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My Response to John Cochrane (Who Was Responding to Krugman)

========== Cochrane Threatens Austrians More Than Krugman Ever DidBy Robert P. Murphy Although some Austrian economists (e.g. Mario Rizzo) expressed disappointment with Chicago University economist John Cochrane’s response to Paul Krugman’s infamous NYT Magazine piece, for the most part the people on “my side” have high-fived Cochrane for kicking sand in Krugman’s face. This is […]

Potpourri

* I explain that civil libertarians should be as skeptical of the War on Carbon as they (correctly) are about the War on Terror. * I don’t know if they officially announced it yet, but I am an adviser to the Steve Poizner campaign. He’s running for governor of California. For those who care about […]

Gene Callahan on Methodology

Unfortunately the player froze up 7 minutes into his talk, but this looks like it will be a good one, especially for those of you who (a) think Gene is an idiot and/or (b) don’t understand how someone could doubt materialism. Let me repeat my own history: Several years ago I used to be a […]

Jim Rogers: Currency Crisis Coming

I am not going to be able to blog much the next few days, as my “real work” has piled up while I’ve been galloping around the country on the Magical Mises Tour. (Next stop: Greenville, S.C.) For Seattle’s festivities, I’ll post the video when it’s available. There were celebrity appearances by Vijay I-quit-Google-to-campaign-for-Ron-Paul Boyapati, […]

Mario Rizzo: "Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right / Here I Am, Stuck in the Middle With Lu"

Mario Rizzo decides once again that macroeconomics is too important to be left to the macroeconomists. He is disappointed with Paul Krugman and John Cochrane as they sum up the great intellectual divide. If I may paraphrase: Krugman says that the “freshwater” economists (at places like Chicago) are idiots for failing to see that market […]

Say What You Will, Charlie Sheen Isn’t Giving Obama a Pass

I know, I know, Charlie Sheen is probably not an expert on structural engineering. I offer the video below (HT2LRC) for two reasons: (1) I think we should acknowledge that Charlie Sheen is at least holding Obama’s feet to the fire as well; let’s hope he ups the ante when Obama continues to ignore him. […]

"How Does That King David Always Manage to Beat Us?"

That’s what I imagine the Philistine commanders asking themselves. Whether he’s a young boy taking out a Goliath of a man with a stone and a slingshot, or whether he’s leading his outnumbered armies to victory after victory, it must have seemed to his enemies that David–father of the wisest man in history, Solomon, and […]

Does Larry Kudlow Read LRC?

Don’t worry kids, I will get over myself soon enough and stop harping on my virgin CNBC appearance. Believe it or not, I actually just watched it in its entirety for the first time a few minutes ago (late Friday night); I was really busy packing etc. after the taping and couldn’t relish it. Anyway, […]