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==> I excerpted some of the best parts of Larry Summers’ recent speech arguing for an end to the ban on crude oil exports. There is some new stuff in this one, if you’ve only been reading my posts on the topic. ==> Nick Rowe writes on everything in this post. If I were a […]

Krugman Has Met the Cockroach, And It Is Krugman

This is just too funny. Ah, sometimes it’s fun to be an economist.

Two Stories on “Rape Culture”

This is another of those posts that I’ll surely regret, but… ==> A few weeks ago the story broke of students who had invented a nail polish that changes colors when exposed to common “date rape” drugs. (The idea is that a woman can stir her drink with her finger and see if her nail […]

Breakin’ the Law, Breakin’ the Law, Non-Compliant Health Plan Style

I came across this in my research on the ACA, just FYI for those of you who buy your own health insurance: [I]n March 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that, through October 1, 2016, state insurance commissioners could permit health insurers to re-enroll individuals and small businesses in existing plans that […]

Potpourri

==> My colleague Dan Simmons (at IER) on the BBC. I told him he should’ve adopted a Paul McCartney accent. ==> This is an interesting graphic contrasting Keynesian with Austrian economics. (HT2 Tom Woods) I could quibble with a few little points but that would be like objecting to the Hayek/Keynes rap video for not […]

Privatize the Borders, Part 2

I continue my discussion of the immigration question. This diagram–and how I tweak it–may be the most important thing I contribute to libertarian evangelism. No need to PayPal me donations, a simple “gracias” will suffice.

Questions From the Mighty Samson

Samson Corwell sent me some good questions on an-cap legal theory but I am too busy to answer. He said I could post them here. Feel free to respond in the comments… An important thing to keep in my mind that a society’s legal system is an altogether separate matter from its form of government […]

Beware Smugness in the Name of Science

In the last hour I was assaulted by two wonderful examples of people misleading their audience while wearing the mantle of objective science. First, I was reading to my son from Max Tegmark’s book, The Mathematical Universe. Tegmark is a physicist at MIT so he is a smart guy. In the begining of the book […]