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==> Although it wasn’t his main point, Noah Smith mentions that Krugman is unfair with anybody who disagreed with his Keynesian model back in 2008-09: If those people didn’t change their views, Krugman mocks them. Yet even if they do change their views–so long as they don’t say “Wow Paul was right”–Krugman still mocks them. […]

MSNBC Drives Up Price of Softballs With Interview of Jonathan Gruber on “Stupidity” Remark

I’m sure if Arthur Laffer or Stephen Moore got caught on video saying American voters were stupid, that MSNBC would have an interview saying, “Your position is nuanced though right?” Check this out, it’s astonishing how in-the-tank for Obama some of our outlets are. Yes, Fox hates Obama, but the love from MSNBC is just […]

Gruber Is OK With “Non-Transparency” Because Americans Are Stupid and He Wanted Bill to Pass

You think I’m paraphrasing unfairly, don’t you? It’s short, watch this. It’s Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economist who was one of the go-to guys modeling and touting the Affordable Care Act.

Commentary on Romans 13

Another libertarian Christian and I are devoting ourselves to examining the issue of Romans 13, since it obviously is the single biggest stumbling block for our views. We both agreed upfront that we would try to guard ourselves from reading in what we wanted to see, imposing our own ideological views on Paul. The first […]

Jeff Deist Interviews Me

For the podcast for the Mises Institute. We mostly talk about financial markets and the Fed.

The Infinite Banking Institute YouTube Channel

I’ll periodically remind you guys that if you’re interested in Nelson Nash’s “Infinite Banking Concept,” you should subscribe to our YouTube channel. I recently conducted a long interview with Nelson, and over the coming weeks we’ll be posting the best excerpts of it. We’ve already posted a bunch, but many more are coming. Here’s the […]

The Vacuity of Scott Sumner’s Approach to Monetary Policy

My latest at Mises CA, sparked by Scott responding to Tyler Cowen on “causality.” The punchline: …I want to point out an odd feature of Sumner’s worldview, which partly explains why it is (arguably) vacuous as an “explanation” of recessions. For the sake of argument, suppose Janet Yellen announces next Monday: “I have been reading the […]