In Kudlow’s recent article on NRO, he argues that inflation is currently nonexistent. He exclaims, “Liberal Keynesian politicians and their academic advisors predicted inflation in the 1980s. They were dead wrong. Some of the very same voices are again predicting inflation now. They will be dead wrong again.”
Concerning Mises and the opera, I once said, perhaps even at a formal Mises event, as a joke, that I oppose all government intervention, except that the govt should force everyone to read Man, Economy and State. I was trying to show what a moderate I was. I’ll bet that if it turns out that Mises said what is claimed he said about opera, it was a similarly minded joke.
In his articles (”The Trade Question,” The Washington Times 8/8/03 and “Second Thoughts on Free Trade,” nytimes.com 1/6/04) attacking the application of the Ricardian argument in favor of free trade to the modern world, Paul Craig Roberts is half right.
Writes a friend: “I thought this letter might gladen your heart”:
In an article titled “How To Defang All The Banks Once for all“ author J. N.
In the December 27th Wall Street Journal online, Economics Nobel laureate Vernon L. Smith lays out a program to jumpstart the Iraqi economy and give Iraq a set of institutions fitted to the needs of a free and prosperous commonwealth. He spies “a historic opportunity” for W “to craft a new geopolitical-economic paradigm that could—and should—become a world model for the movement of assets from governments to citizens.”
From the Washington Times (scroll down):
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is only the most recent native Austrian to make waves in American policy circles.
Sent to my list: “Lew Rockwell gave me my start in journalism, so it’s my pleasure to return the favor in small part by informing you of his new book, Speaking of Liberty. Lew is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and I know of no writer who defends the cause of freedom with greater ardor and erudition. To learn more about Speaking of Liberty, click here. You can read my interview with Lew on “September 11 and the Anti-Capitalist Mentality”
