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Mainstream Macro’s Ridiculous Apologists

I actually have a ton of “real work” today so this may be my last post (unless gold shoots up $50 or something). First, I wanted to alert you that Floyd Norris has approved a bunch of our comments; some good ones in there from all of you. Second, Alex Tabarrok has a great post […]

Murphy in Seattle, on Bickering Economists and Unemployment in the Depression

This is the 30-minute talk I gave at the Seattle Mises Circle. To understand one of the opening jokes, you need to know that before my talk, Walter Block gave his. He has distributed a small sheet of paper with a table of present-value calculations at various interest rates and maturities. (E.g. $1 delivered in […]

Frank Rich on Glenn Beck

Apropos of my recent email exchange with Glenn Greenwald, I found this paragraph from a Frank Rich column (HT2LRC) interesting: “Wall Street owns our government,” Beck declared in one rant this July. “Our government and these gigantic corporations have merged.” He drew a chart to dramatize the revolving door between Washington and Goldman Sachs in […]

Caplan on Cowen

Bryan Caplan explains that a certain position is held by almost all GMU economists, and 75% of the analysts at Cato. Then he says: It is not Tyler’s take, as far as I can gather, because as usual Tyler rejects the standard libertarian view in favor of a complex, pluralistic story that satisfies no one […]

God the Father

I think I’ve blogged about this before, but it bears repeating: I understand our relationship to God a lot better, now that I have a child myself. The most striking example is obedience. I get really frustrated when my son insists on doing something his way, even after I’ve just told him not to. The […]

Obama’s Missile Shield Move

I wasn’t sure that I should even comment on Obama’s recent decision to scrap the Bush plans to place “defensive” missiles in Eastern Europe. (BTW, I actually don’t think it was “Obama’s decision” but I can’t tackle too many things in one blog post.) I probably couldn’t find Iran on an unmarked map of the […]

An Alternative Viewpoint

A local guy is hosting a discussion on Austrian economics and the current financial crisis, and he invited me to come and sort of keep things rolling smoothly. The common element is that everybody at this gathering is a Christian who doesn’t want the government taking more of his money. (I’m pretty sure it will […]

Warn the Street, the Beast Is Loose

This is awesome. EPJ tips us off to the opening scene of Wall Street 2, when Gordon Gekko is released from prison: As I explained in the comments, I haven’t been this excited for a movie since Star Wars Episode I. If Jar Jar Binks show up in this, I’m going to be really upset […]