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Conspiracy Theory

Gene Callahan recently wrote on the funny way we use this term in our society, but I want to use Scott Sumner’s recent comments as a springboard. Note, Scott is not unusual in his usage, but I’m using his example because I just saw it today. In this post, Scott was arguing that he wasn’t […]

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Glenn Greenwald Is So Awesome

Just watch him–and I mean literally, watch his facial expressions–during this interview.

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Potpourri

==> Tom Woods has me on his show (not to be confused with Contra Krugman) to talk about ObamaCare’s claimed success. ==> I am the Voldemort of climate change economics (i.e. this refers to me, but not by name). ==> Very interesting Jacob Hornberger article on Trump vs. the CIA.

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Trump Is So Awful He Defies Reason

…from his critics, that is. I really didn’t expect that in 2017, I would bother commenting on Scott Sumner’s crusade against Donald Trump. But after reading a recent post from Scott, I can’t help myself, and I can only hope that you will see why. On January 10, Scott opened a post like this: “There […]

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On the Tatiana Show

We talk about Bitcoin, environmental regulations, and Trump…

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Potpourri

==> Rob Bradley talks about Exxon and its support for a carbon tax. (Did you know that?) ==> Very interesting Reason podcast with Glenn Greenwald. Note in particular how Greenwald (and I believe Snowden also) disagree with Assange’s policy to just dump everything on WikiLeaks, as opposed to the way Greenwald and Snowden carefully released […]

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The Reason Contra Krugman Was Invented

As many of you know, on Monday the NYT published a Paul Krugman column titled “Deficits Matter Again.”  That meant I was up till 2am assembling this blog post (which analyzed every Krugman column dealing with “deficits” or “borrow” in 2016), so that the next day Tom and I could be fully informed as we recorded […]

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Contra Krugman Ep. 68: Krugman on Corruption

This was a fun one. At the suggestion of David R. Henderson, I’ll do outlines of the podcast here on my blog, so that people can zoom in to a particular segment if they’re too busy to listen to the whole thing. (However, I really think you should just treat yourself to the entirety of […]

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