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==> I wish Mises happy birthday. ==> In this post (and comments) David R. Henderson seems to agree with Jeffrey Rogers Hummel that the Fed’s ability to control interest rates is very exaggerated. Then you’ve got Larry Summers criticizing the Treasury for offsetting the Fed’s moves to cut long-term interest rates. Are David and Jeffrey […]

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==> My colleague Dan Simmons (at IER) on the BBC. I told him he should’ve adopted a Paul McCartney accent. ==> This is an interesting graphic contrasting Keynesian with Austrian economics. (HT2 Tom Woods) I could quibble with a few little points but that would be like objecting to the Hayek/Keynes rap video for not […]

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==> David R. Henderson gives a comprehensive response (with the help of Scott Horton) to Richard Epstein’s case for a libertarian intervention against ISIS. ==> Speaking of Syria, check out my old post on “More Middle East Map Fun!” ==> Robin Hanson has an interesting post that suggests economists don’t actually care about changing the […]

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==> Tyler Cowen elicits outrage from his readers (in the comments) when he writes, “[T]his story will not end with a “no” vote from Scotland, unless it is strongly decisive. Regardless of the result, allowing this referendum to go forward likely will go down as one of the greatest unforced errors in recent times.” ==> […]

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==> I point out Krugman’s extremely misleading commentary on the fast food strike. ==> You guys all forgot about Human Action’s 65th birthday, didn’t you? ==> This is a neat puzzle about the implications of common knowledge etc. ==> I’m not going to write on it anymore, but a comparable perspective on plea bargains that […]

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==> In the last third of this Tom Woods podcast on book publishing, he goes off on his critics who accuse Tom of “just writing books to get money from the liberty movement.” (Just think about what kind of a person would make such a comment.) I love it when Tom goes off on Internet […]

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==> Fermilab is going to find out if we’re living in a giant hologram. I suspect we are, and that the discussions in the comments of the posts here are some alien’s idea of a sick joke. ==> If you don’t like the USA, then you can just lea–oh. ==> I didn’t even bother reading […]

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==> My latest Mises CA post uses Jared Bernstein to confirm that Austrians haven’t been paranoid about the USD losing its reserve currency status. ==> The farewell conference for FEE at its Irvington mansion. ==> Jeremy Mack is a libertarian and evangelical pastor who came to the Night of Clarity. He has a blog that […]