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Acton and Market Monetarism

==> For those in the Grand Rapids area, on November 4 I’ll be speaking at the Acton Institute on the importance of sound money. ==> Speaking of which, how about those Market Monetarists? In this Mises CA post I pit Nick Rowe against Scott Sumner.

Would Milton Friedman Have Supported a Carbon Tax?

My sources say no. And one of them is Milton Friedman from 1999. (Thanks to Keshav–I think?–for digging that one up.)

Potpourri

==> My column at FEE talking about outsourcing in the context of the “Million Jobs Project.” ==> No joke, I submitted this to the blog of unnecessary quotation marks. ==> Glenn Greenwald explains why endless war is now literally US doctrine. ==> A Kontradiction or a contradiction? Krugman vs. Krugman on carbon taxes. ==> Don […]

Taxes Are Theft?

…he asked innocently. I am guessing I will have more to say on this topic, but here’s the first swing. Notice this part where I point out something ironic in Sumner’s discussion of Hiroshima: It’s also interesting that we can use Sumner’s rhetorical device against him. Notice in the beginning of his passage, he says […]

Theory and Evidence That QE Pushes Down Long-Term Interest Rates

Thanks to Keshav for the Krugman link I used in the first half of this Mises CA post… Incidentally, if you thought, “Well duh, of course interest rates stayed low, because the Fed did Operation Twist and then QE3!” then you should really read this one. It’s not as open and shut as you’d like […]

Are the Republicans Good on the Free Market?

We already know the Democrats aren’t really the party of peace…turns out the Republicans aren’t laissez-faire champions either. I feel so disillusioned. The intro: In my last post, I challenged the conventional view that the Democratic Party was the dovish one, in contrast to those hawkish Nixon Wage PriceRepublicans. I pointed out that Democrats had […]

Can the Central Bank Control Interest Rates?

I argue yes, within limits. The weird thing is that I think everybody in this dispute agrees on the caveats, we just summarize the reality in totally opposite ways (i.e. “yes” vs. “no”).

Krugman’s Gross Mistake

The title is the best part of my latest Mises CA, but I think I raise a decent issue in the text too. The conclusion (but I really do handle some of the nuances in the post, so critics please read the whole thing first): Bill Gross made a very public prediction that Treasury rates […]