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A Note on ECON MOMENTS and Ron Paul vs. Non-Neutrality of Money

[UPDATE below.] Just to give you a quick update, over the weekend I bit the bullet and bought a new camera that takes a mic. However, my parents are coming into town this week for Easter, and then I’m traveling like CRAZY for two weeks. (As Dennis Miller would say, I’m going to make Kerouac […]

Potpourri

==> I missed this when he first posted it, but Silas Barta has a good contribution on the broken window debate, and how it relates to “recalculation.” I think if Tyler Cowen had written the exact same blog post (scattered with references to classic papers in the literature) people would be doubled over at the […]

Potpourri

==> This article about “how modern men are trained to hate women” is actually really insightful. It’s supposed to be entertaining and has lots of absurd photos, but I actually think the guy makes some good points. ==> Even though he and I don’t see eye-to-eye on everything in the “free banking” argument, I must […]

Minimum Wage

This will be the last ECON MOMENT until I experiment with the mic situation. I realize this sounds like I’m being huffy, but I don’t feel like reading a bunch of comments from people offering to buy me a mic every time I post one of these. Hopefully by the weekend I will see how […]

Krugman Lets the Cat Out of the Bag on Socialized Healthcare

Like that guy in 1984 who liked Big Brother a little too much, I think the Party higher-ups may have to take care of Krugman for running his mouth a little too recklessly in his discussion of the Supreme Court and ObamaCare: Well, ObamaRomneycare is basically a somewhat klutzy way of simulating single-payer. Instead of […]