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==> The latest Lara-Murphy Show is on stumbling blocks Carlos and I encountered when learning IBC. ==> Tom and I debate Bitcoin (is it fiat?) at the end of this episode. ==> Glenn Greenwald documents how MSNBC is an arm of the Democratic establishment. ==> I haven’t had a chance to read, but David Andolfatto […]

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==> Lots of people are talking about this Mexican town that overthrew its government. Seemed like the moral was: Once they secured their border, everything got better. (Oh I kid folks I kid.) ==> On that Scott Alexander post on Piketty, I was glad to see David Friedman has material posted about the History of […]

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==> At IER, I discuss Doug Ford’s election (in Ontario). He ran on a platform promising to roll back cap-and-trade. ==> Sorry if I already pushed this: In the latest Contra Krugman I go solo and talk about the economics of climate change policy. ==> FEE’s Blinking Lights award, given this year to Nelson Nash. […]

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==> In the latest Contra Krugman, we use a suggestion from one of our Contra Cruise bonus winners, and explain what Krugman won the Nobel Prize for. (Obviously if any technical wizards are listening and think I got something fuzzy, let me know.) ==> He interviewed me over the phone so some of my position […]

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==> I’m somewhat embarrassed to say that I don’t think I was very familiar with the apparently famous “Stanford prison experiment,” but my ignorance has been validated because the whole thing was a fraud. (In contrast, I always filed away Milgram’s obedience experiment as my go-to scientific confirmation of whatever political science point I wanted […]

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==> Medicare apparently is in some sort of financial trouble. (And remember when I did my impression of Paul Ryan and offered a proposal to let people opt out of Social Security that wouldn’t cost the government any money.) ==> I liked this Justin Raimondo take on the pundits falling onto their swooning couches over […]

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==> CONTEST! Get your video posted for free admission to the Contra Cruise. Details in the middle of this episode (which is also quite good). ==> I differ with the Pope on transubstantiation *and* climate economics. ==> This is a great Tom Woods interview of Saifedean Ammous. He is an economist with a very particular […]

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==> The latest Contra Krugmans: Episode 140 on fascism in Europe, and Episode 141 on the Swiss “sovereign money” referendum (i.e. 100% reserve banking). ==> OK in this David Roberts column for Vox, he is reviewing Infinity War. (Caution: Major spoilers in the review.) I can’t quote him here since I don’t want to spoil […]