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The Government Is Not Going to Drastically Curb Carbon Emissions

I don’t think the U.S. government is actually going to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions. Rather, I think it is going to raise trillions of dollars that it then doles back out to industry. So the identities of carbon emitters will certainly shift from the political out groups to the connected people, but I don’t […]

Man Survives Both A-Bombs

Tyler Cowen tips us off to this: Mr. Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on Aug. 6, 1945, when an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He returned to Nagasaki, his hometown, before the second attack, officials said. I can’t decide how I want to crack a joke about this. […]

EU President: US Spending Is the "Way to Hell"

That’s the actual headline of this CNBC story. I think if European leaders* are telling your government it’s spending too much, people should sit up and take notice. * And I realize Czechoslovakia has an interesting political landscape…

How Much Should Parents Propagandize Their Kids?

This is a tough one. On the one hand, I don’t want my son (our only child) thinking he has to lead a libertarian revolution, but on the other hand, I expect him to do great things with his life. But I think I would be just as pleased to see him become a (great) […]

An Oldie But Goodie

Because I have a new book coming that (I hope) will appeal to conservative fans of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, I reviewed my LvMI talk about my first book. I was worried that the speech–entitled (not by me) “How I Bamboozled Thousands of Conservatives Into Thinking Like Anarchists”–would turn these people off once I […]

Creating Price-Variable Income Streams

The number one thing I think people need to do to prepare for a possible hyper-depression (=stagflation squared) is to move out of variable-rate, dollar-denominated debt as quickly as possible. You don’t want an ARM or a rolling credit card balance when the prime rate jumps to 45%. Strictly speaking, it’s fine to let the […]

Why Are Yahoo! Answers Terrible?

I had never thought about it much until someone else brought it up (I think when I was down in Auburn for ASC 2009). Have you ever wasted your time checking the Yahoo! Answers when you google something? Seriously, I think I perused those things maybe 8 times, before realizing that they were worse than […]

Obama Will Be Re-Elected

I happened to be in the car for a long stretch this evening and caught most of President Obama’s press conference. As Beavis would tell him, “Heh heh damn you’re smooth.” I think he will easily be re-elected. Yes, the economy will be in the tank, but if he can casually and persuasively explain his […]