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* The SEC’s inspector general has released its report as to why the SEC missed the ball on Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, even though private citizens were warning them for years that he was cooking the books. And it turns out–phew!–that the government wasn’t corrupt, it just made an honest mistake (or twelve). Robert Wenzel […]

Tim Hawkins: The Government Can

Dan Kish sends this video. This isn’t hilarious–I was hoping for at least one more “in-the-know” stanza–but I’m just so happy that the Internet is allowing moderately talented people to finally break the statist monopoly. BTW I was checking some of this guy’s other bits. Here’s a peek at evangelicals when the kids are home […]

Rizzo Joins the Fray

Mario Rizzo comes late to the fight, and sees Tyler Cowen bloodied and beaten on the ground, surrounded by Pete Boettke, Steve Horwitz, David Henderson, Arnold Kling, and me. (Henderson and I are high-fiving while Horwitz gives a chest-bump to Boettke.) Mario asks what all the fuss is about, and we explain that Tyler still […]

Ominous Signs for USD From Geithner’s Bankers

Robert Wenzel has reported two disturbing events that portend for a falling dollar. The first is the Chinese central bank’s decision to buy about $50 billion worth of bonds issued by the IMF that are denominated in “special drawing rights” (SDRs), which is basically a basket of world currencies. (This is the first time the […]

Robert Wenzel Reviews the San Fran Mises Circle

Say what you will about him, but Robert Wenzel has a good eye: A Bob Murphy economic speech is like none other you will ever hear. It’s a stand up routine which I’m sure will eventually get him at the Improv on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. You really laugh so much that you almost forget […]

New World Record: The Worst Economics Article Ever

In an irritable mood, I once penned an essay for Mises.org titled, “The Worst Economics Article Ever?” It was a critique of a plea to “buy local” that I read in New York’s L Magazine. Well the young lady who wrote that particular piece–which made very infrequent references to Bastiat–can rest easy, because she has […]

Glenn Greenwald On the Permanent US Warfare State

This is a great post; here are some excerpts. Note that the links about US military operations need to be scrolled to be believed, and the bolding is mine: There was a time…when the U.S. pretended that it viewed war only as a “last resort,” something to be used only when absolutely necessary to defend […]