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2010

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December 2010

  1. Packaging Insanity
  2. Some Links
  3. Perry, Tierney, Simon… and Krugman
  4. Ronald Harry Coase, Happy 100th!
  5. Choice
  6. Faux Science Parading as Science
  7. Both Sides Now
  8. Krugman Should Study Julian Simon
  9. Why Mises matters
  10. Is Basic Health Care a ‘Right’?
  11. Peace and Free Trade
  12. No Potted History of the Role of Juries
  13. Taking a break
  14. Hayek Poster Contest Winner
  15. Open Letter to the President of the Sodexo Foundation
  16. Self-deception
  17. Please support the next rap video
  18. More on 19th-century U.S. Trade and Growth
  19. Zeitgeist 2010
  20. Protective Tariffs, Revenue Tariffs, and American Economic Growth
  21. A Soup of Confusion
  22. Simpler story
  23. Brad Delong’s analysis of the housing crisis
  24. The size of things
  25. Pay Back
  26. A big man and a little man
  27. All the devils are here
  28. A love song for Hayek
  29. The Myth of the Transcendent State
  30. Trade and Globalization
  31. Government’Rnt’Us
  32. No Labels
  33. Letat
  34. Asking vs. Commanding
  35. Obstruct Obstruction
  36. Mass prosperity
  37. The moral case against the estate tax
  38. Mark Thoma and I see the world differently
  39. Answering a Question
  40. The private provision of public goods
  41. Some Links
  42. Still Fed Up
  43. Bootstrapped Self-Sufficiency
  44. More Meyerson Mythology
  45. Review
  46. For the children?
  47. Don’t Get Fooled By Accounting Conventions
  48. And Jevons Was No Marginal Scholar
  49. Some Links
  50. The economics of haircuts
  51. Another Open Letter to Sen. Sherrod Brown
  52. Fallows on Orszag
  53. Hayek poster contest update
  54. The Grinch meets Coase and Pigou
  55. Tread-Bare Mercantilism
  56. Of Central Importance
  57. Lose the We
  58. Creative Destruction
  59. Chronicling Crony Capitalism
  60. Some Links
  61. People Produce (and Export) Only in Order to Consume (and Import)
  62. Open Letter to Charlie Stross
  63. Better Yet: Sink the Ships Along with the Cargo
  64. Taxophiliac
  65. When Words Lose Their Meaning….
  66. Capital markets vs. Wall St.
  67. False Choice
  68. What’s Wrong with Keynes
  69. Taxes in the real world
  70. The Cutest Animals on the Planet
  71. John Lennon
  72. Fumbling at the Fed
  73. Worth more than a thousand words
  74. Tax cuts for the rich
  75. Few Words, Plenty of Wisdom
  76. More Meyerson Muddleheadedness
  77. Genius 2
  78. Open Letter to Sen. Mary Landrieu
  79. Klein Over at Cato Unbound on Overlords
  80. A Coasean Turn at Politics
  81. On the Tax Burden
  82. Some Links
  83. Taxing Credulity
  84. Open Letter to U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman
  85. United Auto Weenies
  86. Big Banks as Bootleggers
  87. Keynesian sentence of the day
  88. “You sound like a democrat”
  89. Maybe the coolest thing ever
  90. On this Theory, Borders are Wealth-Enhancing Opportunities
  91. Trumped-Up Fiction
  92. Getting Better
  93. Some Links
  94. Crony
  95. Domestic Protectionism

