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Can You Stand It? More Climategate

Joe Romm hosts a conference call featuring Michael Mann (of hockey stick fame), Gavin Schmidt (RealClimate), and Princeton’s Michael Oppenheimer. I am not allowing myself to listen to the audio, since I have backed-up work from my last-minute trip to DC to appear on a panel discussing renewables. (I will post the YouTube of that […]

Murphy Twin Spin

I think I’ve probably covered most of the points already on Free Advice, but maybe some of you have relatives or co-workers who will read an “official” argument and you want to forward either of the below. * I criticize the Administration’s “stimulus” record on job creation in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. * My thoughts on […]

Who Said It?

There is no doubt that the world monetary and banking system is unsound, and would be unbelievably better off if governments returned these vital institutions to the free market. For their part, my…critics have always agreed that tariffs and other government barriers to trade are immoral and inefficient. Thus we all agree on the theoretical […]

Yet Another Murphy Sermon

In the comments at Mario Rizzo’s Mises.org guest blog on “Peace,” I wrote: Mario, Thank you for the courageous post. Some might think that is an odd term to use, but it takes courage to say what 95% know is the right thing yet could be construed as “wimpy.” I think what all of us–and […]

Mario Rizzo Calls for Ceasefire

And he leaves the safety of his own blog to do so. As goofy as it might sound for me to say that, I am serious. It makes a difference that he posted it at Mises as opposed to just at ThinkMarkets or TheAustrianEconomists. Here it is: I am not talking about peace in the […]

Cringeworthy: Barbara Boxer Tries to Bully Black Chamber of Commerce

At lunch today one of my IER coworkers alluded to the fiasco when the head of the Black Chamber of Commerce (Harry Alford) stood up to Barbara Boxer. I didn’t know what he was talking about and he gleefully promised to send me the YouTube. The BCC had sponsored a study showing that the Waxman-Markey […]

Cute Tiger Cub

This has nothing to do with economics or libertarianism. I just wanted something else at the top of my blog.

Tyler Cowen Predicts Lew Rockwell Secession From the "Serious" "Reasonable" Libertarians

The video below is Tom Palmer’s book presentation, with comments from Tyler Cowen (starting around 26:00). I haven’t actually watched the video yet, but Robert Wenzel assures us it will be fun. The only thing more important than Climategate is a libertarian economist bashing Lew Rockwell!!