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Short Clip on Solyndra

I’d like to say I had a lot of input into this video, but alas my colleagues at IER did it all on their own. I had suggested that I take my shirt off and do an impression of Joe Biden while standing in the bathroom. But they thought it would be too esoteric for […]

An Excellent Question From Steve Landsburg

When he’s not working on the great American novel, Steve Landsburg poses some excellent questions to his readers: Scientists at CERN have found apparent evidence that neutrinos can travel faster than light. Suppose that tomorrow historians at Harvard find apparent evidence that the South won the American Civil War — not in some metaphorical “they […]

Meeting My Brothers and Sisters in Slovakia

Due to an email introduction that frequent commenter Brian Shelley made a while back, over the past few days I have been staying in Slovakia with Jozef Abrman, a missionary working with a Christian church in Trencin, Slovakia. Jozef holds a lecture series in which he brings in Christians from all over the world who […]

Mises Rolling Over in His Grave

The glib blurb from The Economist’s blog: About Free exchange In this blog, our correspondents consider the fluctuations in the world economy and the policies intended to produce more booms than busts. Adam Smith argued that in a free exchange both parties benefit, and this blog’s aim is to encourage a free exchange of views […]

“The Good One Versus the Evil One”

Such is the title given to this Mises Institute of Sweden article on my debate with Karl Smith. And here’s the accompanying photo: (I can’t read it, but Klaus Bernpaintner assures me they were otherwise respectful to Smith.)

Operation Distract

Whoa! Everybody is getting all bent up about the bond duration aspect of Operation Twist, but I just noticed this in the Fed’s official statement: To help support conditions in mortgage markets, the Committee will now reinvest principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities. This is […]

Markets More Complicated Than Keynesians Or Austrians Said

I’m having trouble getting real-time quotes, since I’m now in Slovakia and Google keeps “helping” by switching to some weirdo site. But assuming the trends are the same today as they were yesterday, gold is getting crushed, while both nominal and TIPS Treasury yields are down too. On the face of it, that means neither […]

The Final Installment of Man, Economy, and State

Still in Europe, so posting will be sparse until next week. In the meantime, have you ever seen such enthusiasm from me? I’ve enjoyed teaching all of my online Mises Academy classes, but I have never been more excited than I am to teach the upcoming class Money, Monopoly, and Market Intervention. This course covers […]