November 2010

  1. Misunderstanding of Free Trade: Instance 23,784
  2. Open Letter to Rep. Mike Pence
  3. The Pilgrims experiment with communal property
  4. We all fall down
  5. Does Trade ‘Loot’ Jobs?
  6. Capitalist Oasis
  7. Anthony Comstock, Progressive
  8. Simonizing Bill Gates
  9. If Only Peter Bauer Were Around to Act as Judge
  10. On Posner on Antitrust
  11. Kling vs. Krulong
  12. School Lessons
  13. Who Serves Corporate Interests?
  14. Rethinking Central Banking
  15. Thankful for the Invisible Hand
  16. Apparently It’s Collectivism Only If It Is Pursued as a Means of Privation
  17. Happy Turkey Day!
  18. Fair Trade Is Less Fair (and Less Free) than Free Trade
  19. Awaiting the Savior
  20. More on the Trade Deficit
  21. The case for doing less or nothing
  22. Production vs. Predation
  23. Public Choice 101
  24. Dopey Strange
  25. Stop Selling Us Stuff At Such Low Prices!
  26. Kelvin on Coal
  27. Some Links
  28. Bill Gates Has As Much Control Over My Life As I Have Over His
  29. Mob Economics
  30. A Banana Republic?
  31. Sink the QE2
  32. David Ricardo talks to Ben Bernanke
  33. What technology wants
  34. Wrong goal
  35. Farce Becoming More Farcical
  36. Inflated Reputation
  37. Denationalize Money
  38. Bruce Springsteen on motivation and politics
  39. I talk about stimulus
  40. Uncommon cents
  41. From ‘Free to Choose’ to ‘Choose to Obey’
  42. Exporting Fables
  43. Is Mercantilism in Humans’ DNA?
  44. Unbalanced Hysteria
  45. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeaaaahhh!
  46. Greedy capitalism vs. the beauty of collective action
  47. Nudie Scan Bootlegger
  48. A Subsidized Spokesman
  49. The Fed, the Ben Bernank, and the William Dudley
  50. Open Letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham
  51. Robert Frank on Inequality
  52. “Son Kills Parents and then Complains of Being Orphaned”
  53. A Reply to Critics
  54. No Deficit of Misunderstanding
  55. White Gold
  56. One Reason to Hate Conservatives
  57. Or: “New York Firm Imports Labor from New Jersey”
  58. Has the Fed been a failure?
  59. Poster Contest
  60. Shackling the Fed
  61. Geniuses At Work
  62. Prancing, Preaching, Posing Pols
  63. More on the death of physical books
  64. This is your mind on TV
  65. Some Links
  66. Red is Red…. and, Apparently, Also Green
  67. Hazlett vs. Biden
  68. Do ‘Progressives’ Understand the Necessary Conditions for Progress?
  69. Not Worrying About “Unequal” Wealth ‘Distribution’
  70. With Apologies to Debbie
  71. Mausoleum
  72. Roundabout Means of Production
  73. Mill v. Thaler
  74. One Small Seed
  75. No Neo-Cons
  76. Beware Policies that are Pro-Business
  77. The Year of the Mercantilist
  78. Krugman Reviews a Glib, If Unwitting, Frontman for Rent-Seeking Corporations
  79. Four Different Ways to Spend Money
  80. An Alternative Tariff
  81. Seizing control
  82. Joe’s Income Doesn’t Belong to Sam
  83. The evil Apple empire
  84. Camp Politics
  85. By George
  86. Although When I Disagree with George Selgin, I Worry….
  87. A Nation of Slack-Jawed Yokels?
  88. Like Father, Like Son (I Report Proudly)
  89. Government failure
  90. No Party of Know
  91. Smart Lights
  92. The Sneaquel
  93. Free Trade: More Than About Mere Stuff
  94. Rosner on securitization
  95. What is Unseen
  96. Zombie economics

October 2010

  1. Does Real-World Air Resistance Nullify the Law of Gravity?
  2. Shed a Tear
  3. Open Letter to James Fallows
  4. Some Links
  5. Fast Fools?
  6. The Geniuses Who Lord Over Us
  7. Making the world a better place
  8. Understanding Regime Uncertainty
  9. Barack Delano Obama
  10. “Liberals” Aren’t Liberal; “Liberals” Aren’t for Liberty
  11. Isms
  12. The Earth Is Flat. See for Yourself!
  13. Steve Hanke, Among Others, Has Written on This Matter
  14. Self-Serving Lies
  15. C+I+G+(X-M) Hides All the Action
  16. Some Links
  17. Bann-ed Together
  18. Managing to Screw-Up Trade
  19. Hey, What’s the Big Idea?!
  20. The Choking “Yolk” of Protectionism
  21. Sneak Preview
  22. Perhaps the Gulf Stream Is to Blame
  23. I Just Want to Celebrate Market-Driven Human Creativity
  24. No More Bullying, Part II
  25. No More Bullying
  26. Some Links
  27. Wrenches for Wenches!
  28. Holland Tunnel Vision
  29. But Joseph Stiglitz Has a Theory that Disputes this Fact
  30. Give Me a Cigarette
  31. Some Links
  32. Slaughterhouse
  33. Take an Aspirin
  34. Exploit Me!
  35. The iPad after a week
  36. Ridley, the optimist
  37. Then and Now, Taxes
  38. Some Links
  39. Legislators Are Not Lawmakers
  40. The X-istence of Existence Value
  41. Eyes on the Prize
  42. Or, As Bob Higgs Says, ‘Rob-O-Voters’
  43. The Choice
  44. A few thoughts on the iPad
  45. If Real Wars Were Like Trade Wars….
  46. How Big?
  47. Local Humor
  48. Fair Trade is Good
  49. Hey, Big Spender
  50. Testing 1,2,3
  51. Where has all the money gone?
  52. Thriving
  53. Government Unleashes a Process of Destructive Destruction
  54. Imagine That!
  55. How bailouts (and political power) destroy markets
  56. Why is he getting another chance?
  57. Irwin on France’s role in the Great Depression
  58. A Genuinely Troubling Source of Campaign Funds
  59. The Strange ‘Logic’ of Collective Decision-Making
  60. Mencken on Woodrow Wilson
  61. Californians Are Investing In Chile
  62. Low Prices Are a Benefit
  63. Exports and the Depression of 1920-21
  64. And To Make Matters Worse, They Keep Consumer Prices Here Low!
  65. A thought experiment
  66. Some Links
  67. They DO Have a Comparative Advantage at Imprisoning Political Dissenters
  68. Does government spending create jobs?
  69. Do You Believe in Magic?
  70. Buckle up
  71. Austerity or prosperity?
  72. Thank you, Mr. Llosa
  73. The Curious Task
  74. We Need a Vaccine Against the Virus of Protectionism
  75. Broken Eggs and No Omelets
  76. A Keynesian House
  77. Some Links
  78. Lyndon Larouche Frequently Cites this Passage from Smith, Too
  79. Trade Allows Each of Us to Take Advantage of the Unique Talents Of All of Us
  80. He didn’t get the memo
  81. The loudest bag
  82. Game theorist on game theory
  83. %*$%#$& Restrictions!
  84. The Logic of Trade
  85. More on Mercantilism and 19th-century American Economic Growth
  86. Did Mercantilism Promote Economic Growth in the U.S.?
  87. Social Networking for Free Trade
  88. Another Open Letter to Sen. Sherrod Brown
  89. Some Links
  90. Caplan on immigration
  91. James M. Buchanan
  92. An Open Letter to A Correspondent
  93. Real-Cash-Balance Effect
  94. And Also, What Would be the Point of The Oath of Office?
  95. Long-ago Texts
  96. Why Stop With Such A Modest Measure?
  97. Paradox

