Contender #2 for the absurdity of the decade award: Nathan Lewis on the gold standard
What in the heck has happened to the editors of Forbes? It’s one thing to position oneself to be a …
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Riots are economically efficient?? Plus, buyer beware: Keurig 2.0
If you have the green stuff, and sometimes even when you don’t, you can get an “expert” to justify just …
Misc. opinion: Obama’s extra-constitutional immigration reform, Ferguson riots
It’s been said in many arguments to the affirmative of the Federal government’s authority in general or of a particular …
What’s this about ‘currency wars’?
A picture is worth a thousand words…
Expanding upon the meaning of “Pathetic”: Excuses from Fed minutes about sinking long term inflation expectations
Fellow blogger Marcus Nunes has a post about the Fed minutes in which he declares the minutes to be: Pathetic! …
One Market Monetarist on QE
George Selgin joined the discussion over at Scott Sumner’s section on Econlog, criticizing some market monetarists and “fellow travelers” for …
Summarized listing of the perverse incentives and deceptions of inflation targeting [Updated 11/01/15]
For a post today, I thought it would be helpful to summarize many of things that relate to my objections …
US House panel on African energy needs and the Ebola problem
Perhaps the world has just whizzed right by me and I’m stuck in the last decade that had no shortage …
Piling on poor Pascal Salin
Scott Sumner’s critique of a paper by Pascal Salin from the IEA was sort of a fun to read. It …
Money, Banks and QE
It’s a good thing that trained economists can communicate with each other using something that sounds a little like “Fed-speak” …
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