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==> My reflections on Trump’s victory. ==> David R. Henderson and David Friedman discuss semi-private military defense in Estonia. ==> Mark Skousen sends me this analysis of the government’s Gross Output (GO) figures, which Skousen argues measure the “Hayekian triangle.” (In contrast, GDP effectively only measures the final stage, consumption, if we are in a […]

Defenses of Trade Deficits That Could Mask Danger

This EconLog post from Scott Sumner, and the accompanying post from Don Boudreaux, provide much useful pushback against typical worries about trade deficits. However, Sumner in particular makes some strong claims that are misleading, and the two posts together could understandably make critics think that free traders are naive and distracting people from a genuine […]

Time Machine Bask

I am sorry to post this here, but the stuff via Google search seems unhelpful. I have a MacBook Air. When I first plugged in an external Seagate USB 3.0 drive back in May, Time Machine knew to automatically back up the whole thing. Great. Now, whenever I try to plug the Seagate back in […]

Two Snarky Comments on Sumner

With all of my traveling this summer, I worry that Scott Sumner feels I am neglecting him. (After all, I have a weekly podcast devoted to Krugman–have I forgotten my Market Monetarist friends?) So as to partially rectify my benign neglect, here are two snarky comments on recent Sumner posts: ==> In this post responding […]

Debate Starting Shortly

I’m debating Vox Day on free trade, moderated by Tom Woods. We start at 7:30pm Eastern. Details here. Tom is also going to run this on his show at some point.

Ask Me Anything

Yikes! Forgot to post this. C’mon in kids.

IER Analysis of Obama’s Proposed $10 per Barrel Tax on Oil

Here.

Did Jesus and the Early Christian Church Renounce Violence Against Non-Believers?

Bryan Caplan is sure that they didn’t. In a recent post at EconLog, he first quotes Nathan Smith who wrote: The Old Testament, to be sure, contains some hair-raising passages that seem very much opposed to religious freedom, but that’s part of the Mosaic law, which St. Paul’s epistles clearly and insistently establish is not […]