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Glenn Beck Ambushes Debra Medina

This is very interesting. I was driving to work today and heard the opening of Glenn Beck’s interview with Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina. Right off the bat something seemed a little odd to me. I’m paraphrasing, but he introduced her along these lines: GLENN BECK paraphrase: “Now just a few weeks ago this person […]

"Mozart Was a Red": A One Act Play by Murray Rothbard

This is awesome. I can’t figure out how to embed the video but some Friends of the Mises Institute put on Rothbard’s satire of Ayn Rand’s inner circle a long time ago. Check out Jeff Tucker as Nathaniel Branden!!

Fed’s Interventions as Well-Planned as Iraq Invasion

I realize CNBC articles are just about useless in terms of understanding the Fed’s actual actions, but nonetheless why wouldn’t a statement like this concern regular Joes? The Federal Reserve could begin pulling back its unprecedented stimulus for the U.S. economy by first removing some cash from the financial system and then raising interest rates, […]

Mike Munger and Art Carden Need to Study Incentives

Wow! I can’t believe it! In the Washington Post a writer got away with this hard-hitting analysis: We’re very familiar with a model of Congress in which legislators disagree over policy and that causes them to vote against one another. We’re much more concerned by the idea that they don’t disagree at all, but are […]

Touring San Jose

After being taped for a documentary on the Fed, I went over to San Jose State University to have dinner with David R. Henderson and Mark Brady. (Jeff Hummel was teaching money & banking so couldn’t make it.) On the way to Mark’s office I passed a lecture and thought I recognized the professor and […]

The Recession Isn’t Over

[UPDATE below.] For the documentary on the Fed, I spent about 5 hours under the hot lights today with the cameras rolling. I will never criticize a politician for saying something dumb on the campaign trail; I’m not sure I could have recited my date of birth by the end of this ordeal. Hopefully the […]

The Race Against Government

In this article I was trying to go for a saucy new take on things we all take for granted, but I suppose it’s possible it would convince many people that economists are jerks: I have similar misgivings about the way my school got us kids to raise money when I was growing up. I […]

Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen, #2209

I am in a hotel in San Jose. Tomorrow I will be interviewed for a long time for the documentary on the Fed. The strategy is that if you keep a camera on me for 4 hours, surely I’ll say something profound. This post is not going to be bulletproof by any stretch, but I […]