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What Is the Probability That Caplan Knows What He’s Talking About?

Ah, Monday morning, the start of another week. That means: time to mock a GMU economics professor! This installment of (what I’ve come to realize is) my mission in life concerns Bryan Caplan’s post on the Paulson bailout, made the day after the House voted it down: We’re still likely to see a bail-out in […]

Pat Buchanan Blames Cheap Goods and Workers for Republican Defeat

Usually I agree with Pat Buchanan, and plus I love his laugh. But I was flabbergasted to read in this column that he attributes the Republicans’ loss not to a foreign empire, not to a mountain of spending that would impress LBJ, not to a bank bailout, but to…(get ready)…low tariffs and open borders. Ta […]

Another Post Containing Possibly Useful Advice

In an article that is surely tongue-in-cheek, Jeff Tucker reveals his deepest anxiety: The fear is that while walking [in the park] and enjoying the day, a ball from one of these groups will inadvertently roll your way. Everyone on the team has his eye on that ball, which is now at your feet. You […]

Another Post on Why Kids Are the Key to the Kingdom of God

My son (almost four) has developed this obnoxious habit where he repeats the same #)($# sentence indefinitely, until something changes the situation. For example, if we’re going to school (where his favorite friend is Ainsley) he’ll say, “You wanna go school find Ainsley!” in the car, over and over and over and over…, from the […]

Great Depression II?

In this TownHall piece I repeat arguments that I have been making here and in interviews for a while now, but if nothing else I thought the TownHall readers should get a link to the scary FRED graph on monetary base:

Obama Is No Peacenik

I have been warning Obama fans that he is not the anti-Bush when it comes to foreign policy. Justin Raimondo makes a much more informed case than I could.

Michael Crichton, 1942-2008

Earlier this week, Michael Crichton died. (I tried linking to his website the day it happened, but it was getting overwhelmed with traffic.) I know the people at RealClimate can’t stand him, but Michael Crichton was a very knowledgeable guy, in addition to writing some cool stories. Here is a talk he gave about global […]

"Did the Fed Cause the Housing Bubble?" Henderson & Hummel vs. Murphy: This Time, It’s Personal

OK I have been putting this off for a few days, hoping to get time to “do it right.” Well, that’s not going to happen; I’m sitting in a hotel room at 6:00 local time, I got out of bed about 16 hours ago, I still have two official work projects to do, plus I […]