In The Papers: Those Dishonest Economists

I have a lot of respect for George Selgin's academic research, and his paper entitled Those Dishonest Goldsmiths is a good reason why. Abstract: Modern accounts of the origins of fractional-reserve banking, in economics textbooks and elsewhere, often assert that London goldsmiths came up with the idea around the middle of the 17th century, and first implemented…

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Trolling with a fake twitter account

This article on Deadspin is brilliant. I've got my favorite one here (sadly no response), but it's amazing how easy it was for them to pull this off.