A Bit About Me

Hi there! My name is James Wang, and I’m just a person who’s very interested in politics, economics, business, and finance. I started this blog in hopes of expressing the views I’m usually quite vocal about in person, but haven’t been able to get to a wider audience than those immediately around me. Besides that, many people close to me told me to go get a blog. Whether they did that because they found my views enlightening or because they wanted me to go away, I’ll probably never know.

What Else Do You Do?

Currently, I’m a student at Dartmouth College majoring in philosophy and economics. Strange combination, I know, but it’s all good fun. In any case, I’m also managing editor currently of the Dartmouth Free Press. It’s an interesting student publication, you should take a look at it if you have time.

In addition to this, I’m a fan of talking, reading, writing. I used to do various sports, but now I’ve mainly gone to occasionally practicing martial arts on my own. I’ve trained in a smattering of them all across the board, but my main one has been wushu, which I learned at UC Berkeley and in Beijing, China.

Why Are You Writing?

I’m writing in hopes of garnering some attention for the issues I bring up here. Many of them aren’t very well covered, and others are plain carried wrong in the mainstream media. I know that’s a bold claim coming from a college student—but if you do some research and use a bit of logic, you’ll find that a lot of the claims don’t hold water.

This sort of ignorance and misinformation is partially why we don’t actually have a world that follows the Efficient Market Hypothesis (there I go again…), and why we tend to do so many things that seem like they’re good ideas, only to find that they’re disasters.

Ask me sometime about the farm policy sometime. Or patent law. Or String Theory. Well, maybe that’s getting a bit off-topic.