I have been grilling Prof. Jeff Herbener with questions for 20 years. I have not stumped him yet. He’s the department chairman of economics at Grove City College, and associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He also teaches the Austrian economics course (which, like all… Read More
From the ‘You Can’t Make This Stuff Up’ Dept.
Romney’s people think Tim Pawlenty would make a good VP nominee. This would allow them the retort, “See, there is too someone more boring and uninspiring than Mitt.” (Thanks to Lew Rockwell for the link.)
The Empirical Case Against Government Stimulus
Bob Murphy makes it.
Is This Even Possible?
Start at 2:49 if I can’t persuade you to watch the whole thing. This is Rick Wakeman.
Congratulations to Steve Bierfeldt
On being named the new executive director of the Republican Party of Iowa . I can testify from personal experience that Steve is super-competent, smart, principled, and in general just a class act. Any organization not seeking to keep Steve at all costs should have its collective head examined.
What I’ve Been Reading
In a live Q&A chat the other day, someone asked what I was reading. This was my answer: Philipp Bagus, The Tragedy of the Euro Detlev Schlichter, Paper Money Collapse Ludwig von Mises, Marxism Unmasked
The 30-Day Reading Challenge
Robert Wenzel of EconomicPolicyJournal.com devised a 30-day reading list , consisting of one article a day, intended to give people a basic familiarity with and competence in the libertarian tradition. Steve Cronin, in turn, plans to do a video series based on the list, to benefit both himself and… Read More
The Sweatshop Issue
Five minutes of contrary opinion on sweatshops.
Webster Tarpley Causes Bob Murphy Physical Pain
Webster Tarpley is often recommended to me as an insightful observer. I’m afraid I don’t see it. Tarpley thinks George W. Bush was a free-marketeer, that Wall Street favors free and open competition (are bailouts an example of this, then?), that national health care is… Read More
Parody of My Video
I did a video earlier this year called “A Dozen Things Non-Ron Paul Voters Are Basically Saying,” based on this blog post of mine . Here it is: Someone has done an animated parody of this video, complete with the same backdrop from my own video: