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Steve Landsburg Reminds Us How Little Math We Know

This is a really neat post, if you want to see Steve explain the accomplishments of the recently deceased mathematician Alexander Grothendieck. It would be pointless for me to try to convey the substance of the post; you should just read it if you are interested. However, let me once again observe that Steve is […]

A Rising Tide Lifts All Interventionists

I agree with the substance of his post, but only Steve Landsburg could start a piece like this: “So the Obama administration has released a climate forecast, according to which Miami could be under water by the end of the century. Apparently we’re supposed to be very concerned about that.” (Here are my thoughts on […]

Challenging Landsburg on HFT

You guys thought I was nuts reading my analysis of the Bundy standoff? Well now I’m publicly accusing Steve Landsburg of a basic math mistake. But I have a lot of life insurance, remember. An excerpt of the part where we’re still chums: Reading guys like Paul Krugman rail against the socially useless financial sector, […]

Thoughts on GM and Michael Moore

At Mises Canada. An excerpt: Suppose years ago when they discovered the problem, GM had contacted all of the 2.6 million customers driving the vehicles with a faulty switch and told them, “We think 13 of you will end up dying because of the faulty switch. The problem is, we don’t know which 13–if we […]

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==> I had briefly toyed with the idea of ignoring Krugman in 2014, but then I realized: You guys want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. For now: A while ago someone exclaimed with horror in the comments here that Krugman was referring to his opponents as cockroaches, and that this […]

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==> Mario Rizzo stands up for economic freedom and tolerance. ==> A few people have told me to highlight this apparent Krugman Kontradiction on unemployment benefits and job search (scroll down a bit). I actually highlighted this when it initially occurred (perhaps because somebody brought it to my attention, I can’t remember). However, Krugman on […]

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==> The erudite von Pepe notified me that John Taylor has been blogging about Summers/Krugman as well; here’s a good example. ==> Here’s me with Tom Woods talking on this topic. ==> Speaking of Summers/Krugman, apparently the Onion anticipated their stance. ==> Mark Spitznagel is not on the Bitcoin bandwagon. ==> Danny Sanchez has a […]

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==> I think President Obama should read from this website in celebration of Columbus Day, in order to win over Sean Hannity. ==> My favoriet go-to guy for climate science is Chip Knappenberger. Here’s his archive at Cato. In particular, y’all should be aware of the skullduggery in the latest IPCC report (AR5), in which […]