For the advanced student, here’s an excellent paper by Joe Salerno showing how Austrian business cycle theory makes sense of the recent boom-bust cycle that culminated in the disasters of 2008. For people who get the basic story of things, which I outlined in Meltdown , and who… Read More
Kid-Friendly Primal Lunches?
My wife and I are interested in lunch suggestions faithful to the Primal Blueprint that kids can easily take to school. We welcome your input, and thank you!
Who Was the Least Bad U.S. President?
Martin van Buren. Jeff Hummel makes the case in a paper delivered at a conference I attended and spoke at myself 1998, while still a lad. Here’s Murray Rothbard making the case for van Buren about a decade earlier, with the important caveat that he was unlibertarian… Read More
Higgs on the Depression, Today’s Economy, and More
I had a chance to talk to the great Robert Higgs while filling in for Peter Schiff earlier this month. We talked about the Great Depression, the current malaise, TARP — the sort of things we all find interesting. Bob, in case you don’t know,… Read More
MSM: Stick to Approved Opinions, Citizen
I read a Reuters article today alleging that Ron Paul supporters are drawn from people who don’t have a very good grasp of the issues. Translation: they learn about them from sources other than Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal, so their understanding isn’t in… Read More
Salvador Dali on What’s My Line
The rather odd Salvador Dali makes life difficult but fun for the panelists on one of my all-time favorite TV shows, What’s My Line? The show is from before my time, but thanks to GSN, which runs it at 3:00am ET, I can record it… Read More
Operation Stump for Paul Winners Announced
Here . Adam Kokesh and I have subsequently made our own videos:
It’s Not Christmas Without…
…Perry Como, at least in the Woods household. It was Perry Como and the Ray Conniff Singers in my house as I grew up, and that’s what we like around this time of year now that I have a family of my own. My favorites… Read More
Don’t You Dare Wish Me a Merry Christmas
Michael Boldin, founder of the heroic Tenth Amendment Center , reports that he’s never received more angry replies from an email sent by his organization than to this nice Christmas appeal: THANK YOU. Making the transition to a fulltime grassroots activist a few years ago has brought with… Read More
The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution
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