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* At MasterResource I tut-tut Robert Frank's NYT column on climate change that scared the children. I use the latest Economic Report fr...

Over at MasterResource, Chip Knappenberger (who is a published climate scientist, though he is ABD I believe) has a great post documenting ...

Krugman continues to outdo himself. In this article he somehow ends up saying: "In short, right now America has China over a barrel, n...

[CORRECTION within post, below.] Kevin Clauson gave an interesting talk at the Austrian Scholars Conference concerning the apparent (but ...

Case in point .

I actually don't have a problem with this lengthy review of New Deal revisionism (thanks to reader teqzilla for the tip), because the w...

Wow, you know I must be super busy if I forgot to blog my Mises Daily on Monday. It was "Trade Deficits and Fiat Currencies," sho...

Lately I have tried to do a better job of "observing the Sabbath," meaning that I try not to work on Sundays. As a consultant, I n...

Hey kids, just to let you know, I am swamped with "real work" for the foreseeable future. (I'm even busier than this guy .) Al...

Lately people have been asking me how I get "so much" done. This always strikes me as funny since, at any given time, I'm usua...

* This blew me away: Joe Salerno discusses Murray Rothbard's call for anti-statists to pull their money out of the commercial banking s...

This made me chuckle three separate times, and that's good enough for government-bashing work. (HT2 Viresh Amin)

This is hilarious. Lew Rockwell sends along the Cleveland Fed's latest video in its, "Really bad drawings, real simple explanation...

Reports of the imminent collapse of the monetary base have thus far been greatly exaggerated ... I'm not saying that Bernanke was lying ...

Paul Krugman links to Mark Thoma who in turn cribs from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Fran to give us... The definition of "po...

I want to give a quick summary of my views on violent resistance to a tyrannical government, in light of the Austin plane attack and the (po...

This is a pretty uppity article by Matthew Lynn on Bloomberg (HT2 Jeff Tucker ): The U.K. has been in Keynes overdrive for the past 18 mon...

Viresh Amin sends this very interesting snippet. Does anyone know what the official response to this is? Incidentally, I did a decent amou...

Details are still sketchy, but apparently two people were carried out on stretchers from an IRS facility and a Hazmat team was called in. ...

[UPDATE below.] This is an esoteric piece , but is actually one of my personal favorites. I was struggling with this notion of an "in...

I caught a really bad cold on Jekyll Island so I am going to make this a brief post. After the festivities last night, some of the young Lv...

I believe it was the acerbic von Pepe who said to me over email that Scott Sumner was right--the focus on money was an illusion. (This was a...

If the international bankers are smart, they will have added a secret ingredient to the catered lunch on Saturday. A bunch of us rebels are ...

If I didn't know any better, I'd say this was a conspiracy theory involving high-ranking US government officials, so it can't po...

Robert Barro has a pretty interesting WSJ op ed today, in which he uses his historical analysis of government spending and tax multipliers ...

Here's the rest of his email: A bad one? Just saw this ad: So, here's the script-- a government take-over of a major auto manuf...

(Not three cheers, mind you.) The intro : Ever since someone in grad school deviously introduced me to the concept of "irrational...

In a recent blog post titled, "More on Disinflation" Paul Krugman comments on the headlines trying to interpret the recent CPI an...

The comments on my first attempt got swamped. (Hey kids, can we please drop the potty talk?) The problem is that people started arguing a...

[UPDATE below.] The well-read von Pepe has been sending me links from Charles Rowley. I will have more to say on them in the future, but t...

Glenn Greenwald documents the contradictions in the Establishment's use of the word "terrorism"--which it denied to Joseph St...

Carlos Lara is a businessman in Nashville who contacted me out of the blue back (I think) in late summer 2008. He was a student of Austrian ...

* If you want to be a Summer Fellow and join the elite club, look here . * Chip Knappenberger argues that it is far from obvious that lat...

These media hits accumulated in my PRI inbox while I was at the Infinite Banking seminar. The op eds ran on different days, and hence do not...