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==> Larry Reed, president of FEE, gives a talk to the Young Americans for Liberty on his new book. ==> Well that’s kind of surprising…the headline says former ObamaCare chief to head insurance lobby. ==> Tom Woods talks to Jeremy Hammond about Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman. ==> A description of my new book.

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==> Justin Mohr asks me about the Great Depression. ==> Tyler Cowen posted this interesting excerpt on ACA (“ObamaCare”) enrollment. ==> Like Walter Block, Daniel Kuehn hates the term “market failure.” ==> MK Lords is disillusioned with certain elements of libertarianism. Just to warn all of you, after I get caught up on my day […]

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==> Tell me this isn’t the funniest headline for a real study. I have known this about male economists for a while. Women should not emulate them. No amount of career success is worth your soul, ladies! ==> I was googling a topic and stumbled across this National Review article from back in January, where […]

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==> Commenter Keshav pointed to this 2013 Steve Landsburg post in which he anticipated the spirit of my recent FEE article. I definitely knew that Landsburg was the first person I had read making the point about minimum wage burdening a small group (employers) to achieve a social goal (helping unskilled workers) instead of society […]

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==> Corie Stephens argues that feds honestly had no idea the states wouldn’t just roll over and enact ObamaCare exchanges. I would love to see your links to the best articles making the other side’s case, i.e. claiming that it was a typo. ==> If the claims in this post are right, the alleged “97% […]

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==> Dan Sanchez has a great post on ISIS and its debt to Washington, DC. ==> David R. Henderson on two recent cases of government working badly. ==> Bryan Caplan talks about Frances Wooley’s good critique of how economists teach public goods. ==> Also, on my last post I linked to my Mises CA post […]

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==> Richard Ebeling doesn’t like trigger words. ==> Bryan Caplan catches an amazing piece on Paul Ehrlich. ==> Scott Sumner often seems incapable of understanding where his critics are coming from. In this post, for example, Sumner deals with Austan Goolsbee, who had posited a situation where real GDP growth is flat (because of a […]

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==> David R. Henderson replies (or did he issue a rejoinder?) on the question of a stock market bubble. Let me clarify my position: I am saying it wouldn’t surprise me (and indeed would be a repeat of recent history) if the market crashed in the next few years, then the Fed blew up another […]