Archive for February, 2011
Corporate Welfare Polka
I’m not sure this woman would even want my endorsement–should I send her a free copy of the Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism?–but I heard this on the low-budget indie station in the car and thought it was worth re-posting. (Note the audio was better in the version I heard, but this gets the idea […]
Read moreKnow the Word
Today in church they went over one of my favorite Bible stories, when a 12-year-old Jesus was found asking questions of the teachers of the Law. I love that story because it indicates that Jesus didn’t come out of the womb omniscient, but was fully man and had to grow into His role. This reminds […]
Read moreWeekend Reading Assignment on Option Pricing
Back in high school I was a Star Trek geek. I remember one episode where they capture one of the Borg and come up with a plan to feed him a brain teaser that’s so complex that it will cause the Borg collective mind to explode. (Picard eventually quashes the idea because he apparently believes […]
Read moreArmy Uses Jedi Mind Tricks on Al Franken
Robert Wenzel tips us off to this incredible story from Rolling Stone: The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in “psychological operations” to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was […]
Read moreBryan Caplan Must Be Stopped…No Matter the Cost
[UPDATE: I took the ellipses out of the URL so now you can comment.] (That is an old school Transformers movie reference…) Not only has Bryan continued to preach his doctrine that “parents don’t matter” at EconLog, he now wants to elevate his views to penumbra status: In one of my talks at the 2011 […]
Read moreMurphy vs. Famous Keynesian
Ah, but it’s the poor man’s Krugman, Brad DeLong. (At this point I can’t be accountable for jokes at the expense of DeLong, since I can plead insanity in my defense. I couldn’t help it, guys. Voices are telling me to rip on him, honest.) Anyway, I was foolish and decided to defend Sasha Volokh […]
Read moreInstitute for Energy Research Publicly Calls to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Some of my energetic critics often claim otherwise, but for the record, IER is against all government subsidies to energy sources, whether fossil fuels or “alternatives”: In order to truly level the playing field and allow entrepreneurs to serve consumers with the best and cheapest energy options, the federal government doesn’t need to give handouts […]
Read moreAc-cent-tchu-ate the Positive: The Fed’s Obscure Rule Change
Today at Mises I walk through my understanding of the Fed’s January 6 accounting rule change. My take is that the Fed’s description sounded like no big deal, because they implicitly focused on the treatment of earnings. What they didn’t mention was that their rule change shielded them from losses. One thing: Some analysts have […]
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