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Feds May Move Against Nevada Rancher This Weekend

I don’t have too much commentary to offer on this developing story of federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials and their standoff with a Nevada rancher; if you aren’t familiar with the details, you really should watch this short news clip. Beyond the particular issues of the standoff and the eerie memories of Ruby […]

Yet More Positive Externalities From an Alien Invasion

Bill Clinton explains:

Supreme Irony

I know, I know, I’ve been blogging too much about Krugman lately, but this is too delicious to pass up, and I am pretty sure only I have the ability and desire to pinpoint such hilarity. Let’s get this over with as quickly as possible: ==> Ezra Klein has his inaugural post for his new […]

Billy Joel and Jimmy Fallon Sing “Lion Sleeps Tonight”

I have been trying to contain my jealousy since Jimmy Fallon has been living my dream lately, doing decent enough singing that he produces awesome clips with famous musicians. (E.g. look at the first minute of his “history of rap” with Justin Timberlake.) But this is just flat-out cool:

Murphy Talk at Texas Bitcoin Conference

Somebody put up the audio of my talk at the Texas Bitcoin conference. I thought the best contribution I could make was to explain to the evangelists why the orthodox libertarians were going to resist their message. So this is mostly about Austrian monetary theory, not Bitcoin. Also note that this only captures my main […]

Milton Friedman on Ford Pinto

Major Freedom reminds us (in the comments of the previous post) of this classic exchange. Without realizing it, I think my recent thoughts on GM are basically just channeling Friedman. I am too squeamish about confrontations like this; I literally can’t even watch the whole video because I am embarrassed for the kid.

Thoughts on GM and Michael Moore

At Mises Canada. An excerpt: Suppose years ago when they discovered the problem, GM had contacted all of the 2.6 million customers driving the vehicles with a faulty switch and told them, “We think 13 of you will end up dying because of the faulty switch. The problem is, we don’t know which 13–if we […]

Potpourri

==> This is Part II of my discussion of IER’s “Comment” (submitted to the feds) on the Social Cost of Carbon. If you’re a climate change nerd, this one’s for you. ==> Richard Ebeling’s brief remarks on the South Royalton conference (teleconference at the recent conference in Auburn). ==> This is so awesome: a story […]