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Bryan Caplan Must Be Stopped…No Matter the Cost

[UPDATE: I took the ellipses out of the URL so now you can comment.] (That is an old school Transformers movie reference…) Not only has Bryan continued to preach his doctrine that “parents don’t matter” at EconLog, he now wants to elevate his views to penumbra status: In one of my talks at the 2011 […]

Tom Woods Has Still Got It

Holy cow Tom is amazing in this interview with Dennis Miller. If some of you up-and-coming libertarians wonder, “Why is Tom such a big deal, and I’m stuck arguing with people on Bob’s blog?”, here’s your answer. I am not even going to spell out all the subtle nuances in how he managed to intrigue […]

Yet Another Person Loses His Job Over a Tasteless Joke

As someone who regrets things blogged or spoken at least once a week, I am disturbed by this trend whereby people make a joke in poor taste and then have to resign. Part of it is that it’s so random: There must be thousands of people a day who Tweet things that could cost them […]

#Jan25

Yo yo yo, this song goes out to Jeff Tucker and all the other virtual revolutionaries around the world. Free your mind and the rest follows.

Network Lock-In Bask

OK kids, I recently took the plunge and got a MacBook–refurbished because I’m cheap. I am still waiting for disaster to strike, as I leave the tender bosom of Bill Gates. (My compromise was that I installed MS Office on this intriguing, lightweight, elegant, and very white machine.) So here’s a dumb question: What is […]

Paging Bill Woolsey on the Fed’s Accounting Skullduggery

Like the Spaniard in The Princess Bride knew he needed the Man in Black, when I try to parse the Fed’s notorious January 6 accounting change, I know I need the economist who wrote this article (“Who Owns the Fed?”). So here’s the Fed’s announcement, with my placeholders and bolding added: The Board’s H.4.1 statistical […]

Do I Unfairly Pick on the Government?

Someone sent me the below email (reprinted with permission): I am in the middle of chapter 3 Lessons for the Young Economist. So far I think it is a fantastic piece of work. The arguments are presented in a clear, unassailable manner that promotes true insight and understanding. I love the way it boils down […]

I Agree With Krugman

…when he writes: [M]onetarists — old-style Friedman-type monetarists who focus on monetary aggregates, or the new style which says that the Fed can and should target nominal GDP — are, whether they realize it or not, part of the axis of monetary evil as far as the demand-deniers are concerned. They may believe that they […]