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==> This podcast was not nearly as sultry as the image suggests. ==> Ron Paul responds to Paul Krugman’s “Old Man and the CPI.” (My own post coming soon…) ==> Tom Woods interviews Carlos Morales, a former Child Protective Services (CPS) worker. This is really good stuff for filling in a big hole in libertarian […]

Krugman Then Vs. Now, Bask

This guy Dave Smith at EconLog posted the following citation: ==> Krugman, Paul (1994), ‘Past and Prospective Causes of High Unemployment’, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Economic Review, Fourth Quarter, 23-43. That looks like it could be the gift that keeps on giving. However, when I tried to get it, I could only find […]

War Doesn’t Solve the Socialist Calculation Problem

My latest at FEE. An excerpt: The logic of voluntary market arrangements holds in the case of conscription as well. Suppose a foreign nation has amassed millions of soldiers on the border, and is preparing to invade. Wouldn’t even a classical-liberal government have to hold its nose and impose a draft on its citizens, just […]

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==> Alex Tabarrok relays some surprising facts about apartment hunting in Stockholm. ==> Tabarrok twin spin: Here he reviews a book on more effective altruism. ==> Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne was the “mystery guest” (via Skype) at Mises University this year. He pointed us to this Politico article, saying this reporter was the first mainstream […]

Sequester Fun, and Murphy on Liberty Classroom

My latest post at Mises CA shows that Krugman can’t get away with saying Keynesians just needed to be more careful back in 2013, and that had they checked the numbers they would’ve known the sequester was no big whoop. Au contraire, I dug up Jared Bernstein going nuts because right-wingers were ignoring “the arithmetic” […]

More On SSM From Reason

[UPDATE #2: Someone in the comments thought I was being too harsh on Dalmia, that she wasn’t necessarily contradicting her own past views on the subject. Yes, she was. See my update at the bottom of the post.] [UPDATE: The Tenth Amendment Center was similarly nonplussed by Dalmia’s article.] I was minding my own business, […]

Jeff Deist Interviews Me About New Book, New Job, Etc.

“How Do You Reconcile Your Christianity and Libertarianism?”

Such was the question a guy asked me at Mises University (where I spent last week). To be clear, he was also a Christian and (presumably) attracted by libertarianism, but had doubts about how the two fit together. I realize why atheist libertarians, who argue on Facebook with statist Christians, would walk away thinking that […]