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"…and I’ll form the head [of the ad campaign]!"

Ah, the Internet is so great for marketing. How much do you think the following YouTube allowed this artist to bump up the price on this Voltron? And for those waxing nostalgic, here ya go–and be sure to note how fast and loose they play with the different astronomical units. It goes from Voltron being […]

Can You Tell Marxists from Misesians?

Here is an interesting quiz on which I did barely better than randomly guessing. In my defense, I think I tried to be too clever, i.e. if something seemed “obviously” written by a Marxist, I guessed it was the Austrian. Oh well.

My Favorite Goldbug Conspiracy Theory

(Note that the title is mostly for fun; I don’t think these guys are crazy or anything.) I have been on the gold bandwagon for a while now. Some of us (perhaps after a period of being oblivious) were alert to the dangers and thus recommended to people, “You want to own gold. Once everyone […]

Roissy’s Non Sequitur

“Roissy in DC” gives us his answer to the meaning of life: hedonism. Roissy starts out by assuming there is no afterlife or supreme being, and then concludes (HT2MR): My answer to the philosophical question I posed above is hedonism. It is the only rational conclusion one can draw faced with the premises I presented. […]

Welfare Is Bad for Automobile Companies, Too

So I argue in today’s Buffalo News. BTW there is a surprise in this article for long-time Free Advice readers…

Tyler Cowen Comes to His Senses

Cowen has been on fire lately at MR. Maybe he is countercyclical in his musings; when a “free market” Administration is in power, Cowen says all sorts of things that annoy me, but now that a pump-priming Democrat is about to assume power, Cowen is writing all sorts of critiques of Keynesianism. Whatever the reason, […]

Proponents of "Green Jobs" Need to Read Bastiat

At IER we are preparing a critique of some of the leading “green jobs” studies. Perhaps the most important was put out by the Center for American Progress. A colleague sent me this response they gave to a Heritage Foundation / WSJ critique of their study. They don’t even acknowledge that their plan costs anything; […]

Brad DeLong Doesn’t Even Know Who He’s Dealing With

UPDATE below. In this well-reasoned post, Brad DeLong says Mises’ Theory of Money and Credit is “readable in a rhetorical-excess-train-wreck mode, for it is also totally bats— insane.” (BTW, because of my charming innocence, upon my first reading I didn’t even catch the “bats—” adverb. [You want to say batsh*t is a noun, but I’m […]