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Josie the Outlaw’s Message to Police

By the way, one of the up and coming liberty heroines I featured in my hippy video is “Josie the Outlaw.” I linked to her new site when she launched it last week, but I want to draw your attention to one of her powerful videos. This thing already has 109,000+ views. I totally understand […]

Potpourri

==> Mario Rizzo stands up for economic freedom and tolerance. ==> A few people have told me to highlight this apparent Krugman Kontradiction on unemployment benefits and job search (scroll down a bit). I actually highlighted this when it initially occurred (perhaps because somebody brought it to my attention, I can’t remember). However, Krugman on […]

Thoughts on JFK Assassination

Hey let me add my two cents–everyone else is. A year or two ago I actually spent about a week really diving into this issue. I wanted to see if I thought a reasonable person could adequately assess the evidence without becoming a “buff.” I decided at the end of this inquiry–in which I focused […]

Summers and Krugman: The Liquidity Trap Is Forever

It now looks like the War on Savings will be as eternal as the War on Terror. Previously, Paul Krugman et al. had confined their upside-down prescriptions to this apparently temporary abnormality, but once things returned to normal they would go back (we were assured) to worrying about budget deficits and the stability of the […]

Bureaucrats Want to Put a Black Box in Your Car

At any given time, bureaucrats are plotting ways to take your money and your privacy. This LA Times story relays yet another example: WASHINGTON — As America’s road planners struggle to find the cash to mend a crumbling highway system, many are beginning to see a solution in a little black box that fits neatly […]

I Was Wrong on “Opting Out”

Even though complaining about the TSA is the new libertarian pastime, I had never gotten that worked up about it. Of course, I agreed with the intellectual arguments that the TSA and their policies were a horrendous violation of liberty that didn’t make us safer. But since I personally travel a lot for business, I […]

Blimey Cow Recognizes Talent

The main video is entertaining as usual, but starting at 3:00 they incorporate a Status Update I posted on Facebook. You can see I got writing credit.

A Risk-Free Prediction on the Economics “Nobel” That Is All Upside

I am not making a formal prediction here, so if it doesn’t pan out, no harm. However, it occurs to me that to the extent one thinks the various Nobel Prizes (and related “Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science” award) are issued for political reasons,* rather than strictly for merit, then I would expect this […]