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Immediate Reaction to the Latest IPCC Report

I will be writing tons on this topic in the coming weeks, but my immediate reaction to the IPCC AR5 Working Group II report that came out Monday is now up at IER. An excerpt: Now the reader should understand the hole into which the climate alarmists have dug themselves. They can’t have the IPCC […]

Privatize Outer Space!

Such is my rallying cry at Mises Canada. An excerpt: Notice too that the tradeoff doesn’t have to be between something cool and exotic on the one hand (like exploring Europa), versus something lame and boring on the other hand (like giving everybody an extra pair of dress socks). The oceans on Earth are hardly […]

Potpourri

==> Gene Callahan tells me that this post from years ago is consistently the most heavily trafficked of his blog. I guess you know who was Daryl Hall and who was John Oates in this particular breakup. ==> My first college roommate and I built a “cardboard cathedral” (actual term we used) on the floor […]

How Government Wrecks the Economy

My next class at Mises Academy. Full infomercial here. An excerpt: The fall of the Soviet Union should have spelled the demise of central planning, yet the socialist mentality thrives — albeit in a diluted form — in all governments in the so-called “free world.” No one explained the failures of pure socialism and of […]

The LEGO Movie Is AWESOME

From my gushing review at Mises Canada: Let me tackle the other stumbling block for free-market libertarians: The name of the villain is “President Business.” Thus, some viewers complained to me that the movie had an anti-market message. … Remember, the underlying theme of the LEGO movie is that America is turning fascist. Now what […]

Potpourri

==> The Economist magazine gets on the Bitcoin bandwagon. (HT2 Tyler Cowen) ==> The haughty von Pepe sends this Cochrane post in which he (Cochrane) points out that Yellen has thrown policy rules completely out the window. ==> David R. Henderson describes his flawless victory on ObamaCare. ==> Is China going to back its currency […]

The Continuing Importance of Capital Theory

My new post at Mises Canada, which on Facebook I summarize as “Friedrich Hayek >> Scott Sumner.” An excerpt: Now if Sumner’s explanation were the main thing going on, there would be two immediate implications: (1) Booms are good things. And (2) Booms should naturally slide back into normal growth as wages and prices adjust; there is no […]