Paul Krugman’s latest missive in the New York Times is a nice example of his two recurrent themes, namely self-regard and world-weariness . Ostensibly, the piece is about economists who in Krugman’s view incorrectly predicted hyperinflation would result from the Fed’s aggressive actions following the 2008 Crash. His primary target is Marvin
Justin Raimondo, longtime editor of AntiWar.com and a great friend of the Mises Institute, has died. Far too young, we might add, at 67. We can only mourn the silencing of his voice, and acknowledge him as perhaps the most important libertarian foreign policy writer of the past several decades. Yet unlike many peace advocates, Justin read and
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan has a big idea, almost Trumplike with a T. Her proposal to save us from the Coronavirus and economic collapse involves giving every American $2,000 in a pre-loaded debit card, to be followed by additional $1,000 monthly recharges until the economy recovers (aka in perpetuity). This is simply a version of
On the latest episode of Part Of The Problem , Dave Smith continues his Wednesday One-on-One interview series with Jeff Deist. Jeff and Dave discuss D.C. as “Hollywood for ugly people,” Ancapistan (and how that would work in a real world setting), the future of religion in western society, and how the Fed may be responsible for lower birthrates.
George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen has penned a brief manifesto for what he calls “State Capacity Libertarianism” on the Marginal Revolution blog. In it he makes the case for libertarians to embrace “state capacity” in certain limited cases. You can read his essay here. My initial responses, in no particular order, are as follows: 1.
In 1969 the hottest new libertarian publication was The Libertarian Forum , edited by Murray Rothbard in New York and Karl Hess in Washington. Hess, famously as associate of Barry Goldwater before becoming a deeply disillusioned anarchist, was a man of many talents—welding, motorcycle racing, and no-holds-barred philosophy among them. His street
Sean Stevens of Heterodox Academy and Professor Mitchell Langbert of Brooklyn College have a new article published by the National Association of Scholars. They examined professors’ self-identified political views, party affiliation, voter registrations, and FEC (Federal Election Commission) records of political donations. Their research appears
Dr. Joe Salerno recently penned a response to economist Tyler Cowen’s call for “S tate Capacity Libertarianism .” It’s a very important essay, and I encourage you to read it. It gets to the heart of a very important and broad question in America today, namely whether what we can call the ”managerial capitalism” of the twentieth and early
Sometimes terrible things happen without any human malfeasance, and the novel Wuhan coronavirus may in fact be one of those things. It is entirely plausible the virus emerged from “ wet markets “ in the Hubei Province of China rather than as a fumbled (or worse, intentionally released) bioweapon cooked up by the Xi Jinping government. We may
The dull, tired, whiny Old Gray Lady has another opinion piece about America’s slavish devotion to free market orthodoxy, but this time with a slight twist: it’s economists themselves to blame for the anti-government revolution. Yet while the article’s title held promise —” Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In ,” it turns out the author had
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