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Tom Woods and Stefan Molyneux

I had this going while I balanced my checkbook yesterday. Good stuff. Tom makes some eloquent points, and Stefan has a few hilarious one-liners. The only strange thing is that Stefan seems to be constipated throughout the interview; watch his face as Tom speaks.

Forget Chris Christie: Republican Businessmen Should Draft Robert Johnson

The founder of BET talks common sense, and he might actually get away with it because, well you know why:

Report From Greece

Matthew Nakas is a fan of the Austrians who was at the recent conference in Vienna. Then he visited his family in Greece. He sent me this email: I am in Greece right now and things are really interesting to say the least. This nation is tense and at some point there will be a […]

My Favorite Newscaster in Slovakia

If someone can figure out how to embed this video, that would be cool.

Murphy Retracing Mises’ Footsteps

I’m in Vienna for the Mises Institute’s Supporters Summit. I am going to force myself to be super productive by not paying for internet access in the room. (I can get online for free in the lobby, so that’s where I’ll get my materials and then go to the room and actually work.) Thus blogging […]

David Friedman Perpetuates the “Buy and Hold” Myth

David Friedman has a very interesting post up concerning equity versus bonds. Whenever economists start thinking about the stock market, we get tied into knots. (In this case, Friedman ends up concluding that profiting from insider trading is mathematically impossible, and not for the reason you might think.) I’m not criticizing Friedman on that score, […]

A Note on Emails

A lot of you occasionally send me emails through the blog submission form. That is great, and I welcome them. I read them all too (eventually). But I am in the (un)fortunate position where I just can’t justify using my scarce office time to answer them all. So, if you send me something (like a […]

Doug French: An Angel or Devil?

I am very underwater on my house and I would like to believe Doug French when he says I should walk away, but I can’t help but feel that it would be dishonest if I did so. Doug has a bunch of good arguments explaining that the mortgage market is run by the government, that […]