It’s tempting to spend all your time attacking opponents of Ron Paul on the Internet. It’s easy and it’s satisfying. And, to be sure, it’s good for people to see that there are intelligent responses to these uninformed criticisms. But if you want to do…
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A recent South Carolina poll has three status-quo candidates — Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich — with a commanding lead. South Carolina Republicans evidently believe the country is basically on the right track if they’re content with candidates who pledge to change things about…
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Registrations are still being accepted for the November 8 debate in New York City between supporters of John Maynard Keynes and supporters of F.A. Hayek that I blogged about earlier this week. There’s only a little room left, so be sure to send in your RSVP…
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A Suffolk University poll of Florida Republicans finds 25% in support of Mitt Romney and 24% supporting Herman Cain. In other words, these voters believe the country is about 4 percent off track but basically all right. For all their talk about how bad Obama is, apparently things…
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Turns out a graph of the trend in the Gini coefficient, which is often used to measure economic inequality, for the United States since 1994 is completely flat . There has been no change in individual inequality, but some change in household inequality. Here’s a post that makes sense…
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Although we’ve heard a great deal about how “deregulation” caused the financial crisis, specific cases of repealed legislation that would have prevented it are few and far between. The one some progressives seem to have settled on is the “repeal” of the Glass-Steagall Act of…
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But there’s no denying it.

Here’s the raw footage of the interview my colleague Jimmy Morrison did with Prof. Joseph Salerno of Pace University. We’ll be drawing from it for the documentary that’s in the works based on Meltdown , my 2009 New York Times bestseller on the financial crisis and…
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Check out the website of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma , which defies current practice by actually listing its prices on its website. Their prices are as low as one-fifth those of typical hospitals. Practitioners avoid government involvement in their practice as much as possible. On the welcome page…
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Nicholas Wapshott, author of the new book Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics , is hosting a debate in New York City on November 8 that will pit these two thinkers’ ideas against each other once again.  The event is by registration only, and you must register by this Wednesday, November…
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