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Trump Gives the World Financial Information; Free-Market Economists Outraged

Folks, this post is about 65% tongue-in-cheek. Anyway, Scott Sumner called it literally an “outrage” that Trump tweeted that he was looking forward to the jobs report at 7:21am, when the numbers weren’t officially released until 8:30am. When arguing with someone in the comments (who had claimed this actually helps the average Joe, because it […]

CNN’s Reporting Not Holding Up Too Well

This article from March 2017 refers to Trump’s “baseless wiretap claim,” though the denials quoted in the article now read–with the benefit of hindsight–as non-denial denials. (E.g. they are carefully worded to say that President Obama would not have ordered FBI surveillance on Trump.) This article from October 2017–just four months ago–did not age well. […]

ICE Removals Under Trump vs. Obama

[UPDATED with more info about interior removals under Obama.] I kept hearing conflicting statistics, but thanks to a commenter at Scott Sumner’s blog, I found the relevant reports to sort it all out. So if you want to make it seem like Trump is deporting way more people than Obama–and both Trump’s fans and critics […]

Dave Smith Interviews Bob

I was just on Dave Smith’s podcast “Part of the Problem.” We talked econ and politics, and had some laughs. Plus near the beginning, I did my dial-up modem sound effect. Note, I think Dave only has episodes available for free for a short window, so if you want to listen to this, grab it […]

David R. Henderson on Trump’s First Year

I liked this piece by David, especially since I used the following two passages in the latest Contra Krugman (which hasn’t dropped yet): [A]lthough many Washington wags are shocked that Vladimir Putin may have cared enough about the U.S. election outcome to spend one hundred thousand dollars on Facebook ads, between 1946 and 2000, the U.S. […]

Choosing the Ceteris Depending on the Desired Paribus

Let me repeat for newcomers: I am friends with Don Boudreaux and have made sure (over email) that he knows my intentions are pure when I do posts like this. I’m not “blowing him up,” it’s just that I only read a few blogs and so if I talk about something here, it will often […]

Potpourri

==> I push back against Ed Dolan’s claim that Hayek would probably have supported a carbon tax. ==> I had seen some people linking to this CNN story about the “Trump leaked sensitive information to the Russians” stuff. It is really unusual. I encourage you to click the link and read the story. It sounds […]

“So There I Was, Helping to Spread Fake News…”

Now to be clear, I’m not saying every single moment of footage on cable TV at this point is dictated by 4 bankers in a dark room smoking cigars. I’m just pointing out that what “everybody knows” about Trump/Russia/obstruction etc. rests on a weaker foundation than what everybody knows. For example, check out Brian Williams […]