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* You know how it wasn’t the Fed that caused the housing bubble, but those Chinese savers? Well Paul Krugman tells us it’s the same story with rising food prices–not the Fed’s fault, but those Chinese eaters. * Lew Rockwell has a really nice historical and psychological analysis of right-wing warhawks. (I.e. he offers plausible […]

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* Lew Rockwell’s podcast with Naomi Wolf. It’s almost cute how she has finally admitted to herself that Obama is going along with all this stuff, but her explanation is that he has no power to stop it. I suppose this is analogous to my feelings for Ronald Reagan. I loved his speeches so much, […]

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* Citigroup comes up with a new catchphrase to justify its continuing reliance on bailouts. * Gerald O’Driscoll gets pretty feisty, for the Wall Street Journal. (HT2 the photosynthetic von Pepe.) * Check out Andrew Jackson’s explanation for why he killed the 2nd Bank of the United States. BTW mark your calendars, the Night of […]

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Once again the browser becomes turgid with tabs: * Jim Manzi has been having a good discussion/argument with Karl Smith, on the confidence economists should have in their models. If you go to this post, you can get up to speed. It’s an interesting discussion because if you read either of them, you totally “get” […]

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My Firefox browser is littered with tabs, so it’s time to clean house… * For those in the area, note that I will be back in Oregon later this week, in a multi-pronged educational effort with Richard Ebeling. Details here. * In preparation for my debate with Krugman, I have been accumulating mainstream critiques of […]

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* Some of my thoughts on the recent gold news. * A student in my private law / private defense class wrote up a post on some new technologies/strategies. * Pete Boettke links to an exchange between Paul Krugman and Raghuram Rajan. RR destroys Krugman. It’s actually embarrassing. * Gonzalo Lira made me once again […]

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* A great WSJ piece by Jerry O’Driscoll from mid-August, “The Fed Can’t Solve Our Economic Woes.” (I believe the effusive von Pepe sent it.) * OK either Mario Rizzo and Jerry O’Driscoll are wrong, or I am. But in the comments here we can’t agree on supply curves and price movements. BTW, I am […]

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In the next few weeks, I am going to be posting very sparsely because of the online class on private law & defense. (I owe my online arguing time to paying customers, not to you freeloaders.) So only two quick links for ya: * Steve Horwitz aptly evaluates Paul Krugman’s approach to macro: “It’s a […]