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==> Gene Callahan sent me this very interesting piece on Bob Dylan and Christian Zionism. ==> Rob Bradley gets a letter in the WSJ about the Paris talks. ==> Apparently you can’t read the Senate torture report if you’re in the Executive branch. ==> Come see Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist and me in Houston […]

From the Comments, Quoting Myself on the Gold Standard and Scott Sumner

Apparently I do a great impression of a sphinx. This comment might clarify what I was trying to get across in my previous post: E. Harding now we go from “the monetary deflationary shock so obviously caused the Great Depression that it’s hard to deny it” to “it didn’t matter”? That’s a lot of goalpost […]

Go Forth and Multiply Bask

Hey, can someone locate an “authoritative” forecast on per capita global real GDP growth for the long term? I just need a ballpark figure, like, “The IMF / World Bank / Magic 8 Ball says that per capita real GDP will grow an average of 1.5% annually through 2060…” The actual figure is not important, […]

Denmark Central Bank Bask

Does anyone feel confident in sending me the data (or showing me where to get it) for the total assets held by Denmark’s central bank, by year? I think I did it on my own, but I’d like a second opinion since I’m dealing with a foreign entity.

Excel Bask

This is for a colleague who’s visiting us here at the Free Market Institute… He as data in Excel with Year in Column A, and then items of interest in B through M (or whatever). Now, at the very bottom, after the last year, he wants to have a row that returns the *year* of […]

Krugman Bask

[UPDATE: To clarify, the one I have in mind isn’t a chart with just a single line, which you see in Bush vs. Obama years. Rather, the chart has two different series on it, one representing spending in the Bush recovery and the other in the Obama recovery. So you can see, quarter by quarter, […]

Stigler Bask

Can anyone find a non-gated version of this article? Stigler 1955, “The Nature and Role of Originality in Scientific Progress,” Economica, New Series, Vol. 22, No. 88, pp. 293-302 Note, I am not asking to break IP laws.

GMOs: Pro and Con

Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Taleb deploy their “fat tails” framework (initially developed for financial markets) to GMOs. This guy on Forbes is not a fan.