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Sumner Courageously Admits He Can’t Explain Housing Bubble

I know a lot of you wonder why I am always so quick to volunteer the fact that I made erroneous warnings about official price measures thus far, but the reason is that I can’t stand analysts who make all kinds of predictions, and then only pat themselves on the back for the ones they […]

Sumner on Predicting the Great Recession

Today Scott Sumner writes: There’s a reason most economic forecasters were not predicting a recession as of June 2008; net worth models are useless. The huge decline in house prices between 2006 would not be expected to cause a major recession, and indeed would not have caused one had NGDP not declined. OK so there […]

Carbon Tax Swaps and the “Tax Interaction Effect”

I have the EconLib article this month, on the above. Here’s the introduction: For years, many economists have advocated a tax on the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as a way to correct the negative externality of manmade climate change. More recently, even a growing number of conservative economists have embraced a […]

Gary North, King of the Internet

Gary North has written two great articles, one that I like because it’s about the Krugman debate, and the other that I like because it’s objectively great. Here’s North telling Krugman that he (Krugman) shouldn’t debate me: I strongly recommend that Krugman not accept the challenge. I think he is a rational man, so I […]

Amanda BillyRock Goes to University…Mises University

I’m still trying to get my right audio channel to work, and she apparently has the ability to speed up time itself in her videos:

Potpourri

I’m almost giddy for tonight’s Potpourri. I don’t know if I’m in a good mood and see the creativity and courage out there in the blogosphere, or if my blogging peers are all having a good week. In any event, here goes: ==> Paul Krugman recently wrote that the US was doing pretty good during […]

Old News: Murphy vs. Karl Smith

I just sent this to someone over email, to make sure he realized that I’m not a complete nutjob. If I ever debate Krugman, I will probably not make it shirts and skins. Anyway, this was the online debate the Mises Academy hosted between Karl Smith (of Modeled Behavior) and me.