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Palmer vs. Woods: Entangling Alliances At Fault Yet Again

I mean this with sincerity, I am not linking to this because I want any Free Advice regulars to jump in. But I know that I derive entertainment when I see other people throwing down over ridiculous things, so I thought you might too. Steve Horwitz offers a pretty good summary of the fight so […]

Halloween Outlook on the Economy

This actually had nothing to do with Halloween; Anthony Gregory asked me for a general economic outlook piece a while ago, and I just got around to doing it. I realized it had run because all of a sudden my inbox was filling up with requests for radio interviews. Surely my blog post on talking […]

I’m Neither Smart Nor Devious Enough to Work for Goldman Sachs

What the heck does this even mean? Goldman Sachs Group is in talks to buy millions of dollars of tax credits from Fannie Mae, but the U.S. Treasury could block the deal, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Goldman hopes to win approval this week, but the administration is wary about approving a deal […]

Faux Economic Profundities

There are a lot of faux economic profundities floating around. I don’t remember who said this one–I’m thinking I read it in a Landsburg book in Barnes & Noble, but I could be wrong–but I have in mind assertions like this: If you never miss a flight, you spend too much time in airports.Wow, that’s […]

Potpourri

* Mario Rizzo deconstructs the “contributions” to the 3Q GDP figures: “[A]t least 2.5 percentage points of the 3.5 percent increase are suspect on their own terms. And then there are the future costs to bear.” * Not only did Paul Krugman (or his lackey) approve my comment on this post, but it was the […]

Isn’t a Christian Better Off Dead?

In the comments of a recent blog post–and I’m sorry but I can’t seem to find it–a reader said something like: “You can’t possibly believe this religious stuff, right? I mean, my five-year-old showed how silly it was the other day when he said, ‘If you believe in heaven, why not just kill yourself and […]

Blog Bask

OK I’m getting bugged clicking on the same old list. I need to find a new place where the kids are hip. Regular Free Advice readers have a good sense of my tastes, sense of humor, and so forth. If you could name just one blog that you think I should be checking daily, what […]

Now I Know How Cliff Clavin Felt

I’m so conservative I probably wouldn’t have risked it all on the Daily Double… Duh. (Every econoblogger is featuring this, but I think I saw it first from Boettke. And this is the reference in my post title. UPDATE: I just noticed a mistake at around 4:22 in the Cheers clip. Amateurs.)