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Clive Crook on DeLong

I don’t care so much about the actual argument they are having (over Krugman, no less), but I thought this was funny from Clive Crook (HT2 Scott Sumner): Brad DeLong has commented on my beef with Paul Krugman. I’m reluctant to engage, to be honest, because his post exemplifies the intemperance I’m addressing. Once an admirer, […]

Another Point in Favor of Private, Competing Police Services

The stuff coming out about the Cleveland police department on these abducted girls is pretty damning… Here’s just some of it: Lugo said about two years ago his sister told him she heard a woman pounding on a window at Castro’s home as if she needed help. When his sister looked up, she saw a […]

Charles Ramsey Interview

This guy is awesome. The interview just builds and builds to the hilarious climax.

An Update on My Work With the “Infinite Banking Concept”

I am running around because I’m about to go on a trip, but I wanted to drop a quick note to explain a major project I’ve been working on over the past year. I am a co-creator of The IBC Practitioner Program, a training program for financial professionals in Austrian economics and the “Infinite Banking […]

Two Views (?) On Using Bets to Test Economic Theories

Back in December, when Brad DeLong said I needed to study at the feet of Krugman because I lost an inflation bet to David R. Henderson, and then Bryan Caplan objected to the tone of the statements, Daniel Kuehn wrote: I thought the whole point of betting on predictions was to weed out BS and […]

Potpourri

==> An interesting story of a professor who purposely let his class “cheat” on a Game Theory exam in order to teach game theory. ==> Can’t remember if I already linked to this: The formal details of my June 3 debate with Warren Mosler, at Columbia University, moderated by John Carney of CNBC. (Yes it’s […]

Obama vs. “Jefferson”

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” — Often attributed to Jefferson, but apparently spuriously.

Grabbing DeLong’s Bank Account With Both Hands

[UPDATE 1 and 2 below.] Bryan Caplan discusses a wager between Noah Smith and Brad DeLong: If, at any time between 7/28/2012 and 7/28/2015, core consumer prices, as recorded in the FRED database series CPILFESL, are up more than 5% in the preceding 12 months, and if over the same 1-year period monthly U3 unemployment […]