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Holy Apology, Batman!

Oops. I went off the handle on Tyler Cowen and Bryan Caplan because of their over-the-top denunciations of Michael Chabon’s decision to get his son circumcised. In particular, I couldn’t believe Bryan described reading the section as seeing “the face of evil.” Well, I just read the relevant chapter last night, and yeah, I see […]

SNL Clip on a Lazy Sunday

I’m sure this is quite dated but if you don’t have a TV, it’s new to you too… (HT2 Thinklings)

The Gold Standard and the Great Depression

Krugman had been bashing gold for a while, so I rushed to its defense. Wherever there is a commodity in distress, I’ll be there.

Those Evil Insurers

I’m not going to get the wording exactly right, but at the bottom of the hour the AM news break featured a reporter saying something like this: A new study shows that women in Tennessee are having a hard time getting insurance because…they’re women. The study put out by Blah Blah Blah found that women […]

A Little Stimulus Arithmetic

As is my wont, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today as I ate my Arby’s sandwich. (I always get the Market Fresh ones; my body is a temple.) He was complaining about some news story in which the Obama administration’s claimed 30,000 jobs “created or saved” by some stimulus spending turned out to be […]

Holy Melodrama Batman!

Author Michael Chabon has apparently written a horrifying work of nonfiction. Here’s Tyler Cowen’s blurb about the book: “I ended up enjoying this more than I do his trendy fiction. This supposed paean to family life collapses quickly into narcissism, but that’s in fact what makes it work. I was surprised but not shocked by […]

Robert Wenzel Reads My Critique and Decides to End It All

…or something like that. I have a similar tale involving a ladder, near-death, and utter stupidity. My last year at NYU, I lived upstairs in my grandma’s house in Copiague. I was out late drinking and being a hooligan (as all economics PhD students do) and then had to ride the Long Island Railroad for […]

It’s All About Framing

The 3q GDP numbers are out, and Robert Wenzel lets his readers know who the better economic forecaster is: Gross domestic product grew at a 3.5 percent annual rate in 3Q. This does not surprise me. In fact, I have a bet with Bob Murphy, made in January, that it would. This is what I […]