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Yet More on Hoover

Assuming it doesn’t get zapped, I have the first (and snarky) comment at Krugman’s blog post invoking the tightwad Hoover to discredit fiscal conservatives.

Brad DeLong’s Distortion of Hoover Record Reaches New High (Low)

Folks, I really have been trying to avoid accusations of dishonesty. As someone who has made strong claims that he’s later come to regret, I know that it is always safest to merely attribute intellectual error to someone who is completely (and demonstrably) misleading his audience on an important point. (Note that one can mislead […]

Greg Mankiw Rises to the Challenge

This is great… I’ve always thought Greg Mankiw’s blog was pretty useless, since he basically links to other things with one-liners. But lately he’s come out of his shell to foil the dark forces of the Obama economic team. In this post I want to clarify exactly what Mankiw is saying regarding recessions and future […]

Tom Woods Spreads Scurrilous Rumors About Me

I am frankly shocked by this video. The guy from Young Americans for Liberty asks Tom Woods if he will run for office, and Tom does the classic, “How bad do you guys want me?” And then he follows up with a completely fabricated tale. Everyone knows that I am a teetotaler. P.S. If you […]

The Bogus Emancipation Proclamation

Wow. I knew that the Emancipation Proclamation was a farce, but I don’t think I’d ever seen the whole text. Aristos (in response to a comment I left on his blog) reproduces it for us and spells out a few of its more maddening parts.

It Pays to Write Well

For those who need a little nudge to motivate them to write essays on liberty, we have the Mont Pelerin Hayek Essay Contest (HT2 von Pepe) and the Independent Institute’s Sir John M. Templeton essay contest.

"Biggest Dose in History Failing, Proves Dose Was Too Small"

I heard some guy on NPR’s “Fresh Air”–he used to be chief economist for the IMF and now teaches at MIT–talking about the alleged lessons of Japan’s lost decade. You guessed it, the problem was that they didn’t reform their banking sector. I am no expert on Japanese history, but I’m guessing they pumped in […]

Two Articles on Gold

This post is mostly for my own bookkeeping… Tonight I will be penning a Mises Daily in response to this piece by Luskin (HT2 Tom Woods) which is mostly OK, except for his fear of falling prices. On the other hand, this Bloomberg piece (HT2 Dietwald Claus) is virtually pure nonsense.