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==> Scott Sumner agreed that I checkmated him, but for some reason took it really well. ==> Oh no… Alex Tabarrok too has succumbed to the “open borders” label. OK let me try it this way: Hey everybody, let’s start a movement called “Open Bank Vaults.” Now some of you are going to get huffy […]

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==> I am pretty sure this is checkmate for Scott’s attempt to reason from a price change regarding the ECB. Note, I’m not claiming I’ve won the whole tournament–just this particular game. ==> I break out my undergrad Public Choice text to argue that the work of Niskanen is at serious tension with (some of) […]

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==> His resolve weakens: Scott Sumner admits that there is a non-trivial chance that my monetary views are correct. ==> The media are going nuts over the revelation that one of the leading climate change “deniers” failed to disclose his funding from fossil fuel companies, because obviously this should lead us to doubt his […]

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==> Mark Spitznagel doesn’t believe in “black swans” when it comes to market crashes. ==> Christopher Goins in the American Spectator talks to Mark Thornton about the Fed. ==> Remember that lady who lost her job when she tweeted about AIDS and Africa? Turns out she was being ironic. (At the time I thought it […]

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==> At Mises CA I have a short note on John Bugas, a colorful character who embraced the notion of consumer sovereignty as a way of defending capitalism. ==> Chip Knappenberger and Pat Michaels evaluate the climate models. ==> Plosser wants to raise short-term rates sooner rather than later. My kind of central planner! ==> My […]

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==> At IER, I tag Steve Landsburg to jump in on the gas tax question. ==> David R. Henderson brings to our attention this excellent analysis about the controversial pass call on the goal line. One of the things that most annoys me about Facebook is that everyone suddenly becomes a better football coach than […]

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==> My latest at Mises CA, urging caution about that neat Texas jobs growth graphic that’s been floating around. ==> David Beckworth–who wants a kinder, gentler Market Monetarism–sent me Bill Woolsey’s reply to my stuff about Switzerland. Sure, as with any intervention, you could do follow-up interventions to postpone the bad consequences. In this case, […]

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==> Just an announcement, kids, I’m scaling back my frequency of posts at Mises CA; I’m just too busy. If you want to take your hand at it, feel free to pitch ideas to them at contact@mises.ca. They often get picked up by ZeroHedge if that matters. ==> Someone else made a print version of […]