September 2010

  1. Duh
  2. Heavily Influenced by GMU Economics
  3. Take That, Xiānshēng!
  4. Some Links
  5. On Just and Unjust Obligations
  6. An Open Letter to Sen. Sherrod Brown
  7. A Convenient Myth
  8. Some Links
  9. Those unintended consequences
  10. People, Not Nations, Trade
  11. Grinding Away at Protectionism
  12. Home Runs at the WSJ
  13. Would You Really Shoot Someone for Smoking a Joint?
  14. El Hombre
  15. The Years of the Locusts
  16. Prescient Tocqueville
  17. Some Links
  18. McKinnon, Meyerson, & Money
  19. Antediluvian Mercantilist
  20. A Magic Show Without a Rabbit in the Hat
  21. Mary O’Grady on Manuel Ayau
  22. Stossel on the Future
  23. Some Links
  24. How it sounds vs. How it really works, Part II
  25. And this Infatuation Isn’t Even Sober and Mature!
  26. It’s over! (A long time ago)
  27. Krugman and Taxes
  28. Recycling a Point About Recycling
  29. A chronicle of Krugmania
  30. As a Rule, Protectionism Masks Itself as Competition
  31. When It’s Labor Unions Vs. Gaia, Unions Win
  32. And now for something completely different
  33. Free Trade
  34. Are Capitalists Insufficiently Greedy?
  35. Perry Edits Meyerson
  36. Finally, some evidence from Krugman
  37. The voice of reason vs. the voice of insanity
  38. Escaping from Where to Where?
  39. Do we need a new economics?
  40. Hayek and the Tea Party
  41. Some Links
  42. What is to be done?
  43. The romance of government vs. the reality
  44. Ambiguous definitions
  45. TARP and the small banks
  46. Kling on the influence of money
  47. The “s” word
  48. Unbalanced ‘Reasoning’
  49. Does spending create prosperity?
  50. Why inequality is a red herring
  51. Some Links
  52. Synoptic Naming and Promiscuous Ideas
  53. Tonelson & Kearns Peddle Ptolemaic Economics
  54. Prices Report Reality; Government Threatens to Shoot Messenger (Or At Least to Falsify the Message)
  55. The Many Voices of Voice
  56. Larry White on the ‘German Economic Miracle’
  57. Crumbling Infrastructure?
  58. Whose fault was it?
  59. Educational “reform”
  60. Some Links
  61. The Multi-Dimensionality of ‘Efficiency’
  62. War is bad for children, other living things, and the economy
  63. Succeeding by Failing
  64. Investment and Consumption
  65. Knowledge and Power
  66. Temper, Temper….
  67. Lose the “We”
  68. Castrotopia
  69. Not Heaven Cent
  70. Why Hoover is considered a do-nothing
  71. If I Were A Shill for Industry….
  72. Progress
  73. Gladstone Was No Neocon
  74. The sublime and the mundane
  75. Hoover vs. Roosevelt
  76. Pollution Trends
  77. Some Links
  78. Whack-a-Mole

