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* Great Lew Rockwell article about Afghanistan. He gives four links to Mises Daily articles that warned about the debacle back in 2001. * I haven’t listened to him with Scott Horton yet, but I’m sure Daniel Ellsberg is very interesting. I heard him on NPR commenting on the Afghanistan assessment, and he said something […]

Am I a Self-Loathing Economist?

Lately I’ve been ripping economists, such that critics of the free market (?) are quoting me. And then in response to Steve Horwitz saying this: I love it when the faculty member teaching in classroom the class before mine leaves the board unerased. It gives me a great chance to talk about negative externalities, including […]

Ari Gold, Based on Ari Emanuel

In this post I quoted this sentence from (Michael Jordan’s agent) David Falk’s book: The second person was Mark Dowley, who also worked for me at ProServ and went on to run the marketing department for a large Hollywood agency called Endeavor, which is run by my very good friend Ari Emanuel, the younger brother […]

"I Own Me"

If you can overlook the use of vulgarity and the failure to use reflexive pronouns, this is pretty sweet. At first you might think, “Oh it’s just some punk kid who hates rules,” but it’s actually pretty sophisticated. (HT2LRC)

Degrees of Separation

I read the following from David Falk’s musings on being an agent (which I reviewed here) during one of my potty breaks today: [The American Express commercial featuring Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski] came about due to a combination of people. One was a local consultant named Gary Stevenson, who had attended Duke and later worked […]

Mysterious CNBC Blurb on Treasury Auction

I am not being sarcastic, I want someone to explain what the heck this means. Below is the headline and blurb on the front page of CNBC for this story: TREASURYS HOLD GAINS AFTERSTRONG AUCTION OF 2-YEAR DEBTUS Treasury debt prices held moderately positive after a record auction of two-year notes fetched strong demand but […]

We Told You FDIC Wasn’t Really "Insurance"

I could never work for the government. Besides my feelings of guilt, I would simply lack the creativity to come up with stuff like this: FDIC May Ask Banks for a Bailout Tired of the government bailing out banks? Get ready for this: officials may soon ask banks to bail out the government. Senior regulators […]

Glenn Greenwald 1, Bob Murphy 0

Dang, GG put the smackdown on me in the comments of this post. [Bob Murphy wrote:] “I am going to go out on a limb and say that Glenn Greenwald has listened to Beck’s radio program about as much as I listened to Al Franken’s.”__________________ [Glenn Greenwald answered:] This is false. Over the past 6 […]