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Two Posts on Energy Issues

A little awkward talking about the UN Climate Change meetings in Paris in light of today’s tragic events, but anyway here are my two latest Institute for Energy Research posts: ==> This one shows that oil prices (adjusted with CPI) are higher now than the 1950-2015 average. ==> Check out the frankness of the UN’s […]

Star Trek and Economics

My latest at FEE. C’mon click it, they put up a cool photo of Kirk & Co.

I Was Writing About the Natural Rate of Interest Before It Was Cool

As Free Advice readers know, I have had my differences with Scott Sumner. But in a recent exchange he told me: “I’d encourage you to brush up on the Wicksellian theory of interest rates, it might help you to better understand my argument.” More generally, it seems that all the cool bloggers are talking about […]

Combining the Wisdom of Mises and Yogi Berra

In my latest FEE article on profit. The money excerpt: Now here’s the important element: notice that although the high market price of gold keeps it from being wasted in over-the-top apartment decoration, there are lines of production that can profitably use gold. For example, jewelers who sell necklaces can do a similar calculation and […]

The Primal Prescription

I have to run to a seminar right now–I have a job, folks–but here is Tom gushing about my new book, co-authored with ER doctor Doug McGuff. If you want the book, go ahead and click the Amazon link from Tom’s page for now. Later I’ll do a better post here.

More on the Crude Oil Export Ban

I’ve written on this topic before, but at FEE today I made a new observation: There’s another way of seeing the foolishness of the hostility to [U.S.] oil exports. Normally, when it comes to international trade, the layperson is wary of “cheap imports.” Those wily foreigners are always scheming to send us their products to […]

More Murphy Meandering (through) Minimum Wage Literature

At EconLib. Here’s something that might surprise you, but you need the background info that when Krugman told the NYT readers that there is “just no evidence” that minimum wage hikes reduce employment, he linked to a 2010 paper by Dube et al. So with that: If we are discussing proposals to increase the minimum […]