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There Oughta Be a Video…

Tell me this wouldn’t go viral on YouTube: You show a brief clip from CNN or some other official news network, announcing the release of the two journalists from North Korea, and how they flew back to the United States with Bill Clinton. Then the screen changes showing a Bill Clinton impersonator with two Korean […]

The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree

Aristos posted a video of his six-year-old’s teeball game. If you are a father, watch the first 1:45 of the video. It is hilarious. (BTW Aristos and I were very competitive in college. [He was better in pickup football, I was better in chess.] So that’s partly why I was laughing out loud. But even […]

Waiting on the IRS

Argh… I am working on a payment plan with the IRS. (For a while my business wasn’t incorporated, and so I just got checks made out to me personally. You’re supposed to file quarterly tax payments as that income rolls in. Well, I was always going to do it, next month. And then it was […]

Something New to Fret About: The U.S.’ "Green Trade Deficit"

Just when you thought the “green recovery” plans couldn’t get more inefficient: Green investment is a major pillar of the president’s economic recovery plan. Yet, America’s dependence on foreign countries to produce green technologies may undermine this recovery strategy. Using a list of green goods derived from the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) […]

It’s For a Good Cause…

Recently I discovered this great public radio station. (It’s 98.9 FM in the Nashville area; I don’t know the call letters.) The first time I stopped on it, there was a guy who didn’t sound insane, talking about how all the Osama bin Laden videos after a certain date were obvious fabrications. Then a few […]

O’Driscoll Economizes on My Words

For a while, I think Mario Rizzo and I were the two contributors to the geeconosphere who most succinctly pointed out the micro-coordination problems that macro stimulus would distort. But in a short post, I think Jerry O’Driscoll crystallizes it even more tightly: Consider the current economic situation. A financial crisis has been brought on […]

The Difference Between the Market and the Government

When businesspeople try to benefit from technological advances, they end up designing robots that feed humans Ramen (HT2MR). When government officials realize the new opportunities, they fund the development of robots that feed on human corpses (HT2LRC).* Any questions? * Aww shucks, the wusses at Fox News have officially repudiated the original story. Now apparently […]

Potpourri

* Another favorable review (of my first Politically Incorrect Guide) at FrontPageMag. * My radio interview with Michael McKay, from the Mises Institute. * Betsy Hansen was a summer fellow at the Mises Institute this year. Last week (during the conference) we started talking about mark-to-market and it soon became apparent that she had done […]