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On Fiat and Law

This is my third article on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), Here are the prior ones. Hopefully this one will be better.

3 min readJun 3, 2021

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I Still Believe The National Debt is a Big Problem

I have finished digesting Chapter 3 of The Deficit Myth, and I still don’t agree with its premise that the national debt is not a big…

6 min readMar 27, 2021

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My journey into MMT

Taking a break from my history reading, I wish to once again wear the hat of the armchair macroeconomist.

7 min readMar 19, 2021

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LEO Catchers as a Launch Assist System

I mentioned this topic on this blog a few times:

4 min readAug 19, 2019

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The Value of Low Lunar Orbit Space Stations

I am a fan of space guns as a means of lifting material off a planet and into space. These would work horribly for Earth, but the moon is…

9 min readDec 24, 2017

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The Value of Low Lunar Orbit Space Stations

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Alan

An Essay on AI and Incumbency

This a futurology piece, the study of the future.

4 min readDec 23, 2017

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Practical Understanding of Lunar Cyclers

In the book Artemis by Andy Weir, people are ferried between the Earth and moon aboard space liners that follow “cycler” trajectories. Weir…

6 min readDec 21, 2017

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Practical Understanding of Lunar Cyclers

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Interlocking Crescent Orbital Catchers

This post expands on the space-elevator-alternative launch system that uses an orbital electromagnetic track to catch a suborbital payload…

2 min readOct 8, 2017

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Interlocking Crescent Orbital Catchers

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Alan

Suborbital Transit with Hovering

The mathematically optimal solution for the lowest-fuel trajectory to drive a rocket from one point on a planetary body to another (in…

4 min readOct 8, 2017

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Suborbital Transit with Hovering

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The Ghosts that Haunt Engineering Visionaries

In 2003, I had just started in an engineering program. The pivotal technical core classes were still several semesters in the future, but I…

6 min readJul 24, 2017

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The Ghosts that Haunt Engineering Visionaries

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Alan

Alan

Obligatory analytical writing, online participation account for Medium. Engineering, software, books, space, constant daydreaming.

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