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NASA Forced to Revise Temperature Data, But Skeptics Looking Suspicous Now Too

As this UK Telegraph story explains, NASA had to revise its temperature records because it had failed to catch a reporting error from Russian stations. Because the records used September temperature readings for October, it originally seemed that last October was the hottest on record; that has now been changed. However, there’s an interesting twist […]

Zimbabwe Central Banker Blames Lazy Citizens for Inflation

According to this report (HT2LRC), Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono is quoted in The Sunday Mail, a state-owned newspaper, as saying inflation is due to what he calls a “collective failure as a nation” to produce enough, particularly food. He calls on Zimbabweans “to actively play a part in producing for the nation.” Zimbabwe’s inflation […]

Another Funny Adventure from Google Alerts

Apparently Bob Murphy won first prize for his photo op with a grizzly.

The High Cost of "Green Recovery"

This piece ran in Forbes.com over the weekend. Again, it is pretty low-brow stuff for those readers who wish I would spend more time on Bohm-Bawerk’s critique of Marx’s law of surplus value. But hey, part of the function of this blog is for me to keep track of all my publications. It’s not you, […]

Two Things Christians Should Keep in Mind When Dealing With All These #$#(*$# Idiots

Lately one of the personal flaws that has been bothering me the most is that I am a bit, shall we say, unmerciful, in my blog posts. Now some of my repeat targets I have at least talked with over email, and I’m pretty sure I’m not making them cry. Still, a lot of times […]

Issa Slips Up

This is great. Congressman Issa was grilling Neel Kashkari, playing up his outrage for the cameras at the Paulson bait & switch. But lo and behold, in his tantrum, he lets slip that the original plan was for Treasury to spend half of the money buying troubled assets from foreign institutions. In case you have […]

Brad DeLong Does His Part to Fan Fears of the Bogus Credit Crunch

Now that Paulson has almost literally admitted he was lying when he asked for the loot, I can’t believe people are still defending his story. At this point I think it’s more an issue of proving “I was right all along on this!” rather than the search for the truth. (And yes, I have taken […]

Yet Another Austrian Economics Blog

The NYU Colloquium participants have decided that their weekly seminar is not inducing the Misesian vanguard quickly enough, and so now they have set up a blog. I recall the last time I linked to new Austrian blogs, and someone remarked (paraphrasing), “Just what the world needs, another econ blog.” I think it is appropriate […]