August 2010

  1. Secure Our Freedom
  2. The Gander Is At Least As Guilty as the Goose
  3. Bambi turned into Godzilla
  4. He Can’t Know
  5. Low-Cost Explanation of Cost
  6. I, Fuel Pump
  7. Unsatisfactory Prophet
  8. Some Links
  9. The Europeanization of America’s Economy
  10. Always Ask “As Compared to What?”
  11. Drive
  12. One-Dimensional Thinking Never Works Well
  13. Fording the Gorge Between Fiction and Fact
  14. What Were These ‘Czars’ Smoking?
  15. Some Links
  16. Pray, Hear Me Out
  17. Why are Crunchy ‘Progressives’ So Prejudiced Against Non-local Folk?
  18. No Resources Occur “Naturally”
  19. How it sounds vs. how it really works
  20. Investing Other People’s Money
  21. The End Ain’t Nigh (for the world nor for predictions of its doom)
  22. DeLong on Hayek on Democracy
  23. An Economic Yokel
  24. Hayek on Unreasonable and Reasonable Reason
  25. Some Links
  26. Super-naive
  27. Munger on rent-seeking
  28. Regulate THIS!
  29. Presumptions Matter
  30. Doux Commerce
  31. A Note On the Pay of Undocumented Workers
  32. If Smith Grows an Apple and Eats It, Does the Apple Come from Jones?
  33. 43=6, When Government Officials Do the Math
  34. Social Responsibility and Market Signals
  35. Response to an Angry Critic
  36. Shifty Analysis
  37. Some Links
  38. An Hypothesis Easily Tested, Daily
  39. The Emperor’s Green Underwear Are Way Too Pricey
  40. Is using InTrade illegal?
  41. Unleashing the power of Keynes
  42. Locavores are loco
  43. Deficit Deniers
  44. The Reality of Competition and the Theory of Monopoly
  45. Live Free Or Die
  46. Which One Do You Share?
  47. Anti-Antitrust
  48. Some Links
  49. The Carpenters Who Build Your House Aren’t Equipped to Tell You How to Live In It
  50. Health insurance for the elderly?
  51. Monopoly taxation
  52. Lou Dobbs, Protectionist
  53. Deficient Economics
  54. Lawn Economics
  55. What’s wrong with research in the social sciences?
  56. Inconvenient Truths for “Environmentalists”
  57. Some Links
  58. David Kennedy on the Great Depression
  59. Use Spoons Rather than Shovels
  60. In a Funk Over Trade
  61. Leave Us Alone
  62. Some Links
  63. Getting Real
  64. They Come Here to Acquire Wealth?? Horrors!
  65. What Say You, Keynesians?
  66. Some Links
  67. The Grave Consequences of Burying Competition
  68. The Government-Created Moral Hazard Was There Even Before 1999
  69. Truth or Consequences
  70. Reports of the Earth’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated
  71. “…a rich, glutinous mixture of animal manure, dead cats and dogs, ashes, straw, and human excrement.”
  72. Trade Notes
  73. Some Links
  74. No Shame
  75. Don’t Raise Taxes
  76. Maybe We Should Prohibit the Wheel, Too
  77. Something’s gotta give
  78. Dedicated to Muso
  79. Worth a thousand words
  80. Manuel “Muso” Ayau (1925-2010)
  81. Some Links
  82. Income-Earning Man
  83. Successful Bailout?
  84. Some Links
  85. Even King George II had an Official ‘Bugg Destroyer’ to Shoo Bugs from his Palaces’ Furniture and Curtains
  86. All Costs are the Subjective Expected Values of Foregone Opporunities

