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==> The rise of Queen Tatiana… (Come hear her perform in Nashville before she declares herself Empress.) ==> People like to show videos of bullies/thieves “getting theirs” from somebody with a gun, but I prefer this “Les Mis”-esque story of mercy infinitely more. ==> This lady can defeat Ninjas. If you get bored skip a […]

Just to Be Sure Billy Joel Hates Libertarians

A new video featuring “Bitcoin Girl”: And my own efforts from last year, on a much lower budget:

Krugman’s Kontortions on France

I really wasn’t looking to ding him; I was just doing background to give context to Veronique de Rugy’s interview with Tom Woods. But as I summarized on Twitter: “Krugman: French economy in ’13 shows tax hikes not bad. French economy in ’14 shows austerity awful.” Details here.

The REAL War on Women

My latest at LibertyChat. Excerpts: Last night I attended the Nashville chapter of “Liberty on the Rocks.” The guest speaker was Maggie McNeill, who runs the blog “The Honest Courtesan” which has the subtitle: “Frank commentary from a retired call girl.” I’m sure many readers might read such a description and have a flood of […]

An Honest Comment

From Daniel Usher’s comments on a paper by Kenneth Arrow (both contained in the 1982 Resources for the Future collection, Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy): “I should confess at once that I do not follow Arrow’s mathematics in detail. Though I think I understand what Arrow is doing, I cannot check his […]

Such Clever Young Boys

…we economics bloggers are. Noah Smith had a slow news day and responded to me on the “brain worms” stuff. Perhaps I’ll respond, only for the sports entertainment angle. In the meantime, Twitter is my new medium:

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==> Try to imagine the most absurd possible strategy for the police to protect kids from exploitation. Then read this. ==> Don Boudreaux poses a sobering question to Drug Warriors. ==> I can see how the math works, but for some reason this Tabarrok post seems counterintuitive. Anyway, average stock returns aren’t average. ==> In […]

Has Tabarrok Too Been Seduced by the Sumner Side?

In an otherwise exemplary post, Alex writes: Milton Friedman argued that the Great Depression was caused by a banking collapse that reduced the money stock and decreased velocity leading to a massive failure of aggregate demand that was not countered by the Federal Reserve…Ben Bernanke also put the banking crisis at the center of his […]