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Austrian Study Group in Nashville Area

I am passing along this email, which I received from Matt Raum. Note that I am not organizing this group. If it gets up and running, I will probably stop in once in a while. I’m just passing this along in case there are readers who want to join. I told Matt that he should […]

Thomas Sowell Back in the Day

I didn’t know such videos were floating around. Thanks to Tony Garcia.

Sparks Goes to the White House

This is pretty good; I kept thinking I would stop it but watched the whole thing. (HT2LRC) Warning a few naughty words.

My Mises Column on the Econ Nobel

Here is my column at Mises today on the new Nobelists. I walk through a watered-down numerical example to give you a flavor of their labor models, in case you aren’t quite able to read the actual journal articles but you want a little bit more meat than I’ve seen in most second-hand accounts. Then […]

Things Not Looking Good

Here’s the CNBC headline: Jobless Claims, Inflation, Trade Deficit Each Surge Higher As far as the inflation, they are referring to the fact that in the Producer Price Index, prices for finished goods this September were 4.0 percent higher than in September 2009, and they rose at a (seasonally-adjusted) 0.4 percent from August 2010 to […]

A Snarky Note on the Nobel

I have a Mises Daily on deck for Thursday, regarding this year’s Nobel (Memorial) winners in economics. But here, one observation: People on both the left and right are chuckling to themselves that Republicans held up Obama’s nomination of Peter Diamond to the Federal Reserve, now that Diamond has won a Nobel Prize. But this […]

Value-Free Economics

I am saving the meat of this for a Sunday “religious” post, because it will get into theological issues. But to give the background, I met a guy for lunch the other day who is working on a video series to teach basic economics from a Christian perspective. The guy was asking me about the […]

Potpourri

* Goodness gracious, great balls of fire in the geeconosphere. Sis, boom, bah. * This slipped through the cracks: A podcast with Patrick Donohoe, who is big into the whole life movement. (Doesn’t it sound like a New Agey thing?) * I warned Bryan that if he didn’t retract his statement that the “first-best” policy […]