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==> Here’s the white paper on “Intercoin.” One of the people associated with the project explained to me that he is a fan of both the Austrian and MMT schools. I think the idea is to decentralize cryptocurrency transactions, so that all of the exchanges taking place within local communities can be confined to their […]

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==> An economist and the Pope walk into a finance class… ==> Wind and solar fans admit awkward fact about tax code. ==> My interview with David Gornoski concerned liberty and Christianity. It was not your typical discussion. ==> Richard Ebeling on neo-liberalism and then on communism. ==> Brad Birzer vs. the Senate.

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==> I asked Scott Horton for a summary of the situation in Yemen; here he is on the Jason Stapleton show. ==> I really don’t have any strong view on this situation right now; I have to think it through. Anyway, in case you hadn’t heard, apparently Project Veritas got caught trying to trick WaPo […]

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==> Just to give you a heads’ up, I have a post in the pipeline to come out at Mises.org, riffing off this Krugman blog about Martians trading with Earthlings. So if you want to read his post to get your imagination chugging, it might make my post (which will run next week, I presume) […]

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==> Even though the Fed has merely been rolling over its balance sheet since the fall of 2014, the ECB continues to buy bonds, recently announcing only that it is cutting the size of its monthly purchases (from the current 60 billion down to 30 billion euros) as of this coming January. ==> The provocative […]

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==> Episode 108 of Contra Krugman, where Krugman worries about replacing the whiz kids who’ve been running the Fed. ==> Alex Tabarrok talks about a vindication (?) of some of the points Phil Magness made in our critique of Piketty. (NOTE: I know Alex and he wasn’t insulting us.) I haven’t had time to read […]

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==> In the latest Contra Krugman, Tom and I bring Scott Horton on the show to talk about foreign policy post-9/11. ==> Scott Sumner shows how no matter what, everything is just what the Efficient Markets Hypothesis predicts. This time, it’s about Bitcoin. ==> Ryan Murphy pointed out to me that in the past he’s […]

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==> I was on Mark Edge’s show to talk about price gouging. ==> In the latest Lara-Murphy Show, we talk about tax implications from surrendering a policy with large outstanding policy loans. It’s inside baseball but make sure you listen, if you are interested in IBC. ==> I really loved this essay by Russ Roberts. […]