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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Yesterday on the Peter Schiff Show I made brief mention of the fate of Ford’s Hamburgers in Sacramento, California. The last straw that forced the owner to close down was a lawsuit demanding that his counters be made compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a piece of legislation signed by George H.W. Bush (remember…
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Neoconservative bellicosity is not good politics, even if it excites the so-called base, which insists on loving neocon foreign policy. On Romney’s foreign policy speech, Dan McCarthy has it right: This was not a speech he had to make — a speech distracting from the…
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The great guys at Blimey Cow made me this wonderful video. I apologize for making another human being wear an Obama shirt, even just for play-acting.

I promised someone on the Peter Schiff Show yesterday that I would link to an article on the radio spectrum. Here it is .

Derek Donohue writes: Loved your article on LRC today about bursting the college bubble. Yahoo News, like a broken clock, can even be on point once in a while. On that same topic, Yahoo published a similar article recently that really closes the deal on the points you are making.…
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