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Tom Woods Spreads Scurrilous Rumors About Me

I am frankly shocked by this video. The guy from Young Americans for Liberty asks Tom Woods if he will run for office, and Tom does the classic, “How bad do you guys want me?” And then he follows up with a completely fabricated tale. Everyone knows that I am a teetotaler. P.S. If you […]

The Bogus Emancipation Proclamation

Wow. I knew that the Emancipation Proclamation was a farce, but I don’t think I’d ever seen the whole text. Aristos (in response to a comment I left on his blog) reproduces it for us and spells out a few of its more maddening parts.

It Pays to Write Well

For those who need a little nudge to motivate them to write essays on liberty, we have the Mont Pelerin Hayek Essay Contest (HT2 von Pepe) and the Independent Institute’s Sir John M. Templeton essay contest.

"Biggest Dose in History Failing, Proves Dose Was Too Small"

I heard some guy on NPR’s “Fresh Air”–he used to be chief economist for the IMF and now teaches at MIT–talking about the alleged lessons of Japan’s lost decade. You guessed it, the problem was that they didn’t reform their banking sector. I am no expert on Japanese history, but I’m guessing they pumped in […]

Two Articles on Gold

This post is mostly for my own bookkeeping… Tonight I will be penning a Mises Daily in response to this piece by Luskin (HT2 Tom Woods) which is mostly OK, except for his fear of falling prices. On the other hand, this Bloomberg piece (HT2 Dietwald Claus) is virtually pure nonsense.

Potpourri

* Mark Weber passes along a Vanity Fair interview with Louis CK. Now in the middle you might think, “Wait a second, he sounds anti-consumer, not anti-Fed! I’ve been duped!” But c’mon, the guy’s a comedian. Just like you can love Carlin and Bill Hicks for their foreign policy riffs, so too can you appreciate […]

Too Much Bank Transparency

Earlier today I relayed some free advice regarding my empirical research at the bank. I thought my readers would enjoy visual documentation: I think we can all agree, this was no small hole. Immediately after the incident, Mel Brooks from Spaceballs* popped into my head. * If anyone can find me the right YouTube clip, […]

Murphy Triple Play

Oh my, once every 38 years, the stars align such that three hard-hitting articles debut on the same day. Today is such a day. (1) In this EconLib piece I dissect the paradox of thrift, using Steve Fazzari’s EconTalk podcast as a springboard. If you have the time (and haven’t already listened to it), I […]