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How the Private Bankers Are Using the Financial Crisis to Reshape World Government

How’s that for a neutral title? If you are willing to play this in the background, there are a few decent jokes sprinkled throughout.

Krugman Almost Renders Landsburg and Me Speechless

On the issue of corporate taxation, Steve Landsburg recently declared that Krugman had rendered him “at a loss for words.” (Although I should add, Steve managed to find 543 words to put in his post.) In this post, Steve wrote: But if his point is that you must claim a share of those profits in […]

Learn the Views of Mises on Money and Banking!

Admit it: You’ve had that copy of The Theory of Money & Credit on your shelf since October 2008. When TARP went through, you thought the end was near, and you needed to go back to the ancient texts to get guidance through the storm. But then Mises started talking about “credit money” and you […]

Follow-Up on Labor versus Investment Taxes

Steve Landsburg thinks he’s got Mate in One in the comments of my previous post, so before he declares victory let me write this follow-up post. To set the context (again), I am dissatisfied when Steve (talking about Mitt Romney) uses a thought experiment to conclude, “people with investment income bear a higher tax burden, […]

Steve Landsburg 2, English Language 0

I want to give a disclaimer that usually when I think University of Rochester economist Steve Landsburg is wrong on something, it’s not that his conclusion is mistaken, or even that the world is a worse place for him having advanced the argument. No, it’s more like, I think Steve tries to deliberately shock his […]

My Name’s Bob, and I Have a Debt Addiction Problem

I see my Team Leader has retreated back to his monastery in the snowy mountains up north, to resume his meditations and emerge again only when disaster strikes and all hope seems lost. By the same token, I seriously have a bunch of work I have been neglecting because of all this, so I must […]

From the Comments: Callahan Joins the CPR Effort on Krugman’s Position

It is amazing to behold people denying that Krugman et al. thought it was literally impossible for us to impoverish future generations. Here is Gene Callahan from the comments: [I]n other words, does depicting a scenario in which government debt is used to impoverish future generations prove Krugman wrong? I say it does not, since […]

My FreedomWatch Appearance

Next week, Glenn Beck is going to have me on his show for a full segment to walk his viewers through my 9-period apple model. (Of course that’s a joke.) Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com I just watched this for the first time. I was worried that maybe I would have said something a […]