Dan McCarthy at The American Conservative writes: …Romney, meanwhile, minimized the policy differences between himself and Obama: he won’t cut taxes on the rich; he says, “you can’t have a free market without regulation”; and he insists that his repeal-and-replace alternative to Obamacare won’t keep… Read More
Why Does the GOP Keep Nominating People Like Romney?
I discuss this and other issues in a conversation with Dan McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative .
Answering the Same Old Arguments Against Sound Money
My remarks at the Mises Institute ’s Mises Circle in Manhattan.
Social Media During Debate
The folks at The Bubble, our forthcoming documentary, are doing live social media during tonight’s debate. Like on Facebook and follow on Twitter . Hashtag #whatdebate.
Would 15-20 Million Deaths Have Been OK?
The Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm died this past Monday . Hobsbawm was far inferior as a scholar to a great many other Marxists, but the British establishment’s lack of discernment made him a celebrity. There is an analogy here with Paul Krugman, who is doubtless viewed with contempt by… Read More
Bob Murphy on Krugman, QE3, the Liquidity Trap, and More
I talked to Bob last week while hosting the Peter Schiff Show .
The First Lady’s School Lunches Stink, so What Now?
The First Lady is dead wrong about the national school lunch guidelines — the low-fat, low-calorie meals she proposes are unhealthy and inhuman. But the correct reply is not that she should suggest more satisfying food, as some conservatives contend. The correct reply is: what… Read More
I Was Fooled by the War-Makers
Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn’t know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian. Like… Read More
Down With the Debt
Writes Charlie Kirk: Your speeches on YouTube have inspired me to take action on a national stage. I am 18 years old and a recent high school graduate. So often in high school we are told what to think instead of how to think. For year I… Read More
Hitler Was Not a Good Economist
In some anti-Fed, pro-fiat money circles (yes, they exist) you will actually hear defenses of Adolf Hitler’s economic policy, on the grounds that it yielded a super economy for Germany. Germany was engaged in military Keynesianism. These writers mistake this for prosperity. It’s the error… Read More
