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I Write Six Days a Week, and Rest on the Sabbath

Lately I have tried to do a better job of “observing the Sabbath,” meaning that I try not to work on Sundays. As a consultant, I never have a vacation. At any given time, there is always something I could be doing (or at least get the wheels moving) to bring in more revenue. Currently […]

Update

Hey kids, just to let you know, I am swamped with “real work” for the foreseeable future. (I’m even busier than this guy.) Also, if it works out, I will be migrating the blog to WordPress during my hiatus. For anyone in the area, I am giving a talk at the Denver Petroleum Club on […]

Boosting Productivity By Ditching the Boob Tube

Lately people have been asking me how I get “so much” done. This always strikes me as funny since, at any given time, I’m usually behind on several projects. One obvious thing is that we have not had a TV in our house since we left Hillsdale. (And even then, we didn’t have cable and […]

Potpourri

* This blew me away: Joe Salerno discusses Murray Rothbard’s call for anti-statists to pull their money out of the commercial banking system. OK, so let’s suppose Austro-libertarians agree that they should stop the inflating Fed in its tracks by boycotting the commercial banks. But what is the free market alternative? (Don’t think tax-qualified retirement […]

Onion Reports: Obama Caught Lip-Synching Speech

This made me chuckle three separate times, and that’s good enough for government-bashing work. (HT2 Viresh Amin)

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Lies

This is hilarious. Lew Rockwell sends along the Cleveland Fed’s latest video in its, “Really bad drawings, real simple explanation” series (check the link if you think I’m making up the title). It’s 9 minutes long so maybe that’s too much for you, but at least watch it through 3:55 to see the graph of […]

Bernanke Still Breaking Records

Reports of the imminent collapse of the monetary base have thus far been greatly exaggerated… I’m not saying that Bernanke was lying when he claimed the base would start shrinking real soon, I just want to point out that it wouldn’t be the first time.

This Is Potentially the Screwiest GDP Chart I’ve Ever Seen

Paul Krugman links to Mark Thoma who in turn cribs from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Fran to give us… The definition of “potential GDP” comes from the San Fran bank: Potential output is not a measure of maximum output that can be achieved, but instead maximum sustainable output. As such, it is the […]