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==> Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Seeing how much it has bolstered my career, Greg Mankiw and Gene Callahan both try to catch Keynesian bloggers in self-righteous contradictions. I actually don’t think Mankiw’s point works very well, since Krugman clearly refers to “recovery” in his recent post whereas in 2003 the US wasn’t […]

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==> After reading my scathing critique, David Frum will wish he had added another axis of evil. ==> My interview on MMT matters. I am tough, but I am fair. (?) ==> Jerry O’Driscoll catches something that I noticed too: The Fed’s announcement seems to turn a ceiling into a floor. (HT2 the eagle-eyed von […]

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==> Tyler Cowen jumps in on the side (?) of Sumner and Rowe (HT2 Max R.), regarding Cantillon effects. (Here Sumner is much clearer–to Austrian readers–about what his position has been all along.) Gene Callahan makes what seems to be a modest point, but it actually is the equivalent of Luke Skywalker’s shot into the […]

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==> Saw this floating around on Facebook. There was a similar horror story here in Nashville about a family with a special needs child who really hated going to this particular new school, and eventually an employee broke down and told the family that their kid was being isolated for hours at a time, because […]

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==> Nick Rowe agrees with me that Steve Landsburg’s analysis of paying down government debt is only true if we assume perfect certainty. (Steve I think would totally agree, and that’s why I said in my original post that this was an argument over specifying assumptions for the reader, not about the implications of those […]

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==> Over at Laissez-Faire I explain my Chevy Chase moment. ==> On carbon taxes, I report you decide. ==> My podcast with “Gadsen Rising.” ==> My podcast on “Patriot’s Lament.” ==> Markets in Everything: An insurance policy for libertarian activists.

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==> Silas Barta wants to keep Steve Landsburg honest on disaster economics. (Incidentally Bryan Caplan recently asked his readers to see if they ever find themselves objecting to unfair arguments used against “the other side,” and say what you will about Silas and me, but we often do just that. However, in both cases that […]

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==> Redmond and I talk about all kinds of stuff for a good hour. This is actually “new” stuff if you are bored out of your mind at work and want to have this going in the background… ==> The Center for American Progress recycles my backside. ==> My brother sends this compilation of impressions. […]