Consulting by RPM || Free Advice Blog

On the “Big Oil Tax Loopholes”

I have a commentary at the Institute for Energy Research (IER) on the Administration’s recent efforts to stick it to the big oil companies. An excerpt: The rhetoric concerning the domestic manufacturing deduction is particularly silly. Back in 2004 Congress changed the tax code to encourage companies to keep their production activities within the United [...]

Come to Porcfest 2012!

Check out this promotional poster for the Comedy Roast that will occur on Friday, June 22 at this year’s Porcfest event: Here is my write-up of Porcfest 2011. If you can get there, you should. All the details for this year’s Porcfest are here. UPDATE: Duh, here is my performance as a Roaster at last [...]

Potpourri

==> I missed this when he first posted it, but Silas Barta has a good contribution on the broken window debate, and how it relates to “recalculation.” I think if Tyler Cowen had written the exact same blog post (scattered with references to classic papers in the literature) people would be doubled over at the [...]

Minimum Wage

This will be the last ECON MOMENT until I experiment with the mic situation. I realize this sounds like I’m being huffy, but I don’t feel like reading a bunch of comments from people offering to buy me a mic every time I post one of these. Hopefully by the weekend I will see how [...]

See Bob, Tom Woods, and Other Nutjobs From the Convenience of Your Computer

Tomorrow I will participate in a live Q&A session. I start at 8:30pm eastern, then Israel Andserson, then Tom Woods, then Michael Bolding. Details here.

Why Conservatives and Progressives Are Both Right and Wrong

ECON MOMENT: Unintended Consequences

This one is actually somewhat interesting. Like, even a 7th grader might be able to bear it. It starts out with armed robbery.

ECON MOMENT: Oil Speculators and Iran

Instead of procrastinating by reading other people’s banal blog posts, I have found a new way to keep from earning income directly…