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==> Once again, Bryan Caplan beats me to the punch. Barry Ritholz et al. have things exactly backwards when it comes to the “welfare queen” corporations relying on food stamps etc. to underpay their workforce. Other things equal, a stronger “social safety net” makes workers pickier when it comes to their jobs. Put it this […]

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==> Mario Rizzo on libertarianism vs. classical liberalism. ==> James Caton Jr. has some problems with the Hayekian triangle. ==> Tabarrok vs. Cowen on immigration. Winner: Tabarrok. ==> Pamela J. Stubbart explains the difference between living in suburbs and a big city. ==> A good interview with me on hard-core voluntary society stuff. I am […]

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==> The widely-read von Pepe sends this interesting David Glasner post about sticky wages. He includes a diagram that shows wages falling some 25% from 1929-1933, and roughly keeping pace with falling prices. My problem is that in my book on the Great Depression, I quote some economists and cite some stats arguing that wages […]

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==> Josiah Neeley thinks today’s blogging Keynesians are too eager to raise taxes, even though that’s not what their theory calls for. ==> Peter Schiff talks about his Daily Show interview. ==> Doug French steals some Jim Croce lyrics (but he doesn’t believe in IP) and says, “Don’t fight the Fed.” ==> OK so a […]

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==> Joe Salerno offers a rebuttal to Paul Krugman’s high-five of “Lord Keynes” post about Mises on the Great Depression. ==> Two really interesting interviews from Tom Woods: Peter Schiff (where he talks about his dad, something I haven’t heard him discuss before) and Walter Williams (who near the end explains the connection between white […]

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Yikes I’ve been traveling lately and am way behind with some of these… ==> Niels van der Linden replies to my comment on his critique of Rothbard. ==> Richard Ebeling (my teacher in undergrad) reflects on the Great Society. ==> Megan McArdle on health insurance bailout. Joe Salerno provides more details on this interesting story […]

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==> Reisenwitz vs. Borowski, settling things the way libertarians always do: through voting. ==> Why your iPhone footage from Europe has a weird strobe light effect. ==> John Carney looks at a Fed paper that (implicitly) challenges Austrian business cycle theory. ==> NYT on Edward Snowden (from a couple of weeks ago, I just haven’t […]

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==> At Mises Canada I publicize the fact that Alan Greenspan’s PhD dissertation apparently discussed a housing bubble. (Was this common knowledge? Thanks to Frank C. for tipping me off.) ==> Speaking of Mises Canada, its president–Redmond Weissenberger–is hosting a show called “Better Red Than Dead.” He’s had me on, as well as Doug French, […]