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Revisiting Piketty’s Summary of the U.S. Minimum Wage

The good news is that one person responded to my labor of love (i.e. my long comment) on Scott Alexander’s post on Piketty. The bad news is that the guy’s response contained stuff like this: If that’s the worst, most partisan error in Piketty, then I’m not too concerned. If anything I’m more concerned about […]

What I Said to the “Mises Caucus” of the Libertarian Party

This was the speech I gave last Saturday in New Orleans. Here’s Scott Horton’s speech and Tom Woods’ grand finale.

Potpourri

==> At IER, I discuss Doug Ford’s election (in Ontario). He ran on a platform promising to roll back cap-and-trade. ==> Sorry if I already pushed this: In the latest Contra Krugman I go solo and talk about the economics of climate change policy. ==> FEE’s Blinking Lights award, given this year to Nelson Nash. […]

Two Possible Functions of Confession

(This is a Religious post but I was traveling yesterday and won’t be doing anything secular today so…) I was talking with a Catholic friend and the topic of the sacrament of Confession (or Penance) came up. I said that besides the theological arguments for and against, one could argue that the act of confessing […]

A Krugman Kontradiction

Sure, he said “government official” probably to mean “employee in the Executive Branch” but c’mon. This notion that the U.S. Republic suddenly hit the rocks on November 2016 is crazy–especially coming from Krugman, who periodically reminds his readers that the GOP has been this awful all along, it’s not a Trump thing.

More on Krauthammer

Paul Gottfried gives grudging respect to Charles Krauthammer in The American Conservative. An excerpt: The contemporary Right bears little if any resemblance to what it was during the 1950s and 1960s, when it resisted the civil rights revolution, opposed communism as a godless enemy that worshipped state power, and favored traditional social relations. Then in […]

Murphy Twin Spin Podcasts

==> I talk about climate change policy on a Woodsless Contra Krugman. ==> Carlos and I talk about Trump’s playbook for the economy in the latest Lara-Murphy Show.

Potpourri

==> In the latest Contra Krugman, we use a suggestion from one of our Contra Cruise bonus winners, and explain what Krugman won the Nobel Prize for. (Obviously if any technical wizards are listening and think I got something fuzzy, let me know.) ==> He interviewed me over the phone so some of my position […]