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St. Louis Fed Sends Data to the Memory Hole?

If anyone has a reasonable explanation for this, I would love to hear it. Until then, this is fueling my conspiracy theory view of the world… For my Daily Reckoning article, I included the below graph: Someone wanted to put it in a PowerPoint presentation, and so I emailed her the original source at FRED. […]

Two Fallacies Typical in Policy Discourse

* Roy Cordato debunks the whole “making our children pay for it” fallacy regarding government debt. Note: there is more to the story, and I deal with this in the PIG to Capitalism, but Roy is right in the limited space he devotes to the topic. * I meant to blog about this months ago […]

"Are We All Austrians Now?"

So asks von Pepe. The first oddity he noticed was Arnold Kling’s discussion of James Hamilton’s work stressing “technological frictions.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like he’s stressing the capital heterogeneity of the Austrian school. And then today John Taylor has an extremely ABCTish op ed in the WSJ. I realize the […]

Tom Woods and Burt Folsom on Glenn Beck

Woo hoo! I am friends with Tom via Mises Institute and Burt via Hillsdale College. I relied heavily on Burt’s book for my own (forthcoming) book on the Depression, and although I haven’t read it yet, I’m sure Tom’s book is awesome.

The Merciful God of the "Old Testament"

I’m putting that in quotation marks because our theology teacher (in my Catholic high school) once told us, “Don’t call it that in front of a Jewish person!” But I asked my Jewish neighbor one time if he would be insulted and he said no. In church today the (assistant) pastor was going through various […]

Does the Salmonella Outbreak Prove the Need for Bigger Government?

Earlier I blogged about the Georgia peanut butter plant (I love that misleading phrase) and how leftists automatically assumed it proved the need for a stronger FDA, when a hardcore libertarian would argue that it shows you can’t trust government to keep your food (or your planes) safe. Today at LRC’s blog David Kramer offers […]

Three Articles From Readers

Now that the book manuscript is turned in, I am attending to the black hole known as my Inbox. Here are three items of interest: * Arthur Foulkes (not related to Guy Fawkes) sent his column giving a great critique of Keynesianism for the layperson. * Foulkes also sent this Keynesian professor’s response. * Brian […]

Where to Start Reading for a Free Market Education?

I get this question a lot, so it makes sense for me to blog the answer. Whether you’re a homeschooling parent or a nerdy teenager who decides that learning is more important than dating, here is my suggested approach to learning free market economics in general, and Austrian economics in particular. Note that I am […]