I’m filling in as host of the Peter Schiff Show again tomorrow (February 3). My guests will be Walter Williams and Andrew Bacevich, whose most recent books are, respectively, Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? and Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War . This will be a good one. Be sure to tune in from 10am-12pm ET… Read More
Ian Anderson to Release Thick as a Brick 2
On the 40th anniversary of the release of Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick , front man Ian Anderson will release this follow-up recording . Now if only I could find out why Martin Barre is not involved either in this project or on the upcoming tour, which is billed as… Read More
World’s Second Largest Economy? The Black Market
Courtesy of the SayAnythingBlog , this segment reports that the black market — in other words, people making free exchanges with each other without supervision and expropriation by state structures — now amounts to the world’s second-largest economy. (This unofficial economy has helped the poor more than all the… Read More
Hosting the Peter Schiff Show Tomorrow
I’m filling in for Peter again tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow’s guests will be economist and Soviet defector Yuri Maltsev, editor of Requiem for Marx , and Vikrant Reddy of Right on Crime . You can listen live for free during the broadcast, from 10am-12pm ET.
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I’m Back
Haven’t been able to blog for the past couple days; I’ve been on the road, speaking at Sheriff Richard Mack’s conference of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association in Las Vegas. My next event will be near Seattle on February 11.
‘I Am in a Debate on Facebook, and I Need Some Help…’
I get this kind of plea in my inbox all the time. I am not scolding anyone, and I have no one in particular in mind in this post. But the main problem is not so much that I’m too busy to help, although that… Read More
Catch Me in Washington State
On February 11 I’ll be speaking in Washington state , about an hour outside Seattle, for the first time since 2009. Please help spread the word, and I hope to see you there!
Murphy on the Financial Crisis
The great Bob Murphy on the culprits.
Apple to $200 Textbook Market: Game Over
The days of college kids paying $200 for a textbook may be numbered, thanks to Apple’s recently announced initiative for iPad textbooks , with multimedia capabilities, for $14.99. Any professor can design such a text, and Apple will give him a 70% royalty — six to seven… Read More
