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The Two Thieves Crucified With Jesus: Encapsulates Everything

My pastor today said that the encounter between Jesus and the two thieves as they all hung on crosses crystallized everything he had been trying to say throughout the sermon. I’ve always loved this story as well, because it hits on so many crucial aspects of my views on redemption. So here is Luke 23: […]

Don’t Mess With Mises

On the plane back from Canada I was going through the relevant portion of The Theory of Money and Credit for my online class. I thought this passage was pretty funny: The most important results of research in the social sciences leave the multitude apathetic, but any set of figures awakens its interest. Its history […]

Murphy on Stossel on SEC

Yikes with all of my traveling I almost forgot to tell you that my clip with Stossel is supposed to air tonight (Thursday) at 9pm. I think I’m the second guest of the episode. Also check this out–it alone makes my bondage to Mark Zuckerberg worthwhile.

Insider Trading Bask

Any examples of clearly absurd prosecutions for “insider trading”? I’m going on John Stossel’s show and that might come up.

Mankiw vs. Rothbard

This was a Mises Daily I had last week that I forgot to post. An excerpt: In a recent New York Times piece, bestselling textbook author, Harvard professor, and Mitt Romney advisor Greg Mankiw offered four principles of tax reform that are almost universally endorsed by professional economists, even extremely free-market ones. In the present […]

A Subset of Frequently Asked Questions About My Christian Faith

Before I jump into today’s post, the standard disclaimer: This is narcissistic for two reasons: (a) People in the comments of previous posts usually frame it as, “But Bob, you still haven’t explained how you can reconcile your faith with objection #12…?” and because (b) I am quite an amateur in these matters and don’t […]

Big Government “Conservatism” Doesn’t Work in Foreign Policy, Either

Someone on Facebook posted the below, presumably because the person likes Ron Paul and wants to out every other Republican candidate: But I’m more interested in the spectacular failure of Gingrich’s analysis. (And note, his complaint is that Ronald Reagan isn’t doing enough abroad, in his role as Command-in-Chief of the mighty U.S. military.) Gingrich […]

Megan McArdle on the Heartland Institute / Peter Gleick Affair

Wow this is pretty interesting. I kept hearing allusions to “fakegate” and leaked/stolen documents from the Heartland Institute during the last week, but I was too busy to really read up on it. Well today I spent a good hour catching up, and holy cow there are some interesting twists and turns. As the Dude […]