a business collects data on consumers electronically, it should provide them with a version of that data that is easy to download and export to another Web site.Collection: Richard
If the government can manage to collect and release personal information in a secure and useful way, so can private companies, which will empower consumers to become better shoppers.Collection: Richard
The ability of businesses to monitor our behavior is already a fact of life, and it isn't going away. Of course we must protect our privacy rights. But if we're smart, we'll also use the data that is being collected to improve our own lives.Collection: Richard
Even a mother - Jewish or not - can't worry about everything. So it is important that we limit our worries to real as opposed to imaginary risks.Collection: Richard
Everyone knows it's dangerous to ingest gasoline or to inhale its fumes. But I am starting to believe that merely thinking about the price of gasoline can damage cognitive processing.Collection: Richard
Although the United States cannot unilaterally lower the price of oil, it can reduce its consumption by using oil more efficiently and by developing alternative sources of fuel.Collection: Richard
The voting public is not very good at attributing credit and blame to presidents. They get too much credit when things go well and too much blame when things go badly. The same applies to coaches, C.E.O.'s, parents, and anyone else in charge.Collection: Richard
Leaders are important but not omnipotent.Collection: Richard
Tax cuts are one of many ways to stimulate the economy. Building infrastructure, for example, is another.Collection: Richard
Demanding that the rich get a tax cut as a condition for tax relief for others is simply elitist.Collection: Richard
If governments want to encourage good citizenship, they should try making the desired behavior more fun.Collection: Richard
How can government reduce the frequency and the severity of future catastrophes? Companies that have the potential to create significant harm must be required to pay for the costs they inflict, either before or after the fact. Economists agree on this general approach. The problem is in putting such a policy into effect.Collection: Richard
Morality aside, there are other factors deterring 'strategic defaults,' whether in recourse or nonrecourse states. These include the economic and emotional costs of giving up one's home and moving, the perceived social stigma of defaulting, and a serious hit to a borrower's credit rating.Collection: Richard
People are less likely to think it's immoral to walk away from their home if they know others who have done so. And if enough people do it, the stigma begins to erode.Collection: Richard
Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist.Collection: Richard
If there is one thing that most economists agree about in the realm of tax policy, it is that it's best to broaden the base of any tax, all else being equal. That means minimizing the number of deductions and exclusions from taxable income in order to lower marginal rates and reduce distortions.Collection: Richard
If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.Collection: Richard
I don't think it says anywhere in the Bible that tithing should be calculated on a before-tax basis.Collection: Richard
Pundits are no better at forecasting election outcomes than they would be at predicting the final path of a hurricane. Smart pundits should consider either abandoning this activity or consulting with the geeks before rendering their guesses.Collection: Richard
Most of us think that we are 'better than average' in most things. We are also 'miscalibrated,' meaning that our sense of the probability of events doesn't line up with reality. When we say we are sure about a certain fact, for example, we may well be right only half the time.Collection: Richard
It makes sense for social scientists to become more involved in policy because many of society's most challenging problems are, in essence, behavioral.Collection: Richard
Parents want their children to excel, callers to a victims' hot line want help, and sick people want to get well. Offering aids is like providing an alarm clock: it may help people get to an appointment on time, but no one is forcing them to use it.Collection: Richard
One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.Collection: Richard
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is absolutely no tendency for rioting and mayhem, and it is extremely civilised.Collection: Richard
We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.Collection: Richard
The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real.Collection: Richard
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.Collection: Richard
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.Collection: Richard
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.Collection: Richard
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.Collection: Richard
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.Collection: Richard
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.Collection: Richard
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.Collection: Richard
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.Collection: Richard
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.Collection: Richard
The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'Collection: Richard
I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.Collection: Richard
You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'Collection: Richard
I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to be Big Brotherish. I would hate that.Collection: Richard
The Bible was written by fallible human beings.Collection: Richard
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.Collection: Richard
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.Collection: Richard
I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.Collection: Richard
Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.Collection: Richard
I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.Collection: Richard
Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something that planets actually do, what influence could they possibly have on human events? A planet is so far away that its gravitational pull on a new-born baby would be swamped by the gravitational pull of the doctor's paunch.Collection: Richard
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.Collection: Richard