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Captain Capitalism

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Captain Capitalism is a personal blog at captaincapitalism.blogspot.com about economics and career. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-06, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2012–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog in a thread about favourite individual blogs and in a Match.com fake-ads discussion, citing a post titled "Fractional Reserve Speed Dating". Neither comment says what the writing is like.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Rantings and tirades of a frustrated economist.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I still read some of the classics (surprised nobody mentioned them so far) and also a few newer ones: https://kottke.org/ https://daringfireball.net https://seths.blog https://www.freedomain.com/blog/ https://www.cringely.com https://www.zeldman.com https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com http://quirksmode.org/blog/ http://hypercritical.co

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”
  2. Submitted "Networking" Cannot Replace Skills as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  3. Fractional Reserve Speed Dating http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2013/04/fractional-res...

    Comment linking /2013/04/fractional-reserve-speed-dating.html

    on “Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says”
  4. Submitted The Music School Bubble (2015) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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