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It’s All About Me Potpourri

* I am on vacation and am not getting out my Rosetta Stone, but I frankly don’t know what Mish is even talking about in this response. It seems he is using a variation of the legal defense, “My client wasn’t at the murder scene, and if he were he doesn’t own a gun, and […]

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* While you were asleep, banks’ excess reserves smashed through $1 trillion. They’re around $1,100 billion at this point. * “Six Files the US Government Keeps On You, and How to Obtain a Copy.” (Here.) * I’m guessing Dick Clark’s law school prof doesn’t get too many papers like this. * Darren C. said this […]

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* I have been saying for years that pennies are stupid. I don’t pick up pennies (unless I dropped them and it would look like litter). If you disagree, what about a proposal to introduce a new coin that had the value of 1/1000th of a dollar bill? You can agree that would be dumb, […]

Climategate Potpourri

* Lew Rockwell on how the Left was diverted from its noble mission of opposing wars and protecting civil liberties. (Rockwell also passes on this story: US creationists defend the Climategate scientists!) * Clive Crook has a similar take to mine. * Because of Crook, Megan McArdle also starts to thinking that maybe there is […]

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* Bob Roddis takes us back to a more pleasant time, before Rothbard started dating Yoko Ono. * When Edward Gonzalez (occasional guest writer here at Free Advice) said that he didn’t consider himself an anarchist, he wasn’t kidding! * An intrepid critic tries to blow up my Climategate post with a medical analogy. Doesn’t […]

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* Gold broke $1,200. * Larry Kudlow’s open letter to Tiger Woods. (Yes, he goes there.) * Wesbury and Stein on anti-Obama-stimulus hypocrites. * A fantastic Richard Lindzen op ed. Sometimes I think the climate change skeptics I respect the most don’t make their strongest points in a pop forum. But this one is out […]

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* I deconstruct Brad DeLong’s stimulus accounting. * My former student Gennady Stolyarov II reviews my Depression book. I don’t think he is accusing me of confusion but I can’t be sure. * I don’t really see what the big deal is here. The White House has announced that it will formally pledge to commitments […]

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* Oops, that reported 3.5% real GDP growth in the 3q is more like 2.8%. (So they exaggerated it by 25%, big deal.) I liked this line: “That was a touch below market expectations for a growth pace of 2.9 percent.” Does that mean investors were forecasting that the government had exaggerating the initial reading […]