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John Oliver on Third Party Candidates

I had never heard Johnson talk about Mt. Everest like this before, and I didn’t know Jill Stein had dropped a dope album back in the day. This video made me like Johnson slightly less, like Stein a lot more, and like John Oliver slightly less. Oh and the tiger guy is a riot. P.S. […]

Trolling Update

Scott has playfully pushed back against my nomination of myself as Best Troll of an Economics Blog 2016; you can read that and the comments if you are really committed to doing nothing productive for the next 15 minutes. After that, I encourage you to consider just one more example of my trolling, on an EconLog […]

Nomination

I put forward my own name for Best Troll on an Economics Blog in 2016. Here’s but one example. Now look, there are some master trolls who hang out at Landsburg’s blog, and there are arguable professionals at Marginal Revolution. So I’m not asking that I win. All I ask, is that you don’t ding […]

Eugen Was Not PC

For the History of Economic Thought lecture on Bohm-Bawerk, I came across this passage that I remember reading in grad school: “How many an Indian tribe, with careless greed, has sold the land of its fathers, the source of its maintenance, to the pale faces for a couple of casks of “firewater”!” (I have no […]

Two Snarky Comments on Sumner

With all of my traveling this summer, I worry that Scott Sumner feels I am neglecting him. (After all, I have a weekly podcast devoted to Krugman–have I forgotten my Market Monetarist friends?) So as to partially rectify my benign neglect, here are two snarky comments on recent Sumner posts: ==> In this post responding […]

Schumpeter Is Insensitive

I’m working on lectures for my History of Economic Thought courses for Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom (I will blast out the details once they’re all up–very soon now!), and this passage from Schumpeter cracked me up: I do not think that Ricardo ever did much historical reading. But this is not what I mean [in […]

Bob Murphy: The Worst Economist in the World

I repeated the YouTube title because (as someone on Facebook pointed out) it looks like a video hatchet job on me. Nope, just bonus comedy. And that Yoram Bauman has the audacity to still refer to himself as the world’s only standup comedian.

Soul-Eating Dementor

Do you understand what this kind of thing does to me? (BTW normally I black out people’s identities but I can’t find the right program on my office computer.)