Philipp Bagus is professor of economics at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. He earned his Bachelor and Master at the University of Münster and his Ph.D. from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos with Jesús Huerta de Soto as his adviser on a thesis on deflation. He is the author of The Tragedy of the Euro – How Political Interests Created a Self-destroying System (forthcoming) and Deep Freeze: Global Credit Markets and the Icelandic Financial Crisis (forthcoming with co-author David Howden).

Janet Yellen, vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, told the Wall Street Journal that without massive printing of money “I’m having a hard time seeing where really robust growth can come from.”

[Lightly edited transcript of speech given at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, June 6, 2010.]

Bill Anderson is associate professor of economics at Frostburg State University. He received his doctorate in economics from Auburn University in 1999, his master’s in economics from Clemson University in 1984, and his undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee in 1975. He is graduated from Baylor School of Chattanooga.

Concerning the letter from economists protesting the Fed’s QE2, perhaps the details of monetary policy have been the subject of this level of public debate before, but I don’t recall it personally. At the same time, I’ve never heard of a Fed governor who was so open about his plan to inflate the money supply. It was almost as if he wanted to generate inflation expectations and play off market psychology to drive down the dollar.

My Forbes.com article proposing that we abolish the TSA has gotten a surprising amount of attention; it’s up to almost 70,000 views with over 3,000 Facebook shares and 500 tweets. Not bad for an article that’s about 18 hours old. Here are a couple of additional thoughts to further the conversation:

Yet another alarming IP development–a post from Volokh by David Post (h/t Skip Oliva):

Once Again, the Copyright/Trademark Tail Tries to Wag the Internet Dog

David Post • November 13, 2010 9:17 am

Robert Shiller warns that taxpayers–those stupid people who irrationally object to being looted to benefit large banks and corporations because these stupid people don’t understand how stealing trillions is actually a necessary and wonderful thing–are not up for another round of bailouts, and yet such bailouts are inevitable. In fact, they’ve barely begun, he says. So the next time around, the state and its connected elites need a better vocabulary in which to frame the criminal enterprise.

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