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My Response to R Street’s Appeal to Conservatives to Support Carbon Tax

I was unusually saucy in this IER piece. Some excerpts: Rather than reiterating our list of technical objections, let me in this post instead simply step back and ask: What is the point of studies such as the R Street proposal? It’s not as if President Obama or Gina McCarthy are making a substantive offer […]

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Nomination

I put forward my own name for Best Troll on an Economics Blog in 2016. Here’s but one example. Now look, there are some master trolls who hang out at Landsburg’s blog, and there are arguable professionals at Marginal Revolution. So I’m not asking that I win. All I ask, is that you don’t ding […]

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Your Father Knows You Need These Things

I recently had some personal experiences and found this passage very satisfying. (It was the topic of the Bible study I do in Lubbock and it really came in handy.) So I searched YouTube to see if I could find a nice video, maybe an animated Bible story or something, but instead I found this […]

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Sarandon Is a True Progressive

I can respect Susan Sarandon, even though (of course) I disagree with a lot of her policy views. But I think this is incredibly brave of her. So I respect her the same way I respect Glenn Greenwald, who was totally anti-Bush because of the war and civil liberties, and then was consistent when Obama […]

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Johnson Supporters Inventing Their Own Reality

I did some soul-searching recently asking myself, “Is it true what they say? Do I just go out of my way to tear down the best chance for liberty in this election cycle?” And no, that’s not what I’m doing. In my professional outlets, I don’t engage in libertarian catfighting. I have a podcast (co-hosted […]

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Contra Krugman: We Take on Hillary’s Promises About Family Leave and Mental Health

BTW, I am now going to call her “Hillary” because her own campaign site does it. (I explain in the episode.) Here’s the link. If you don’t listen to these religiously, let me plug this as a particularly good one. Jokes, economics, Krugman Kontradictions… what more do you want? By the end of the episode […]

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Developing Story: Leading Market Monetarist Rebukes Christian

Recently Scott Sumner focused his attention on 1946 (here and here), which (he claimed) was quite embarrassing for Keynesians. This is the opening of his second post, which gives a flavor of his analysis: Over at Econlog I did a post discussing the austerity of 1946. The Federal deficit swung from over 20% of GDP […]

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Happy Birthday Mises

My short tribute, focusing on the economics of war.

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