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Paul Krugman’s Song

In the comments of my post about Anthony Gregory’s songwriting fan, Douglas pointed us to the Paul Krugman song: The AG song was much cooler because the writer showed that he really had read Anthony’s stuff. In contrast, although the song above sounds more like a “real” pop song, all the writer really proves he […]

Two Blog Posts From the Institute for Energy Research

* This post shows that the Obama budget’s estimate of $646 billion from cap and trade revenues was way below the real belief. According to the deputy director of the National Economic Council, the White House is expecting more like $1.3 to $1.9 trillion. I’m sure it was just an oversight that those numbers didn’t […]

China Wants to Dethrone the Dollar

Hey kids, is it really so farfetched to think the dollar (and US Treasurys) will crash this year? As this article reports: China’s central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund. In an essay posted on the People’s […]

Anthony Gregory in the House

I get a few emails from fans, but nobody has written a song about me. Anthony played it for us at the Austrian Scholars Conference. Yuks all around.

Your Government Is Lying to You

So what’s new? I know I know, but every once in a while these things just hit me, and so I pass them along. Today’s case in point, the White House’s own estimate of federal debt held by the public. As you can see in Table S-1 here [pdf], the Obama Team in its own […]

Potpourri

* Tyler Cowen links to a piece that explains a strategy to game the Geithner plan. * Oh man, more talk about the Fed’s “weapons” at Mankiw’s blog…Check it out: Some people are concerned that in the the fight against recession, the weapons of monetary policy are nearly out of ammunition. That is certainly the […]

Two Narcissistic Notes

* Here [mp3] is my hour interview with David Hanson (who sounds like Ronald Reagan when you first hear him). I followed Tom Woods, so you know I blew the audience away. * Here is the itinerary for my May 16th talk at the North Dakota Policy Council. What the heck, I have to follow […]

Utopian Regulators

The people touting the market can plausibly say, “We never gave it a shot.” But those blaming the housing bubble on deregulation don’t really have a strong position. There really wasn’t deregulation, but instead changed regulation (or reregulation) after the changes in financial regulation that allegedly spawned the boom. The mysterious von Pepe and I […]