Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute explains his organization’s willingness to work with libertarians, who in the old days were ritually denounced by Objectivists: I don’t think there’s been a significant change in terms of our attitude towards libertarians. Two things have happened. We’ve grown,…
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Peter Klein gives a brief explanation of the work of Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley.

The lapel mic I use records in only one channel, and the other channel is white noise. So I wind up having to clean out the white noise and then combine the channels. Obviously this is stupid. Surely it must be easy to find a…
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Zhang Weiying warned about malinvestment, about artificially low interest rates and stimulus, etc., and is now seeing vindication. (Thanks to Murray Sabrin and everyone else who sent me the WSJ piece.)

Well, not quite. But Rob Nikolewski of New Mexico’s Capitol Report named some famous people and asked me to comment on each one, after a speech I gave in Albuquerque yesterday.

Willingness to delay gratification. Courtesy of Gary North , check out this experiment involving children who were told they could eat one marshmallow now or two in a little while. The differences between these children later in life are astonishing. (The same phenomenon applies to civilizations, as…
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How I was introduced to the Austrian School of economics .

I covered a lot of ground on yesterday’s Peter Schiff Show , and interviewed Steve Forbes to boot. Thanks to the mystery person who put it online!

I’m doing a live video Q&A tonight at 10:30pm ET for half an hour. (I think I may have said 10pm in my newsletter the other day; sorry about that.) Tonight there will be a chat box at lfnyc.com , and that’s where you’ll go. Ask a question,…
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