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* Goodness gracious, great balls of fire in the geeconosphere. Sis, boom, bah. * This slipped through the cracks: A podcast with Patrick Donohoe, who is big into the whole life movement. (Doesn’t it sound like a New Agey thing?) * I warned Bryan that if he didn’t retract his statement that the “first-best” policy […]

Yet Another Murphy Twin Spin

I wrote this op ed commenting on the Fed’s turnabout in late August, but it just ran today on MarketWatch. It’s funny, I can really tell the difference between a regular newspaper versus this website; the edits that the WSJ people make are a lot more financially-savvy than those that “regular journalists” make. (BTW check […]

Murphy Twin Spin

(We also would have accepted, “Murphy Double Play.”) Sometimes life can get you down. Your kids are misbehaving, your car breaks down, you throw your back out, you root for the Buffalo Bills…. But then, every once in a while, a Monday rolls along featuring new Murphy articles in two different venues. And somehow, you […]

Ahnold Decriminalizes Marijuana

You know, sometimes I freak myself out with my spot-on predictions. Brownie points for anyone who links to the earliest post in which I said that we would move toward drug legalization (which allows the government to tax it) as this depression lingers: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Friday morning that decriminalizes possession […]

Reuters Readers Ruv Me

At least according to the first two commenters. Here’s an excerpt of my op ed on fiscal austerity–and I had to rely on your guys’ help with digging up the European statistics: The ECB documented several episodes when a government implemented aggressive policies to reduce its budget deficit, and the result was a stronger economy. […]

Groupon: Another Market Success

Details here. Incidentally, the most important part of this article–the news you can use–isn’t about Groupon, but about its parent site: As I was investigating the website for Groupon, I discovered that it was a specific application of the more general website, The Point. As the short video at the link explains, The Point exists […]

Hooray, the Recession Is Over!

I’m not the first to poke fun at the NBER for saying the recession ended (15 months ago), but I haven’t seen anyone stress this point: …I just want to point out that the NBER’s techniques implicitly justify big government. For example, suppose the Austrians are right, and that the Fed’s massive interventions — coupled […]

Krugman Moves Me to Comment

I very rarely post comments on Krugman’s blog, but in response to this: A great piece about Wall Street rage by Max Abelson. Basically, they feel underappreciated. How dare Obama talk about fat cats, or suggest that runaway finance had something to do with the mess we’re in? … Did our nation’s elite always consist […]