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Avoid Hardee’s of Valdosta #6

This is mostly a note to myself, but some of you who are in the Florida / Georgia area and who also patronize fast food restaurants may benefit as well: On a recent road trip, I picked the wrong Hardee’s. The floors were dirty, the shake machine was out of commission, the soda was flat, […]

More Rosy Forecasts From the CBO

Earlier I linked to an IER critique of the CBO’s scoring of Waxman-Markey. Bob Roddis sends me this Yglesias discussion of the super bargain TARP plan. You thought taxpayers were out $700 billion? Nah, don’t worry; the CBO is predicting only $159 billion in total losses on the plan, of which a mere $69 billion* […]

Cowen and Yglesias (!) Making Sense on Climate Change

Tyler Cowen approvingly quotes Matt Yglesias on the dangers of starting a carbon tariff war: The bottom line about the international aspects of climate change is that the very idea of an effective response assumes the existence of a generally cooperative international environment. It doesn’t assume the non-existence of the odd “rogue” state here or […]

For the Record: The BLS’ NSA CPI circa June 2009

In a recent post [link to be added], Robert Wenzel spelled out something that had been implicit in my views. I’ll recapitulate the argument here, and then I’ll list the BLS’ current figures so we have a convenient record later on. For a while I’ve been warning that actual Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation has […]

More Bluffing From Krugman

This is great; sometimes I really just love the Internet. Paul Krugman shoots his mouth off about an Arrow article, and Bryan Caplan and then David R. Henderson spank him. Naughty Nobelist! Such a public comeuppance is only possible with the Internet. I was pretty sure Krugman was bluffing about the Arrow paper, but I […]

Glenn Greenwald Busts Hypocritical Obama Supporters

I am so glad that Glenn Greenwald has been consistent in his treatment of Bush and Obama. I loved his scathing critiques of the Constitution-chuckin’ cowboy in the White House, but I was bracing for GG to come up with excuses for Obama (as so many have done). But not Glenn: Ever since Obama reversed […]

Update On My Erroneous Gold Call

Time is slipping away (busy busy busy), so let me put my finger on the single biggest mistake I think I made regarding my January 23rd call for gold to break $1000 by the summer. First, let me give myself a break. At the time of the call, gold was about $878 (I’m just eyeballing […]

What to Do if an Infant or Toddler Is Choking

The other day my four-year-old was choking on some orange slices for about 2 seconds, but those were a terrifying 2 seconds. So I decided to banish my fears through knowledge, and refreshed my memory on CPR for little guys. The below video is about 8 minutes, but it’s really good. (You also have to […]