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Robert Wenzel Schools Me Yet Again on Economics

A while ago Robert Wenzel took me out to the woodshed (in his mind at least) regarding the “natural” rate of interest. (I don’t have the link handy.) Our latest spat–which is good, to counterbalance the usual lovefest between my blog and his–involves savings. It all started when Wenzel criticized the Commerce Department’s calculation of […]

Tom Woods Dismantles Wonkette

For the full effect, first skim this Wonkette hit job on Michelle Bachmann (and Ron Paul and Tom Woods and all my friends) and make sure to skim the comments too. Get a feel for the tone and the intelligence behind the production. Now, can you imagine writing a response that is both enlightening, hard-hitting, […]

Potpourri

* Scott Sumner busts Krugman’s hypocritical condemnation of the WSJ. * Seeing how fun it was for right-wingers to comb through Krugman’s work, Mark Thoma busts Greg Mankiw (HT2BDL). * Speaking of DeLong, he must not be all that bad–he made a MadMax reference in this post. * Continuing to speak of DeLong, what do […]

In the Land of Guns and Pickup Trucks

I won’t be posting much until the weekend. I am outside of San Antonio to give a talk on the Great Depression and other bits of Americana. In the meantime, just remember that the government is not your friend.

The Importance of Sympathy

Brad DeLong is once again beside himself. Sometimes the lies of the free market economists are so incredible that even he is surprised: Does National Review have no editors? Does Thomas Sowell have no friends? Wherefore this personal attack on a disadvantaged minority? Sowell’s mistake was the following line from a National Review article:“A quadrupling […]

Murphy on Fox News

On Friday, June 26, 2009 I had a brief appearance on Stuart Varney’s show. (Here is the clip from June 26, 2008 when I was also on his show.) In case you’re wondering, I wasn’t being thoughtful in between questions; there is a slight delay.

What’s Wrong With This WSJ Snapshot?

Von Pepe sends along the following screen shot. Notice anything ironic about the two circled stories?

Austrians: Our Victory Is Complete, Part II

In an earlier post, I quoted Scott Sumner who (jokingly) said that ABCT had captured the hearts and minds of the intelligentsia. Today I impulsively followed a Google Ad (from my inbox, not from this blog, which would violate all sorts of contractual provisions) to this in-your-face site, which declares: At the end of the […]