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Potpourri

OK my Potpourri-links holder was starting to resemble the Fed’s balance sheet, so time to dump: * Bryan Caplan shows you how to get on TV [.pdf] without even shaving. * Robert Wenzel explains how the government will crash the housing market–again. * Apparently Iran’s nuclear development is similar to the planet’s “running out of […]

NYU’s Divergent Offspring: An Experiment in Austrian vs. Mainstream Economics

Von Pepe sent me this WSJ survey of economists about the economy in 2010. Michael Feroli of J.P. Morgan Chase predicted: ““We’ll have above-trend growth, low inflation, and the fed on hold through 2010.” This is interesting because Mike was the only other American in my cohort in NYU’s PhD program. It was Mike who […]

Free Advice for My Fellow Bloggers

Bryan Caplan is getting a lot of links and commentary for his suggestions of books his colleagues should write. After the burning jealousy of all this attention subsided, I realized that I too should offer such a list. So here are books or long essays that I think various people should write in the new […]

Senator Dodd Likely to Drop Out; Free Advice for Peter Schiff Campaign

CNBC reports: Leading Democratic Senator Christopher J. Dodd, chairman of the Banking Committee, will announce Wednesday that he is retiring, NBC News has learned. It is likely that once Dodd announces his decision, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal told CNBC he will run for Dodd’s former Senate seat, but Blumenthal stopped short of formally announcing […]

When Murphy Debates McKitrick, the Temperature Rises

OK the post title was awful, I admit it. On my MasterResource post criticizing Ross McKitrick’s proposal to tie a carbon tax to observed temperature changes, McKitrick posted the following comment: Hello Bob and others, I’d like to respond to some of the points made here. The main concern I have in reading your posting […]

"A Savvy Bond Man Bets on Rising Inflation"

John Cochran (not the Chicago guy, the Vienna guy) sent me this wonderful WSJ article from Dec. 26 profiling Bill Tedford. For longtime readers, just look at how many of Tedford’s points are the same things I’ve been harping on: Bill Tedford is encouraging investors to bet against remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, […]

A Critique of Ross McKitrick’s Proposal to Tax Temperature

At MasterResource today I critique economist Ross McKitrick’s proposal to tie CO2 taxes to global temperatures. (His idea is that if manmade global warming is really serious, then the tax will rise accordingly. But if it turns out the critics of the IPCC are right, then the tax will automatically stay modest.) Here’s the finale: […]

Say What You Will About Monarchies, At Least They Understood Free Trade

I am working on a book project with Bill Peterson on democracy. He sent me a copy of Hans Hoppe’s Democracy: The God That Failed, which somehow I never managed to read up until now. I have seen so many of Hoppe’s lectures at the Mises Institute that I figured I already knew what was […]