July 2010

  1. “Measuring” the impact of the stimulus
  2. Undertaxed?
  3. Seen and Unseen
  4. Some Links
  5. Choose to Save
  6. There Ain’t No Such Thing As Free Energy Independence
  7. Exporting Trade Fallacies
  8. Plural Pronoun Confusion
  9. Some Links
  10. Monopoly-Privilege Agents are Skilled at Verbal Legerdemain
  11. The Origins of Moral Sentiments
  12. Prufrockian Political Economy
  13. Today vs. tomorrow
  14. Congress Created Them All
  15. Monetary Nationalism Is a Curse
  16. Some Links
  17. And It Said “Let There Be Higher Wages.” And There Were.
  18. The Hayek Interviews
  19. Politics Trumping Science? Never!
  20. Tax Cuts and Aggregate Demand
  21. Some Links
  22. What went wrong–a narrative is born
  23. Workers’ Paradise
  24. Is Pessimism Rational?
  25. Some Links
  26. Industrial Policy – Not
  27. Remember Chapter 1 of A. Smith and Chapter 7 of D. Ricardo
  28. Persistent unemployment
  29. Macro Thought Experiment II
  30. He Should Bone-up on History
  31. Woulda coulda shoulda
  32. The $550 million typo
  33. New hires or new jobs?
  34. Experts at work
  35. Pension spike
  36. Some Links
  37. Simple 2
  38. The road to poverty
  39. The Greek part of Oakland
  40. Applaud Productivity
  41. Further stimulation
  42. Sticky (and very high)
  43. Stimulating Thoughts
  44. Love and Death in the Kremlin
  45. Irrationally Pessimistic about Corporations
  46. Enraptured by Verbal Hocus-Pocus
  47. Questions for the Laureate
  48. Some Links
  49. Easterly channels Hayek
  50. A Grove of Misconceptions
  51. Beautiful visual storytelling
  52. Sumner on “Gambling”
  53. All the news that’s fit to print (plus some more)
  54. Legislators’ Ignorance of the Legislation is No Excuse
  55. Kling on the weird world of banking
  56. “And then He said, ‘Let there be Higher Wages'”
  57. Hmmmm……
  58. Many and Vague
  59. Some Links
  60. Freedom Day
  61. Failure
  62. A Convenient Myth
  63. Stossel on America
  64. Phew. I thought he was a racist
  65. Obama’s future
  66. Shovel-ready, revisited
  67. Factoryocracy
  68. Some Links

June 2010

  1. Bastiat
  2. School Choice in the Land of Stalin’s Birth
  3. Wisdom from Will
  4. Oops, they may have made the data up
  5. In Dubious Battle
  6. The Political Animal
  7. Good day for Hayek
  8. That Which Has Costs Often Has Benefits
  9. Obsessed With Aggregate Demand
  10. Some Links
  11. The beauty of models
  12. Arnold on mortgages
  13. Open Letter to the Head of Boeing
  14. Some Links
  15. Isner wins
  16. I love IJ
  17. Kill It So that It No Longer Fears Death
  18. The day in sports
  19. Who Is We?
  20. New Time for Stossel
  21. Hardly a Pressing Concern
  22. Thugs
  23. The Music of Adam Smith
  24. Sumner on neoliberalism and growth
  25. Fringe Thinking
  26. Some Links
  27. Paul Samuelson Misread Hayek
  28. The final tally isn’t in yet
  29. Untitled
  30. Hayek on a roll
  31. Notes from a diehard
  32. Division of Knowledge
  33. The Importance of Rules – the Vitality of Principles
  34. A trend or fooled by randomness?
  35. People’s Romance
  36. Speaking in St. Louis
  37. Some Links
  38. Copying in the fashion world
  39. Matt Ridley and Ideas Having Sex
  40. Government-controlled Prices are Freely Set Prices
  41. Build It and They Will Prosecute
  42. Some Links
  43. More spending but no additional learning
  44. Preventing the next crisis
  45. Justice and the Rule of Law
  46. Theater
  47. Unfair!
  48. Ron Zappe, Entrepreneur
  49. Progressively Uninformed
  50. Some Links
  51. Protectionist Poison
  52. Last call
  53. We are inept
  54. Unjust Comparison
  55. Hint: One of these Dates is Really a Date of Baptism
  56. Green Thinking
  57. The Necessary Ignorance of Our Leaders
  58. The Theory of Free Banking
  59. North and South
  60. Some More Links
  61. Some Links
  62. Is the Gaza embargo a crime?
  63. Cleaning up after the black swan
  64. Perfection
  65. Carnage? Compared to What?
  66. Why I’m wrong
  67. Hayek and Duflo
  68. Crack Reporting
  69. A Quiz about ‘Economic’ Values

