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ATTENTION BOSTONIANS! Last-minute Switch

In an effort to thwart the feds in the nondescript van outside the building, Bob Wenzel and I are implementing a last-minute change in the location of our evening talk here in downtown Boston. Originally, the talk was to be held at the Omni Parker. But we are moving the evening talk to a restaurant […]

Revamped Blog

Incidentally, a few months ago I hired someone to revamp my blog. I never got around to mentioning him. So here’s Doug Stuart’s info: Doug is a blogger who writes about life, the universe, and everything, and a part time designer who has worked in print, web, and video. His background is in communications and technology […]

Mish Archives?

Quick, silly question: Does anybody know how I can scroll an archive of Mish’s blog posts? I spent a good 5 minutes looking all over his blog, and I don’t see such an option. For example, suppose I want to see what he was saying about oil prices back in early 2009. Right now I’m […]

Potpourri

* Jim Manzi has a great little post on controlled experiments and economics. But then he ends with, “But there is an unconsidered alternative that permits us to constantly recognize our ignorance, yet not be paralyzed: The Open Society. This is the whole point (in my view) of the institutions of representative democracy, limited, law-bound […]

State of the Murphy-Krugman Campaign

Thanks everyone who has donated so far; we’ve got $652 pledged as of this writing. Incidentally, some of you have probably noticed this video on LRC. It was created before mine, but I hadn’t seen it when I created mine using the same characters. Now when Peter Thiel donates $10,000 to the campaign, we’re going […]

“I can’t believe it! I don’t know a single person who voted for Reagan!”

Such was apparently the reaction of some liberal in 1980, according to a conservative writer I read a long time ago. I was reminded of this anecdote when reading Tom Woods discuss his upcoming Phoenix appearance: Tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 7:00pm I’ll be speaking at Grand Canyon University, Antelope Gymnasium, on the free market and […]

Will Smith Thinks He Can Beat Up Mike Tyson

(Song reference.) This was a very pleasant surprise. Normally what happens is that I like the performance of an actor, and then can’t stand the guy when he opens his mouth in an interview. Yet I had the opposite reaction to this collage, which a reader emailed me.

Bask On Nobel

Someone told me that one of the Nobelists had a NYT article very recently in which he explained that their work does NOT say that unemployment benefits from the government necessarily raise the unemployment rate. But I can’t find any such article. Any help?