3 Things 3/16/26
Thing One What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen: A Lesson for Today’s Policy Debates The 19th-century French economist Frédéric Bastiat offered a timeless warning about how we evaluate economic policy. In his essay What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen, he wrote: “...In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is s
3 Things 12-30-24
Happy New Year (In Two Days)! Thing One A Thought For The New Year The following is an excerpt from a book called, Personality Isn’t...
3 Things 12-23-24
Thing One Friedman's Four Things Explains Poor Public Anything Milton Friedman, a renowned economist and author once explained that...
3 Things 10-03
Thing One Saving On Car Insurance A recent Wall Street Journal article noted that, “…car-insurance premiums have risen 8.3% on average...
3 Things 8-23
08/23/2021 Although MAS is a financial services company, not everything published herein will be about numbers or investing. But no...
3 Things 4-12
04/12/2021 Although MAS is a financial services company, not everything published herein will be about numbers or investing. But no...
3 Things 2-22
02/22/2021 Although MAS is a financial services company, not everything published herein will be about numbers or investing. But no...
3 Things 12-25
12/25/2020 In the inaugural edition of 3 Things, we said there would be times when we would not be talking about finance and numbers, etc....