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==> I am late in announcing this blogger Scott Alexander, but he is fantastic. (A bunch of econ bloggers were praising him about a month ago.) He is very sharp but beyond that he illustrates his points with numerous links to show he’s not attacking a strawman (or woman). For example, here he talks about […]

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==> I’ve been really enjoying Tom Woods’ show lately. Not to downplay the other guests, but make sure you catch Michael Malice on the cops and Scott Horton on the Senate torture report. ==> Speaking of the torture report, apparently Americans aren’t too worried about it. And Dick Cheney explicitly says that he would rather […]

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==> In case you didn’t have the stomach to investigate, at least check out these excerpts from the Senate torture report. If you just watched Fox News, you would think they poured some water on Bin Laden’s head. But no, their methods included prisoners losing an eye and literally freezing to death, and the interrogators […]

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==> The econosphere is hotly debating this new paper, which uses a clever “natural experiment” method to conclude that if the government passes a law making something more expensive, then (a) the thing becomes more expensive but (b) people buy less of it. ==> In terms not just of shocking police behavior but then the […]

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==> Tom Woods has some great material (cribbed from Jeff Herbener) on the claim that the recovery from the 1920-21 depression was merely caused by loose monetary policy. Just to clarify, no Austrian is denying that the Fed inflated during the 1920s and that the “Roaring Twenties” was partially built on an unsustainable illusion. After […]

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==> Tom Woods and Gary Chartier talk anarchy and the law. Just plug your ears when they say maybe I’m not right about this stuff. ==> This oddity in the Ferguson grand jury is definitely a point in favor of the camp that says the government didn’t want an indictment. Then here’s Scalia, though I […]

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==> Dan Sanchez weighs in on Bitcoin and the regression theorem. ==> CATO’s monetary conference. ==> Some Protestant pastors want to separate marriage and State. ==> I’m not going to bother writing it up, but you can see in the comments here how I try to resolve Scott Sumner’s running feud with Paul Krugman. I […]

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==> My wise-guy post over New York City’s goal to reduce CO2 emissions. ==> My post on conservatives and carbon taxes. (More academic.) ==> Greek philosophers playing Texas Hold ‘Em. Super geeky. ==> Elon Musk says we’re close to killer robots. ==> Richard Ebeling talks about the Berlin Wall. ==> Good news! New peer-reviewed paper […]