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So Which Are the Predictions That Matter Again…?
Long-time readers know that my day of infamy occurred when I bet David R. Henderson $500 that year/year CPI inflation would break double-digits. (I actually bet Bryan Caplan first, but David’s bet was for a shorter time horizon, so that’s why my bet with David got more attention. I summarize everything here.) When that bet […]
Read moreMore on the Tax on “Cadillac” Health Insurance Plans
In response to my earlier post on Scott Sumner and Steve Landsburg, David R. Henderson sent me two of his own posts (I and II) on the 40% surtax on so-called Cadillac employer-provided health plans. I think I’m generally in agreement with everything David wrote, but I suspect he is still more favorable to the […]
Read moreI Stand Athwart the Blogosphere, Yelling Stop
I waited several days to write about this, because it may sound like I’m calling for someone to be fired when that’s not my intention. All I want to do is point out that it’s weird that on one of the leading classical liberal / free-market economics blogs, the resident monetary excerpt applauds the Russian central […]
Read morePotpourri
==> Tom Woods had some great guests on for his “World War I” week. (Tom was against.) You can browse the full archives of his show, but don’t miss the interview with David R. Henderson. Also check out Anthony Gregory talking with Tom about how awful George W. Bush was. ==> I don’t know what else to say […]
Read moreDeLong and Krugman Have a High Rate of Deprecation (sic)
We also would have accepted, “Why oh why can’t we have better Keynesian bloggers?!” This isn’t worth me writing up in another outlet, but I know some of you like this petty stuff… (I sure do.) ==> Some of you may remember that Krussell and Smith wrote up a Note on Piketty, explaining why his […]
Read moreFurther Thoughts on Evolution
A month or two ago Jim Manzi dropped a link in the comments here to his dispute with Jerry Coyne on evolution. Here was Manzi’s original salvo, here’s Coyne’s response, and then Manzi answers again. They key point in all of this is that Manzi was not denying, say, that all existing life forms have […]
Read moreCan Fiscal Austerity Work With Tight Money?
[Disclaimer: Bob Wenzel doesn’t like me using the term “fiscal austerity,” since he thinks the public associates it with jacking up taxes and cutting social programs in order to bail out bankers. He has a point, but it will just get too cumbersome in this post if I try to come up with some alternate […]
Read moreLearning From Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman
[UPDATE below.] Rather than have a long series of posts discussing the fallout from my (price) inflation bet with David R. Henderson, I decided to do one comprehensive reply to Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman. I had toyed with not even responding, but two things ruled that out: (1) This isn’t a case of two […]
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