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The Forthcoming Lessons for the Young Economist, a High School Economics Course

I am pleased to announce that the Mises Institute has officially given me the green light to start working on an economics course geared for the high school level. The main audience will be for homeschoolers, but the course materials will be “official” enough that any high school teacher with a friendly administration could adopt […]

Fifth Third Bank Manager Taking Sales Tips From Obama?

I’m sure most of you heard President Obama’s ill-advised attempt to defuse critics of the health “reform” plans. Obama was trying to make the point that a public (government) health insurance plan wouldn’t put private insurers out of business, and so he noted that FedEx and UPS were doing fine, whereas the Post Office was […]

Mo Murphy

* More lecturing for CA, this time in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. * If you hate downloading mp3s, here is my radio interview in the Bahamas broken up into YouTube segments. (Thanks to Damien Forsythe.) * Ay caramba!

Fed: We Will Continue to Monetize the Debt Through October

That’s not the exact spin that CNBC gave to the story: The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will extend the duration but not the dollar amount of a program to buy long-term government securities, and said the economy was showing signs of leveling out after 20 months of recession. The Fed, the US central bank, […]

Rizzo Batting .900

Folks, I am waiting for Mario Rizzo to slip up and post something dumb, just so I can pounce on him and prove I’m independent. But alas, he keeps knocking it out of the park: The over-all theme of [Krugman’s] article is that big government is our salvation. “[U]tter catastrophe no longer seems likely…Big Government, […]

Is There a Doc in the House? A Response to Krugman on ObamaCare

Today I am pleased to offer a response to Paul Krugman’s arguments that the free market can’t work in health care. The writer is Matthew DiPaola, who was in my high school class. More important, as his bio below indicates, Matthew is an actual MD and thus may actually know more than Krugman, me, and […]

Kudlow’s Cuckoo for Clunkers

I explain the unfortunate demise of Larry Kudlow in this Mises Daily.

Revealing Language in the Health Care Bill

Robert Wenzel has been doing a great job keeping his readers up to speed on just how awful the health care bill is. In particular, he has been repeating the remarks of some poor guy who actually read the whole thing. (!!) Whenever I see “shocking” commentary like the one on EPJ, I like to […]