May 2010

  1. Is psychiatry a science?
  2. “Your Hair Will Save Lives”
  3. Of All the Things to Romanticize, the Worst is War
  4. Does Being *Relatively* Poor Inflict Severe Psychological Damage?
  5. Achievement!
  6. Economically Uninformed Pontificating
  7. BP Deepwater: Some Perspective
  8. Some Links
  9. Yet More Rainbow Stew
  10. Who You Callin’ ‘Shorty’?
  11. Two Links to Two of My Favorite Columnists
  12. On the Private Provision of Public Goods
  13. Beware of Social Engineers
  14. Which Institution is More Enlightened?
  15. Meddler-in-chief
  16. European Housing Prices
  17. Belsky on journalism and a lot of other stuff
  18. Sumner defends neoliberalism
  19. Do ABC Stores Reduce Alcohol-Related Problems?
  20. Capitalism, Slavery, and the State
  21. Some Links
  22. Frau Merkel, Tear Down This Wall!
  23. More Evidence on Laissez-Fairism
  24. Planning! THAT’S the Key to Economic Success!
  25. I Wonder If Prof. Sunstein Routinely Co-Teaches with Richard Epstein
  26. Keep All Hombres Neutered
  27. Economists Without Borders
  28. No Longer Haunted by This Specter
  29. A Note on Collective Decision-Making
  30. Open Letter to Paul Krugman
  31. The nth reason against libertarianism
  32. I talk about the crisis
  33. Drinkin’ that Bubble-Up
  34. Tolerant, Humble, and Peaceful Saviors
  35. Some Historical Perspective, Please
  36. Pragmatism’s Principles
  37. Dr. Congress and Mr. Hydieous
  38. Fatten the Beast
  39. The Knowledge Problem
  40. Two mysteries
  41. Two guys to watch
  42. The fundamental question
  43. Some Links
  44. Milton Friedman, Immigration, and the Welfare State
  45. Or Just Get a Dog
  46. Leamer
  47. Some Immigration Links
  48. Some Trade Links
  49. Fancies are Not Facts
  50. Open Letter to the President of a Teachers’ Union
  51. Cleaned by Capitalism XX
  52. Some Links
  53. The Solution is to Think In Terms of Tradeoffs
  54. Free Goodies from Strangers Have Hidden Dangers
  55. An Open Letter to Ezra Klein
  56. Eatin’ that Rainbow Stew
  57. Who’s Next?
  58. Open Letter to Prof. Barry Popkin
  59. Sitting at the table together
  60. Some Immigration Links
  61. Working together
  62. Stopping the social security ponzi scheme
  63. Los Suns
  64. Is the President a Thoroughly Modern “Progressive” Politician?
  65. Divorce
  66. Talking about Fear the Boom and Bust
  67. Some Immigration Links
  68. Milton Friedman, the Welfare State, and Immigration
  69. Words on Paper about Papers Do Not Alone Make Law
  70. Are Americans Harmed by a Low-Priced Renminbi?
  71. Tiger Woods won’t be honored as husband of the year either
  72. Finding new buffets for the glutton
  73. Taleb on many things
  74. Arizona’s Crime Wave and Immigration
  75. Respect Must Be Earned
  76. Constitutionally Inconsistent
  77. More Rainbow Stew

April 2010

  1. Brownies, Spinach, and Rainbow Stew
  2. An Open Letter to George Will
  3. Thinking Carefully
  4. Keeping Immigrants Out (of Jobs)
  5. Chamber of Horrors
  6. An Entrepreneur and the Minimum-Wage
  7. Welcome to the future
  8. Lou Dobbs on Stossel
  9. American Saturday Night
  10. Simple
  11. Insiders vs. outsiders
  12. All you need to know
  13. Hear no evil
  14. Gambling with Other People’s Money
  15. Ridley
  16. Ritholtz on GS
  17. Redortazizy is the Law of the Land
  18. Wisdom from Richard Epstein
  19. Arizona and Washington
  20. Who paid John Paulson?
  21. The power of mistakes
  22. Supply AND Demand for Labor
  23. Expert Predictions from 40 Years Ago
  24. Lining Up the Arguments
  25. Is the Libertarian Case Against Income Redistribution Flawed?
  26. The power of exchange and specialization
  27. Crisis and Leviathan
  28. The anti-market narrative of the crisis
  29. First, Clean Your Room!
  30. My Son Knows Better Than to Try Such Foolishness at Home
  31. Yet More Deficient Thinking
  32. Our Freedoms Shouldn’t be on a Smorgasbord for Our Leaders’ Choosing
  33. Some Links
  34. Reading and writing
  35. Capitalists and Socialism
  36. Let’s Keep Losing!
  37. A Consequence of Conscription
  38. Who is the parent to the parent?
  39. The Law of Capitalism Vs. the Lawlessness of Politics
  40. Not Quite Obeying the Spirit of the Agreement
  41. Capitalism: The Anti-Pollutant
  42. Some Links
  43. Foer Gives Consumers No Credit
  44. “Son, I Want You To Grow Up to Be a Pipefitter”
  45. Flowering of Civilization
  46. Broken windows in psychology
  47. Government Gives Me Hypertension
  48. Extraordinary photos
  49. Peace and Violence
  50. Mike and I talk about money, motives, gifts, etc
  51. Eye Candy
  52. Stop the Bullies!
  53. Interview with George Selgin
  54. Infectious Statism
  55. Some Links
  56. Culture of Dependence and Culture of Independence
  57. Demsetz on Economic Man
  58. Watching “P”s and “Q”s
  59. Not a Taxing Concept
  60. Party On!
  61. He forgot about the $1.6 trillion deficit
  62. Budget Cutting
  63. Too Big to Fail and the Dodd Bill
  64. Protectionist Blather
  65. News that IS Fit to Print!
  66. Bittersweet
  67. Feed 3
  68. The free free lunch
  69. txting while n motion
  70. Bully in the ‘hood
  71. Some Links
  72. The Roosevelt Mythtique
  73. Growth and Inflation
  74. Ravitch on Education
  75. Some Links
  76. The X-istence of Externalities
  77. The Environmental Kuznets Curve
  78. Pity the Virgins
  79. No-All Party
  80. Spending: Good or Bad?
  81. A Famine of Critical Thinking
  82. Some Links
  83. Commerical Hal
  84. Presidential Interns
  85. Holy Moley!
  86. Some Links
  87. Debating the Merits and Morality of Trade
  88. The Immorality of Protectionism
  89. Just the Facts
  90. Romance and Realism in Politics and Markets
  91. Some Links
  92. Teddy Obama
  93. Open Letter to Lou Dobbs
  94. Dollar Renminbi
  95. Our Leaders
  96. Let’s Improve the Efficiency of News Reporting
  97. A Personal Encounter with an Unfair Trader

