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Sorry for the scant blogging, but I’m in the middle of a move to Texas. In six months, when you see the prodigious output of academic journal articles, you will thank me. (Or not.) Anyway: ==> I have a new Cato working paper on carbon taxes. I co-authored it with climate scientists Pat Michaels and […]

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==> Jeffrey Rogers Hummel on backdoor reserve requirements via Basel. BTW, I don’t like the Alchian & Allen argument that Jeff quotes; I think it gets things backwards when it comes to the function of reserve requirements. But that quibble aside, Jeff is an encyclopedia on the details of central banks. ==> I can’t remember […]

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==> “The Fed and Oil Prices.” This posted Monday morning, and I actually wrote it in mid-month. (You can tell from the opening news hook, which doesn’t mention the U.S. stock market.) Anyway, a neat chart in there showing Fed’s balance sheet versus oil prices. ==> I continue to push back on Sumner’s “what bubble?” […]

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==> Rand Paul and Mark Spitznagel vs. the Fed. ==> This Telegraph piece makes a compelling case for building your bunker. (HT2 Zero Hedge, I think) ==> Did I already link to this? I think Scott Alexander here is getting things backwards. Is this worth me pursuing? ==> Nick Rowe again showing that he eats […]

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==> How do you guys feel about this geologist who predicted the EPA spill? ==> Richard Ebeling on John Stuart Mill. ==> I thought I would write on this, but I just don’t have time. For a while, Paul Romer & Friends were criticizing the modern Chicago School for being lawyers rather than scientists when […]

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==> I don’t know this guy personally, but he is a “colleague of colleagues” and his story about typical police treatment of a black driver certainly sounds quite sincere. Interesting reading. ==> Can anybody confirm that this charge against Rand Paul is correct? (They are saying he deliberately quoted the Ayatollah out of context in […]

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==> This podcast was not nearly as sultry as the image suggests. ==> Ron Paul responds to Paul Krugman’s “Old Man and the CPI.” (My own post coming soon…) ==> Tom Woods interviews Carlos Morales, a former Child Protective Services (CPS) worker. This is really good stuff for filling in a big hole in libertarian […]

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==> Alex Tabarrok relays some surprising facts about apartment hunting in Stockholm. ==> Tabarrok twin spin: Here he reviews a book on more effective altruism. ==> Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne was the “mystery guest” (via Skype) at Mises University this year. He pointed us to this Politico article, saying this reporter was the first mainstream […]