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Tyler Cowen on Health Care: So Close, Yet So Far Away

I knock Tyler Cowen a lot far not being “hardcore” enough on the free market. So I do want to say I’ve been very impressed by how much he’s sticking his neck out in opposing ObamaCare (or PelosiCare or whatever slur you want to use). And yet, poor Tyler can’t bring himself to just say, […]

CNBC: "3.7% Annualized Inflation Rate Is Tame"

On its main page CNBC linked to this article with the headline “Inflation at Bay as Wholesale Prices Remain Tame.” As with just about every blurb of this nature, I have to ask: What is the cutoff point at which inflation is not at bay? From the article: U.S. producer prices rose more slowly than […]

Jeffrey Tucker Continues His Assault on IP

I admit there are still some areas that make me uneasy, but ever since reading Stephan Kinsella’s “Against Intellectual Property” [.pdf] I have thought IP cannot stand. At Mises.org Jeff Tucker goes over one of the latest absurdities flowing from the principle of owning ideas: Some Harvard professors are taking very seriously their “intellectual property […]

The Economic Consensus on Climate Change Legislation?

Agnostic readers will be relieved to see that I have an IER post that does not mention the Holy Spirit: The Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI) recently released a survey [.pdf] of 144 leading economists who have published peer-reviewed articles on climate change. In the media blitz accompanying the release of the study, IPI spokespeople […]

Another Bailout on FDIC’s Plate?

(HT2 Peter Klein)

The Hope of Victory

Inspired by true events, I wrote up this article for LRC. Lots of love/hate mail on this one so far. An excerpt: [T]his clever answer doesn’t really solve the problem of evil. Is it really true that a secular humanist, armed with all the knowledge of economics, could convince a David Rockefeller or a Henry […]

Potpourri

* Is gold going to crash? EPJ says that Goldman was short gold mining stocks when outsiders last peeked. So do they know something we don’t, or were they just helping the Plunge Protection Team to slow down gold’s meteoric ascent? (And don’t meteors crash into the ground? Shouldn’t we call it gold’s carbon dioxidic […]

Is the Christian God a Tyrant?

In last week’s post someone remarked: Ultimately, I am anti-totalitarian. For various reasons, I view both the Judeo-Christian God and the State as ultimately striving for totalitarianism. Therefore, I am both anti-theist and anti-statist. And I feel that those who are one and not the other to be fundamentally saying, “there is no good case […]