Shameless Self-Promotion

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Announcing the IBC Workshop

The footage of us lecturing comes from a February 2015 workshop we put on in Birmingham. I realized that you guys don’t understand the quite specific presentations my co-author, Carlos Lara, and I have been giving to audiences during the summer. No, I wasn’t telling them, “I expect a spike in the VVIX on Monday, […]

Go Forth and Multiply

My latest at FEE. An excerpt: To illustrate the shortcoming of a naïve natural scientific perspective on these issues, consider an anecdote from my high school years. I remember that my biology textbook asked us to consider a petri dish with a population of bacteria that would double every day. By stipulation, the bacteria would […]

Mises and the Market

My article at The Daily Caller explains how the Austrian perspective prepared many analysts for the recent market volatility.

Potpourri

==> Rand Paul and Mark Spitznagel vs. the Fed. ==> This Telegraph piece makes a compelling case for building your bunker. (HT2 Zero Hedge, I think) ==> Did I already link to this? I think Scott Alexander here is getting things backwards. Is this worth me pursuing? ==> Nick Rowe again showing that he eats […]

Murphy Twin Spin

==> I debate Walter Block on the Tom Woods show. ==> I talk socialist problems at the Freeman.

Potpourri

==> Mark Spitznagel touts Rand Paul’s “Economic Freedom Zones.” ==> A great Tom Woods interview with FEE President Larry Reed on Upton Sinclair and other topics. ==> Another good Tom Woods episode featuring his response to those claiming Ron Paul was a leftist because he opposed aggressive U.S. foreign policy. ==> David Beckworth Strikes Back.

Beckworth + Murphy = Total Consciousness

David Beckworth wrote a response to me (and David R. Henderson) on the Canadian budget turnaround in the 1990s. In this Mises CA post I summarize the debate and then reconcile Beckworth’s position and mine. The apparent contradiction was that (a) I had shown stagnant growth in the Bank of Canada’s assets in the period […]