Potpourri

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Potpourri

* Mario Rizzo on the issue of whether economists should have predicted (forecast) the financial collapse. * The Economist on the experience of John Law and fiat money. (HT2TAE) * Paul Green offers practical tips for Internet privacy. I have been urging techie/security guys I know, to write up such an article. What do people […]

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* Another favorable review (of my first Politically Incorrect Guide) at FrontPageMag. * My radio interview with Michael McKay, from the Mises Institute. * Betsy Hansen was a summer fellow at the Mises Institute this year. Last week (during the conference) we started talking about mark-to-market and it soon became apparent that she had done […]

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* I take on my buddy Brad DeLong at Mises.org. DeLong had tried to use Wicksell to defend Greenspan, and I cracked that Knut. (OK that was awful, sorry.) * Jeffrey Rogers Hummel says that the U.S. government will default on its debt. * David Friedman has a very interesting post on responding to climate […]

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* Jason Clemens and I have a piece in Human Events on California’s predicament. (The comments are more entertaining than our dry analysis.) * Marlo Lewis challenges the claim that the “science is settled” regarding global warming. Does anyone know if RealClimate has addressed Watts’ claims about thermometers being put next to exhaust fans, etc.? […]

Potpourri Por Favor

* A bunch of Ron Paul fans have been griping about this WSJ article on the Fed, and I assumed they were just being touchy. But seriously just read the first three paragraphs. That might as well have titled it, “Give me a B! Give me an E! Give me an N!…” In case you […]

Mo’ Potpourri

* Hayek [sorry!!] Henry Hazlitt reviews Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State. * Ben Bernanke’s ghost writer(s) have an op ed in the Wall Street Journal today. (HT2EPJ) Pinky, are you thinking what I’m thinking? * Bob Roddis has a Rothbard speech (in three parts) at his blog. * We are now officially in Bizarro World. […]

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* Mario Rizzo laments the failure of macroeconomics. An interesting excerpt: As a member of NYU’s Ph.D. admissions committee for the past fifteen years, I have even seen applicants who apologize for taking “too many” philosophy courses in college. I have seen others remind us that although they have been interested in history and literature, […]

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* This guy emailed me to say that my Mish article went awry at the crucial point: When the creditor lends out money so that borrowers can spend more, the creditor is content to carry lower cash balances, because he’s now holding a claim on future income. I had considered this at the time I […]