March 2010

  1. Spend Your Own Money for a Change
  2. Some Links
  3. Dallas and Washington
  4. Broken Windows Fix Our Understanding
  5. Let there Be Darkness
  6. Human Achievement Hour
  7. Some Ecomomics and History of Civil Forfeiture
  8. (Almost) Free at Last!
  9. Civil Asset Forfeiture
  10. (Non-)Standard History
  11. Some Links
  12. Protectus, O Betterthanus
  13. Don’t Do Unto Me as I Do Unto You
  14. Arrow on Collective Rationality
  15. Bank Runs and the Great Depression
  16. Realpolitik
  17. Klinging to Hope
  18. Some Links
  19. Remarks on Free Trade
  20. What Government Does
  21. Investment Advice
  22. ‘War on Drugs’ = War on Peace
  23. Don’t Call it “Stimulus”
  24. Less now, more later
  25. Other people’s money
  26. Rule of Law vs. Rule of Men
  27. A very expensive tow truck and fence
  28. Help with Fannie and Freddie spreads
  29. Open Letter to Sen. Charles Schumer
  30. How Not to Promote Prosperity
  31. Freakonomics Podcast
  32. Striving
  33. Mont Pelerin Society contest
  34. The essence of the health care legislation
  35. Libelles
  36. Youa Culpa
  37. George Will on Politics
  38. Up In the Air
  39. Consumers, Producers, and Trade
  40. Hey Bill!
  41. Juvenile Offenders: Benefactors of Society
  42. The Violent ‘War on Drugs’
  43. Let’s be honest
  44. A few thoughts on the health care legislation
  45. Peering Into Our Future?
  46. Poof! Problem Solved.
  47. Venting
  48. A Tax to Support
  49. Universal Values
  50. Sweden’s Economy
  51. On Liberty
  52. Insurance Competition
  53. Constitutionality of Obamacare
  54. Open Letter to Jeremy Warner
  55. Jeremy Warner on Populist Paul
  56. This Procedure Won’t Hurt a Bit…. So Bend Over
  57. Markets and Morality
  58. Frauds and Swindlers
  59. Faith-Based Initiative
  60. On Another Columnist
  61. Open Letter to Rep. Mike Michaud
  62. If Relative Wealth is So Ethically Relevant, Then Toyota Should be Applauded
  63. Thoughts on “Industrial Policy”
  64. Everything is Relative
  65. Says it all
  66. Subsidies and Distortions
  67. Keep Those Exports Coming
  68. Hayek in Texas
  69. If Technology Were a Country….
  70. Easterly on Hayek
  71. Poorer Is Richer
  72. Don Boudreaux on public choice
  73. Washington Knows Best
  74. A Campaign that I’d Sign-Up For
  75. No Snow Job on Green Jobs
  76. A Thought Experiment
  77. Pre-existing Nonsense
  78. Corporate Welfare Kings
  79. Walter Williams on the Census
  80. Unreasonable Reason
  81. Measuring stimulus
  82. They Just Don’t Work in Practice
  83. Stimulus Working? More Evidence That It’s Not
  84. The Neo Con
  85. CBO estimates
  86. An Open Letter to President Obama
  87. Insidious
  88. Shocking
  89. Not Terribly Original of Me, but It Must be Pointed Out to the Gray Lady
  90. Trade and Worker Productivity
  91. Is the Productivity of American Workers Overstated?
  92. The jobs of yesteryear
  93. An Open Letter to Peter Orszag and Nancy-Ann DeParle
  94. I’m Not Among the Faithful
  95. Are We Living In Western Civilization?
  96. Steyn nails it
  97. MA in economics fellowship
  98. Low Prices?! Save Us!
  99. Lesson plan for Fear the Boom and Bust?
  100. Maybe They’re Better Now at Estimating….
  101. Good luck, Ben!
  102. Mencken on Merchants of Idiotic Ideas
  103. Trade, Manufacturing, Jobs, National Security, and Recessions
  104. The Riskiness of Putting Trust in the Best and the Brightest
  105. Green Spin, Hypocrisy, and Rent-Seeking
  106. A total waste of time
  107. How Noble was this Experiment?
  108. Property Rights and Safety
  109. Selgin on the Fed
  110. A Swipe at Common Sense
  111. A Second Letter to the Hon. Gene Taylor
  112. Tragedies Play Out According to Their Internal Logic
  113. Prosperity and Safety
  114. Hayek on management and war
  115. Annotated version of Fear the Boom and Bust
  116. Ritholtz on bailouts
  117. He Disobeyed Authorities

