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==> Gene Callahan sent me this very interesting piece on Bob Dylan and Christian Zionism. ==> Rob Bradley gets a letter in the WSJ about the Paris talks. ==> Apparently you can’t read the Senate torture report if you’re in the Executive branch. ==> Come see Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist and me in Houston […]

It’s Safer Doing Economics From the Armchair

For Thanksgiving I was in Rochester, and went to see Steve Landsburg give a lecture. (It was great, by the way. I’m sure the students didn’t realize how much better his lecture on two-part pricing was than the typical one.) But beforehand I tried his hobby (click on the thumbnails for better photos): So now, […]

Contra Krugman Episode 11

Tom and I take on Krugman’s absurd spinning of the horrible ObamaCare news that has come out this month.

Old Obama Footage on Paving the Way to Single Payer

A lot of people–even prominent libertarian economists–have told me they think I’m paranoid for believing that at least some of the architects of the Affordable Care Act knew full well it would lead to a single payer system. (One of their arguments is that the federal government can’t do anything right, how could they pull […]

A Review of “Arm Yourselves” by Jordan Page

Jordan Page is a singer-songwriter who made a big splash in the liberty movement during the Ron Paul campaign. (Here’s an article on Page and his connection to the Ron Paul movement in the Baltimore Sun.) I first saw Jordan perform at Porcfest (I think in 2011). Jason Osborne, the guy who walked me over […]

Trying to Pass the Market Monetarist Turing Test

[UPDATE below.] Suppose someone asks you, “What was the stance of US monetary policy in mid-1980? Pretend you are a Market Monetarist answering.” BOB TRYING TO PASS AS A MARKET MONETARIST: First thing, we would not look at interest rates; that is a totally misleading indicator. As Sumner tells us in this post, “Interest rates […]

ObamaCare’s Not Got a Lot to Be Thankful For This Year

That post title may not be fully grammatical… Anyway I had to do a bunch of this research in preparation for this week’s Contra Krugman (not released yet), so I wrote an op ed that was placed in the Daily Caller. Makes for great Thanksgiving Day conversation. And remember, if you want the definitive explanation […]

Scott Danger Sumner

(Get it?) Am I the only one who finds this an odd set of statements from the resident monetary expert at EconLog? I’ll add my bold so you see where I’m coming from. Everyone seems to assume that the zero lower bound is the key problem. But how do we know this? Has the lower […]