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Government Plea Bargains Are a Horrible Practice

I think you will like this one; it has a plot twist near the end. The opening: Because it is so commonplace, most people accept the practice of State prosecutors offering a “plea bargain” without much thought. After all, it seems like a win-win situation: the State saves on court costs and other resources, while […]

More EMH Silliness

I love this stuff. Scott Sumner scoffs at those thinking Robert Shiller contributed anything useful by warning of a stock bubble in 1996 or a real estate bubble in 2003. He quotes from Fama, who at first seems to blow Shiller up with some numbers. But I’m pretty sure I show that Fama’s arguments make […]

When the State Fixes Your Mind

Just some history tidbits on the government helping people get better, that’s all. Sure mistakes were made, but they mean well. Gooo ObamaCare! (Seriously, when you have 15 minutes you need to read about this stuff if you’ve never done so. We get into ice-pick lobotomies and MK-Ultra. Something for everyone. Nudie shots too.)

Scott Sumner Warns Against Heterodox Views, Except His

This post at Mises CA actually turned out better than I had first anticipated. As I thought of more pieces of evidence, the case against Sumner became quite powerful–using the very framework he recommended to his readers. (Incidentally, that’s my point here; I’m not attacking heterodoxy. I recognize that Austrian anarcho-capitalist evengelical Christians are not […]

Potpourri

==> My latest Mises CA post uses Jared Bernstein to confirm that Austrians haven’t been paranoid about the USD losing its reserve currency status. ==> The farewell conference for FEE at its Irvington mansion. ==> Jeremy Mack is a libertarian and evangelical pastor who came to the Night of Clarity. He has a blog that […]

A Free Society Must Give Up Empire

I want to go out of my way to say this isn’t an “attack” on Dan McCarthy. (It would be ironic to launch an airstrike from an antiwar website.) I respect Dan’s views greatly, and frankly was somewhat shocked when I read his article making a qualified case for U.S. empire. In any event, here’s […]

Responding to Bryan Caplan on Why Government Enterprises Are So Good

My newest LibertyChat article takes on Bryan Caplan’s surprising argument that Rothbardians can’t explain why government enterprises work so well. Here’s my conclusion, so you can see where I took the argument, but you should read the whole thing; I even talk about ice-pick lobotomies. (Yes, I went there.) We see that the spirit of […]

The GAO’s Whitewash on “Social Cost of Carbon”

I know some of you may be vaguely interested in the climate change policy debate, but you realize there’s a lot of reading to get up to speed you would have to decide which person is fudging the facts etc. If that’s you, I’ve got just the blog post you’ve been waiting for. In this […]