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Yet More on Rules vs. Discretion in Monetary Policy

==> Steve Horwitz weighs in. ==> This was actually one of the few things I thought was cool in macro class in grad school. So let me reproduce the patronizing comment I left at Daniel Kuehn’s blog where he and I have taken the battle: DK [Daniel Kuehn] wrote: I suppose I was reading “do […]

Potpourri

==> Rob Bradley has some neat quotes from Milton Friedman, some of which I’ve never seen before. ==> Arthur Laffer and Ford Scudder lay out the looming “fiscal cliff.” Some big numbers for tax-rate increases that are currently in the cards. ==> The grand shi strategy of Ron Paul. ==> The mischievous von Pepe sends […]

Should We Label Paul Krugman as a “Free-Market Economist”?

Yes kids, once again we return to a familiar theme here at Free Advice: trying to use evidence to get Daniel Kuehn to change his opinion on something involving Paul Krugman. Now many of you will say, “Bob, what’s up? You’ve written a book that has often been (erroneously) described as a NYT bestseller, you […]

Austerity Bask

OK kids, put your thinking caps on. I just spent an hour on the phone with a journalist for a household outlet, who is trying to give the “rest of the story” regarding the so-called fiscal cliff. He is saying that the conventional treatment of this story is, “Oh my gosh, if the government cuts […]

Two Views of Krugman

[UPDATE at end.] Daniel Kuehn is upset that Don Boudreaux leads his readers to believe that Milton Friedman and people like him have a monopoly on rule-based monetary policy. Daniel writes: Don, I think, is trying to pull the wool over his readers eyes here. The consensus for a long time now has been that […]

Singing “Twist and Shout” at Mises U 2012

Here it is. I gave this disclaimer on Facebook: I swear these smart phones are out to get me. I think it sounded much better live. My bit of independent evidence (since Tom Woods et al. would just be nice to me) is that some random Auburn U girl comes up afterwards and says, “You’ve […]

After Further Review, I Still Don’t Think Jesus Wants His Followers to Kill Gay People

In the comments of my last post (we missed a week because of blog host shenanigans), Ken B. provided links (here and here) that show Christians themselves wondering about the authenticity of the famous gospel story in which Jesus says, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” I also talked with two […]

How Would a Free-Market Society Provide Law and Military Defense?

We answer these central questions in my new online Mises Academy class, which starts August 1. Summer pricing: the 6-week class is only $59! Full infomercial here.