Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago School economists and fellow travelers.
Ralf Goergens we wish you a warm welcome! Nevertheless we’ll keep a close eye on you. We hope you won’t mind. Your predecessor had some issues, such as earthquakes, famines, nuclear disasters etc., etc., so we are a bit wary at this point.
But don’t let that put you off! Just relax, be yourself and things should turn out alright. Or else.
Kind regards
Ralf Goergens
p. p. Everybody else
A trip down Market Street before the fire, on April 15th, 1906:
This is from the Prelinger Archives, which were acquired by the Library of Congress and also are part of the Internet Archive.
Via the planet5D blog:
“Landscapes: Volume Two” by Dustin Farrell
Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.
If you have a fast enough computer, you might want to view it in full screen.
You can find more timelapse videos by him here.
I wish my fellow Chicagoboyz (who thankfully haven`t had me hauled in for being AWOL yet, although they have every reason to [I`ll come in from the cold sooner or later, but not just now]) and our readers a Merry Christmas.
P.S: Don`t let the aniti-capitalist message of Charles Dickens` “A Christmas Carol” get to you.
P.P.S: I missed Thanksgiving, so consequently also didn`t wish you all a Happy Same. To make up for my oversight, I`ll paraphrase Ludwig Wittgenstein in wishing you all the very essence of turkeyness for the rest of your lifes (if and when you want it, that is – I`ll leave coercion to agents of the state).
Fatalists become the first fatalities