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Lara-Murphy Interview With Scott Horton

Because Scott is one of the leading foreign policy experts from a libertarian perspective, we decided to make his interview in the LMR publicly available. Scott talks about central banking and war, and then specifically about Afghanistan and the Iran deal.

Another Bold Sumner Thesis

UPDATE: See my remarks below. Say what you will about Scott Sumner, he’s not afraid to take on conventional wisdom, even when it sure seems to be backed up by staring-us-in-the-face evidence. For example, Scott believes the Federal Reserve adopted an incredibly tight monetary policy and that’s the fundamental explanation for the financial crisis and […]

Krugman Unwittingly Compliments Conservatives

I really think this is a case where Krugman’s argument blew up in his face. The Trump Administration came back to the idea of subsidizing nuclear and coal-fired power plants, and so Krugman naturally screamed hypocrisy. Yet the link Krugman gave to the news story showed why conservatives were being consistent on this; I spell […]

Potpourri

==> The latest Contra Krugmans: Episode 140 on fascism in Europe, and Episode 141 on the Swiss “sovereign money” referendum (i.e. 100% reserve banking). ==> OK in this David Roberts column for Vox, he is reviewing Infinity War. (Caution: Major spoilers in the review.) I can’t quote him here since I don’t want to spoil […]

Jordan Peterson on Peter Pan Syndrome

I just saw some guy on Twitter proudly declaring that he was a libertarian even though he likes CNN and hates Jordan Peterson; he ended his tweet with “fight me.” I scrolled through his feed (partly to see how many followers he had; it was not pretty) and saw him RT a meme that said […]

Was the City of Babel (Site of the Famous Tower) the First Kingdom?

A friend sent me this interesting essay talking about the Bible’s treatment of political government. The author acknowledges that traditionally, Christians think the Bible establishes God’s support of the State as an essential institution for the maintenance of justice. (The most obvious passage is Romans 13. Here’s one of many posts I did on that […]

Trump Gives the World Financial Information; Free-Market Economists Outraged

Folks, this post is about 65% tongue-in-cheek. Anyway, Scott Sumner called it literally an “outrage” that Trump tweeted that he was looking forward to the jobs report at 7:21am, when the numbers weren’t officially released until 8:30am. When arguing with someone in the comments (who had claimed this actually helps the average Joe, because it […]