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Amazing Article on Freeman Dyson

A few people sent this NYT article on physicist and jack-of-all-trades Freeman Dyson, but it was the enigmatic von Pepe’s email that pushed me over the top. It is really amazing. This is one interesting guy. The article focuses on the climate change stuff, but I find it more interesting that the government (?) would […]

The AIG Bonus Brouhaha

I didn’t catch this when it ran, but it is now in my archives at Townhall and there are a dozen comments, so it must have… Anyway here is my take on the AIG bonus stuff. An excerpt: The public was right to be outraged. But the real problem was the bailout in the first […]

Hannan Says Nannah to British PM

Robert Wenzel linked to this; it is really sweet. What diction!

Shhh! Don’t Tell Anyone, but the PIG to the Great Depression and the New Deal Exists

Yesterday I got a box of 10 copies of my new book. Longtime readers know that I am nothing if not modest, but I have to say that this book is sweet. In all seriousness, it used to terrify me when people suggested I give a talk at a bookstore for my first PIG book, […]

"What’s Bernanke Thinking?!"

Since I’m speculating on motives, let’s turn to the Fed chairman. Let’s drop the super conspiracy theory and assume for the sake of argument that Bernanke really does call the shots. (In reality, I think it is entirely possible that Bernanke knows he can’t do such-and-such or else he might accidentally take too many sleeping […]

Why Will Obama Be Re-Elected?

Kids kids kids. Many of you doubt my conviction that Barack Obama will be re-elected. But don’t you realize that that is what preoccupies him and all his advisors every day? All of these moves are not out of some devotion to Karl Marx, they are instead expertly calculated to deliver the Democrats campaign contributions […]

Why Did the Government Seize GM?

The elusive von Pepe emails me with his theory that the ultimate reason was to keep GM out of Chapter 11, where a court might overturn union contracts.