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==> Silas Barta wants to keep Steve Landsburg honest on disaster economics. (Incidentally Bryan Caplan recently asked his readers to see if they ever find themselves objecting to unfair arguments used against “the other side,” and say what you will about Silas and me, but we often do just that. However, in both cases that […]

Money Is a Spontaneous Order Not a Social Contrivance

Everybody has been talking about this “is money a bubble?” controversy. (Nick Rowe, in addition to being awesome on OLG apple models, is also good at linking everybody in this debate.) I want to make two main points: (1) This isn’t even about fiat money per se. Even if we’re talking about gold, once it […]

Callahan’s Unsustainable Attacks on Nick Rowe

Gene has been annoying me in the debate on a topic that shall no longer be mentioned on this blog (for calendar 2012 at least), with post titles suggesting that Nick Rowe is unfamiliar with the history of economic thought. Then in this post Gene accused Rowe of “arrogantly insisting” on the importance of his […]

My Final Word (This Generation): The DEBT Really Is Fundamental

If you have begun skipping these, I ask you to read this final word from me. This is new stuff.–RPM OK kids don’t worry, this is going to be out of my system now, unless Krugman or somebody puts up something new. But I really wanted to illustrate the epiphany I had last Friday, which […]

Debt Burdens: How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes

You guys aren’t going to believe it, but I have had another epiphany. The debt and future generations issue is like this: At first I was deeply troubled, because I realized that I had said at least two false things in my arguments with Ken B. today, and that I had unfairly dismissed a point […]