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Economics Principles Class Starts Next Week!

Hey kids, let’s get ready to leeeearn! There are now about 90 people signed up, and the enrollments are flying in fast and furious. If you are an adult and don’t want to feel like you’re sitting at the kiddie table at Thanksgiving, don’t worry: There are several dozen adults (including my mom) who are […]

Resistance Was Futile: I Joined Facebook

In high school I think I lasted until junior year before I started rolling up my pants like everyone else had been doing for years. I still maintain it was a dumb style, but everybody was doing it. (Incidentally, in high school the correct answer to, “If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?” is, […]

Get Your Red-Hot Original Zombie Scripts, Accept No Substitutes

OK in an effort to contain guffawing on the part of some readers, let me explain exactly how I got this idea: I was going to meet with a potential client and I wanted to take a notepad with me. But the first few pages had all kinds of weird stuff scribbled on it, so […]

Venus Needs Some Austrians

I explain at Mises.org. The “Venus Project” is a utopian (not using that term pejoratively) vision of a world free from scarcity. I agree that our world could be fantastically more productive than it current is, such that a casual observer might describe it as “post-scarcity.” Still, the people involved with this project blame everything […]

Krugman Beats Paulson, Loses to Murphy

Paul Krugman recently patted himself on the back for out-calling investor John Paulson. Krugman quoted from a Business Week article that said on July 1, 2010: Now [Krugman’s] warnings have taken on an even more dire tone. The threat is not merely the dreaded “double dip.” If the leaders of the developed world hold to […]

Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves: Murphy vs. Rosnick on Social Security

Another Public Square debate for you. (Here’s my lead-off essay, and then you can click through to the others from there.) If you ever wanted to read four essays on whether we should count the trust fund as legitimate–and still not have an answer at the end–then this debate is for you. My favorite exchange: […]

What Does “Debt-Based Money” Imply for Interest Payments?

Not as much as some think: In a previous article, I explained the sense in which our fractional-reserve, fiat financial system is built upon debt-based money. In this perverse arrangement, new dollars come into existence through the creation of government and private debt. Going the other way, if the private sector and the federal government […]

One Day Left Before the Class on Anarchy Private Law & Defense Begins!

Here’s the infomercial in case you missed it, or meant to come back to it and forgot. The first lecture is tomorrow night. We’ve got about 50 people signed up so far, and with Lew Rockwell’s mention, we expect a bunch of last-minute additions. There’s plenty of room for you. The price for the 4-week […]