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Piotr’s Amazing Impressions

My brother made me aware of this guy. Some of these are amazing, especially his Adam West (starting around 3:58):

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“Yes, Give In to Your Annoyance, and Your Conversion to the DeLong Side Will Be Complete”

OK kids, I just zapped a total troll comment left on a recent post that had absolutely nothing to do with the post, and involved merely a familiar jab at another economist on a position that I have never endorsed. Am I going down the slippery slope of total fascism in the comment moderation? Let’s […]

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Truth Is Stranger Than Bryan Caplan’s Fiction

From my new post at Mises Canada: Caplan then goes on in his post to lament the odd fact that people do not respond to this potential of trillions of dollars in global wealth (via labor mobility) the way Caplan claims they would respond to the discovery of trillions of dollars of Leonium buried under […]

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The Policeman Is Your…

This is making the rounds. Just watch the first full 1:05. You can see that yes, sometimes the police must use violence in order to maintain Law & Order, but that it bitterly grieves them to do so.

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MK Lords and Tatiana Moroz Talk Music, the Fed, and Bitcoin

Meghan and Tatiana were two of the stars of Porcfest 2013. In this interview they cover a range of topics. Tatiana explains that she used to be liberal until she learned economics from a certain Republican politician–and it wasn’t Newt Gingrich. Not that you asked, but this is my favorite of Tatiana’s original songs:

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This Lady Could Be an Econ Blogger

I just had this conversation with a customer service rep from a garbage removal company: RPM: Hi, I just moved out of my house, and you guys had been picking up from my house, so I want to make sure you know there’s a new owner there. LADY: Well did you call us to switch […]

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Unit Humor

I just tweeted this: Guy walks into a bar in Minnesota: “Damn it’s minus 40 degrees out there!” The bartender says “Celsius or Fahrenheit?” Guy answers, “Both.” Follow me @BobMurphyEcon…and let your life begin.

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Pile-On On Krugman

Alex Tabarrok has delivered the most crushing blows regarding Krugman’s major flip-flop on whether 2013 has any relevance for the Keynesian commentary, by bringing in Krugman’s commentary from April 2013 on why austerity in the US is just a tad less than in Europe. (This totally Kontradicts Krugman’s recent excuse that US austerity wasn’t anywhere […]

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