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==> My interview with Warren Mosler (Bob Murphy Show ep. 18) is up. ==> My critique of MMT is also up. ==> In the movie Dr. Strangelove, the president says it is the avowed position of the US government never to be the first to use nuclear weapons. Not so fast, says Tyler Cowen.
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==> On episode 8 of the Bob Murphy Show I interview David R. Henderson. Among other topics, we discuss his time on the Council of Economic Advisors where he rubbed shoulders with Krugman. ==> On episode 167 of Contra Krugman we call an audible and cover “hard topics” in libertarianism, such as terrorism and medical […]
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(Get it, like “more Potpourri”?) In my previous post I forgot to mention these items: ==> I had a blog post at Independent remarking on the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper. ==> This fictional piece from Scott Alexander is excellent.
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Sorry for the radio silence. We had the 3rd annual Contra Cruise, and I also had a bunch of “day job” projects. Things should be getting back to normal around here… ==> Speaking of the cruise, this is the episode Tom and I recorded in front of the live audience. Good stuff–and don’t miss the […]
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==> After a long hiatus, I’ve resumed blogging at Lara-Murphy.com. ==> JP Koning joins the ranks of the nutjobs (including me) who think 100% reserve banking is a perfectly defensible thing. An excerpt: “But times have changed. Zero-maturity reserves, which originally comprised precious-metal coins, evolved to a far-less-cumbersome medium: paper. And now they are digitized, […]
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==> Can’t remember if I already blogged this: The latest Contra Krugman picks apart Krugman’s mocking of Cato’s ranking of the states by “freedom.” ==> In the latest Lara-Murphy Show, we answer a Twitter question: Why is IBC better than just “paying cash” for big ticket items? ==> Rob Bradley has a new book on […]
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===> I push back against Paul Krugman’s ridicule of a Cato freedom ranking of the US states. ==> An interesting contrast between Austrian and (mainstream) macroeconomics, from Huerto de Soto. ==> I can’t remember if I mentioned this when it first came out, but FYI I helped write this pretty good–if I do say so–primer […]
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