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==> We at the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech are hosting an IHS seminar on American democracy. You can register even up till the last minute, so come on down. I’ll be talking about secession on Saturday, but all the talks look good. ==> Glenn Greenwald on the depressing consistency of Obama-Trump when it […]

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==> The alert von Pepe sends me this Peter Boettke post relaying Samuelson, who claimed that Mises would’ve won a Nobel had it been offered early enough. Very interesting. ==> Now that Trump is doing genuinely alarming things, I will be able to join in the opposition on some of his policies. But I have […]

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==> The IER team (including me) respond to Obama’s article in Science. ==> A proposed Bill of Children’s Rights in California. ==> Steve Landsburg writes a touching reflection on McCloskey as a teacher at Chicago. I nitpick in the comments. ==> Bryan Caplan makes a great point about the California grocery bag rule: It’s not […]

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==> Tom Woods has me on his show (not to be confused with Contra Krugman) to talk about ObamaCare’s claimed success. ==> I am the Voldemort of climate change economics (i.e. this refers to me, but not by name). ==> Very interesting Jacob Hornberger article on Trump vs. the CIA.

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==> Rob Bradley talks about Exxon and its support for a carbon tax. (Did you know that?) ==> Very interesting Reason podcast with Glenn Greenwald. Note in particular how Greenwald (and I believe Snowden also) disagree with Assange’s policy to just dump everything on WikiLeaks, as opposed to the way Greenwald and Snowden carefully released […]

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==> My latest IER post provides your Krugman fix while you wait for another podcast episode… An excerpt: As the four figures indicate, according to various metrics air quality in the United States had been improving well before the creation of the EPA and passage of the Clean Air Act. We have no reason to […]

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==> On the latest episode of Contra Krugman, Tom and I are a bunch of softies and mostly agree with Krugman about the tough spot Republicans are in, vis-a-vis ObamaCare. ==> A long interview I did with Scott Horton on all kinds of stuff. ==> Dan Mitchell of CATO discusses new research showing that “fiscal […]

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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 […]