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Three great pieces for ya… * The definitive free marketeer blog post on how to think about the mark-to-market controversy. * Bob Higgs rolls up his sleeves and blows up (what he calls) vulgar Keynesianism. I warn you that there are a few equations in here, but this is top-flight stuff. Higgs really nails the […]

Australian PM Blames Geithner for Directly Messing Up Indonesia, and Indirectly for Contributing to Housing Boom

Tokyo Tom passed along this very interesting piece describing the accusations. (EPJ has two follow ups here and here.) I’ll boil down the essentials here: In a speech…[former Australian PM] Paul Keating gave a starkly different account of Geithner’s record in handling the Asian crisis: “Tim Geithner was the Treasury line officer who wrote the […]

Jon Stewart Goes Off on CNBC

I think he is a bit unfair to Rick Santelli, but Jon Stewart–and his research staff–are awesome. This is a bit long but it’s really good. I watched it twice. (HT2EPJ) The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c CNBC Gives Financial Advice Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things With Demetri Martin Political […]

OK I Will Ignore DeLong, Starting…Now

I misspoke in the previous post when I said I was done nitpicking Brad DeLong’s posts. For how could I know that he would then devote an entire post to me?! (What timing.) Regular readers here will see right away the true hilarity in DeLong’s response. PLEASE be nice, guys. Let’s be the classiest commenters […]

Note to Self: Don’t Ever Let Brad DeLong Paraphrase My Views On An Issue

All right kids, I promise I will leave Krugman and DeLong alone for a while after I get this one out of my system. But I couldn’t help from posting a snarky comment at DeLong’s blog in response to his ridicule of an NRO post warning of hiking taxes on the nation’s most productive people. […]

Yet More on Hoover

Assuming it doesn’t get zapped, I have the first (and snarky) comment at Krugman’s blog post invoking the tightwad Hoover to discredit fiscal conservatives.

Brad DeLong’s Distortion of Hoover Record Reaches New High (Low)

Folks, I really have been trying to avoid accusations of dishonesty. As someone who has made strong claims that he’s later come to regret, I know that it is always safest to merely attribute intellectual error to someone who is completely (and demonstrably) misleading his audience on an important point. (Note that one can mislead […]

Greg Mankiw Rises to the Challenge

This is great… I’ve always thought Greg Mankiw’s blog was pretty useless, since he basically links to other things with one-liners. But lately he’s come out of his shell to foil the dark forces of the Obama economic team. In this post I want to clarify exactly what Mankiw is saying regarding recessions and future […]