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==> An excerpt from Guido Hulsmann’s introduction to (what we know as) The Theory of Money & Credit. Incidentally, I wrote a Study Guide for this book, and believe me, it’s not as intimidating as it first appears. If you have always wanted to be the type of person to read it, but thought you […]

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I’m going on a long trip so not sure what blogging will be like for a few days… In the meantime: ==> David Glasner has a nice Alchian post. Man, there were some heavy hitters at UCLA back in the day. I used Jack Hirshleifer’s textbook when I taught intermediate micro. It had the cool […]

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==> I make a modest point about fracking and federalism. ==> Simon Lester thinks Krugman is up to no good on his post about protectionism, but I don’t really have a dog in that fight. BTW, my Krugman takedowns are still coming, I’m just digging myself out of a pile of stuff. ==> Consumers are […]

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==> Murray Sabrin has been our man in Cuba. Here’s an article in a series of posts on his visit. ==> Jerry O’Driscoll doesn’t heart Bernanke. ==> John Papola also caught something that I noticed about the Stiglitz/Krugman exchange (on inequality): Stiglitz quite explicitly said that low consumption spending was the reason for our recession, […]

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==> An interesting inventory at IER of “federal assets above and below ground.” I didn’t do this particular blog post, but I think it draws on some numbers I compiled in the past. This notion that if the feds don’t get to raise the debt ceiling, they have no choice but to cut PBS and […]

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==> John Goodman (the economist, not the actor) cites two Murphys at Forbes. ==> Apparently Nate Silver could’ve saved me $500. ==> Speaking of the Henderson/DeLong/Krugman fiasco, here was Jeff Tucker’s reaction. ==> David Beckworth (and Ramesh Ponnuru) are half right: The government should cut spending. I get really worried when people say “Bernanke Controls […]

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==> Jeffrey Karl made up this cartoon based on the numbers I calculated for the so-called fiscal cliff. ==> You can’t imagine how many people sent me this link about Krugman for Treasury Secretary. ==> Steve Landsburg disagrees with David R. Henderson’s (limited) defense of the recent budget deal.

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==> I want to call your attention to a major UPDATE I made to my response to DeLong/Krugman, inspired by Nick Rowe’s thoughts on macroeconomic disputes. ==> Justin Merrill makes some good points about Cantillon Effects. One thing I had meant to mention myself: The people objecting to the “simplistic” Austrian critiques love to say, […]