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Why the Rothbardians Will Win

[UPDATE below.] Wow I have been out of academia too long. I was just trying to buy Steve Horwitz’s book on free banking, and Tyler Cowen’s book on business cycles. They are each at least $170 used on Amazon. (Tyler’s book is 184 pages, while Horwitz’s is 228 pages. And though they are hardcover, I […]

Glenn Greenwald, Become a Libertarian!

Wow I feel Glenn Greenwald’s pain. Lately he has been in an argument with “moderate” liberals over Obama’s capitulation on important progressive goals. (The thing you need to remember, is that Barack Obama is a “liberal” the same way George W. Bush was a “conservative.”) The moderates have been pooh-poohing the “fanatics” on the Left […]

Bruce Bartlett Apparently Just Graduated From the Joe Romm School of Blogging

So Jeff Hummel has long argued that it would be a good thing if the US Treasury defaulted on its bonds. Bruce Bartlett wrote a response in which he strongly implied that anyone who thinks such a thing is a nutjob, though he worded it very carefully so he could plausibly deny it (as David […]

Money vs. Wealth

I heard the host and a guest on NPR’s “Marketplace” talking about people taking their money out of stocks and putting it into checking accounts, so I thought I’d set them straight. But the “user contributed tag” at the end of the article says: “this is dumb as hell you seriously dont understand basic economics […]

Toy Story 3 Is Amazing

We saw it on Sunday, and I was blown away. I don’t want to say anything else and spoil it. But if you have kids in the right age group, and you generally like the worldview of this blog, then I think this is a movie worth seeing in the theaters. One guy actually clapped […]

Consumer Sovereignty

OK kids, I have a bunch of Mises.org potential articles in that nether region between my cerebrum and the Institute’s server. I will eventually do all of these topics, but I’m not sure which order. Any preferences? * The claim that our financial system requires the creation of ever more money so that people can […]

Uh Oh, Can I Retract My Letter to Obama?

Just yesterday I dropped a letter in the mailbox, asking President Obama if he had any advice for how I could spread the ideas of anarcho-capitalism. Should I not have done that?

Hoisted on My Own Petard

Or is it by my own petard? I was so busy being hoisted, I forgot to check… My blogging is still going to be sparse for at least a few more days, because I’ve got a bunch of deadlines and miles to go before I sleep. But I had to document a conversation with my […]