Potpourri
* Walter Block can die now, after this moving tribute from Lew Rockwell.
* What it looks like when Brad DeLong says, “Yeah, I was unfair to Ludwig von Mises.” As an added bonus, the concession was wrung by Gene Callahan! (It’s not April 1, right?)
* A lot of people liked this Tom Woods blog post about people supporting candidates besides Ron Paul.
* Physics geeks should be aware that there are a lot of cool videos of Richard Feynman on YouTube. I just stumbled across them recently.
* I think this news from Europe totally vindicates my recent Mises Circle talk about the bankers overriding sovereignty in the continent.
* Brian Doherty apparently thinks he’s doing me favors by shining a spotlight on yet another article where I warned of the inflationary wolf. (I give my excuses in the comments of this post.)
To be honest, Gene is usually pretty good when it comes to Mises. I have found that Gene usually goes after the libertarian economists more than the classical liberal economists. I don’t know what his personal feelings are regarding Austrian economics as a whole, but it is quite clear that Gene rejects libertarianism outright (esp. Rothbardianism).
Here’s something funny:
http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2012/02/ol-kruggie-is-at-it-again.html#comments
Didn’t LK cut-and-paste this exact same set of data (which he apparently cribbed from a Bruce Bartlett op-ed piece) a few weeks ago here, only then claimed that “4” was a reasonable value for the multiplier, instead of “3” now? (Nice to see O’Driscoll slap him down on bringing up state and local spending.)
LK is a total tool.