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Peter Schiff Gets Hugs & Kisses on The Ed Show

People had been complaining about this interview at LRC, but I didn’t realize how bad it was. If you watch, say, the first three minutes, that’s a good sample of the whole thing. I think that interview will actually help Schiff a lot. It will first of all toughen him up for if/when he debates […]

Attacking Anarchy

My former star pupil Gennady Stolyarov II repays my kindness by criticizing Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism (what I call “market anarchy” [.pdf]). In the below article, guest blogger Edward Gonzalez also takes me to task. I would be nervous, if I weren’t right.–RPM ================ Questioning Market Anarchyby Edward Gonzalez After a seven month tour in Iraq fighting […]

P.J. O’Rourke (and Me) on Government Motors

I think I got this link from Chris Brunner… In any event PJO has some pretty good lines in here. E.g. in referring to the politicians taking over the financial sector, he says (paraphrasing) “That’s like when the father burns dinner, and then putting the dog in charge of the cooking. In other words, the […]

Amongst Other Gifts, God Gives Us Objective Truth

Perhaps seeing that I do not restrict my self-important ramblings to merely economic matters, lately Scott Sumner (the Little Professor Who Could, who is now receiving NYT coverage) has branched off into philosophy. In a recent post he wrote: What we are doing in physics is constructing models that can predict, and that therefore are […]

My Lucas Critique

Over at the Mises blog–and note that the Mises blog is different from the Mises Daily article–I have a short post about Robert Lucas’ defense of mainstream economics. Lucas basically argued that nobody could have predicted the housing crash, because if they had predicted it by the day before, then it would have happened the […]

An Odd Comment From Geithner

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has urged Congress to raise the federal debt limit, currently chafing the administration at a measly $12.1 trillion. But as Robert Wenzel noted, Geithner’s reasoning is odd: “It is critically important that Congress act before the limit is reached so that citizens and investors here and around the world can remain […]

Krugman the Scientist Explains the Elderly Rioters

From his latest NYT column: But while the organizers are as crass as they come, I haven’t seen any evidence that the people disrupting those town halls are Florida-style rent-a-mobs. For the most part, the protesters appear to be genuinely angry. The question is, what are they angry about? There was a telling incident at […]

My Radio Interview in the Bahamas

Here it is [.mp3]. I went in to the studio to do the “Jeffrey Show.” This aired live on June 19, 2009, during rush hour traffic in the Bahamas (Nassau). This was definitely something different, but the TV show I did was really a new experience. (I don’t have the DVD yet, but it’s coming.) […]