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Ron Paul on Iran

Wow I hadn’t seen this clip. (Lew Rockwell and Scott Horton referred to the Paul/Santorum exchange during an interview.) For those who can’t understand why people get so fired up about Ron Paul, it’s because of stuff like this. This is the furthest thing from a smooth politician, flattering the American public to win their […]

Krugman Has Been Onto Us For Years

Here is a Slate article from way back in 1996. I didn’t think he could find Austria on a map back then. In an article trying to explain the persistence of supply-side economics, Krugman wrote: The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of […]

A Note on Emails

A lot of you occasionally send me emails through the blog submission form. That is great, and I welcome them. I read them all too (eventually). But I am in the (un)fortunate position where I just can’t justify using my scarce office time to answer them all. So, if you send me something (like a […]

Ozone, Krugman, and Landsburg

The White House recently backed off a proposal to tighten ozone regulations. (The proposal was really absurd. It would have required possibly 0.06 ppm, or 60 parts per billion–the equivalent of less than a cup of water in an Olympic-sized swimming pool. The EPA itself said that up to 96 percent of the monitored counties […]

Two Gospel Episodes That Always Puzzled Me

I recently read over these passages, and remembered that they had always puzzled me (for different reasons). First we have Jesus healing a blind man, as is His wont (Mk 8: 22-26): 22 Then He came to Bethsaida; and they brought a blind man to Him, and begged Him to touch him. 23 So He […]

Potpourri

* I don’t care if you’re a Keynesian, if you tell people they should read my blog, you’re very likely to get a link from me. Oh, it’s a post about the Broken Window. I think we’re almost done discussing it…almost. * David R. Henderson posts a funny Samuelson anecdote. (Note: I was making a […]

Doug French: An Angel or Devil?

I am very underwater on my house and I would like to believe Doug French when he says I should walk away, but I can’t help but feel that it would be dishonest if I did so. Doug has a bunch of good arguments explaining that the mortgage market is run by the government, that […]

Post-Game Show

Well Karl Smith and I entered the Econ Cage Match of DEATH (his term), and I’m here to tell about it, so… In all seriousness, if you had meant to watch the debate live and just forgot about it (or if you actually have responsibilities or something), you can still register and watch the recording. […]