February 2010

  1. Open Letter to Two NPR Reporters
  2. Pretense of Knowledge
  3. Maybe Even Give Such Authority to Each Congressional District!
  4. Will to Power
  5. Populism and Jurisdictional Competition
  6. Let’s Hope that Joe Biden’s Prayers are Answered…. Ooops, Too Late
  7. Desires Inchoate?
  8. Retirees Living Longer
  9. At Least One Industry is Doing Alright
  10. Kumbaya
  11. Fools on the Hill
  12. We Won’t Run Out of Oil
  13. Cato University
  14. My Case Against the Stimulus
  15. Frankly Lazy Fare
  16. Into the Maze
  17. Beware of Recreating Bubblicious Patterns of Employment and Resource Use
  18. To Badly Go
  19. Psychiatry isn’t a science either
  20. Theft as Economic Policy
  21. Crowding out
  22. Sure Enough
  23. No Longer Slaves to Petty 18th-century Notions of Individual Rights
  24. Scrub these ‘Laws’
  25. Carry On
  26. What we say vs. do vs. believe
  27. Ungovernable
  28. Thinking carefully about numbers
  29. DeLong update
  30. Finally, Brad DeLong calls me a liar
  31. Manipulating Language
  32. Protectionism Makes People Poorer. Period.
  33. Same Animal, Only Bigger
  34. Fear the Boom and Bust with Estonian subtitles
  35. Glenn Reynolds interview
  36. The Great Stimulus Hoax
  37. Renminbi ad absurdum
  38. CSPAN video
  39. For a sixth grader
  40. We’re Not Running Out Of – Or Even Low On – Sources of ‘Nonrenewable’ Energy
  41. Moon Shadows
  42. Power of Ideas
  43. He Should Read James Madison
  44. If you’re interested
  45. Julian Simon Would Not Be Surprised
  46. I guess I’m a droid
  47. A Window Into Politics
  48. Local Communities and Public Goods
  49. Grim Tales
  50. Temperature’s Rising
  51. Liquidity Trap?
  52. Local Nonsense
  53. Woe Is Us, Episode 14,688
  54. Adam Smith and BookTV
  55. Edmund Phelps’s Austrian Roots
  56. Time Out
  57. U.S. Unemployment Compared to European Unemployment
  58. Landsburg on Child Labor
  59. What’s the Goal?
  60. Who’s to Blame?
  61. How About Some Quality Control
  62. Milton Friedman
  63. Driving Me to Drink
  64. Did they expect to be bailed out
  65. Caldwell on Hayek
  66. Sacks on trade
  67. THE Principal Principle
  68. Nick Gillespie Nails It
  69. Revolution in Iran imminent (maybe)
  70. The silver lining?
  71. Dear Reader
  72. Swedish Lyrics to Fear the Boom and Bust
  73. Eating More
  74. Eating more while getting thinner
  75. Brutes in Suits
  76. “Picking Winners” by Making the Rest of Us Losers
  77. Speaking Words of Wisdom
  78. Who Speaks for ‘The People’?
  79. An Empirical Study of the Effects of Proposition 13
  80. Fear the Boom and Bust with Italian subtitles
  81. Wisdom from Jay Cost
  82. Fear the Boom and Bust with French Subtitles
  83. My talk on trade
  84. George Will on Paul Ryan’s Plan
  85. Interview with Tom Palmer
  86. German lyrics of Fear the Boom and Bust
  87. GEAUX SAINTS!
  88. She Chose
  89. Perhaps He Gave Her a Free T-Shirt
  90. Illiberal “Liberals”
  91. I Can Hurt Myself More Than You Can Hurt Yourself!
  92. Central Planning Can’t Keep Up – or Ketchup
  93. Milton Friedman’s Solid Steel Argument for Free Trade
  94. Element-ary Economics
  95. You DO Have to Be an ‘Orthodox Keynesian’ to Accept Reich’s Argument
  96. French subtitles?
  97. The Acid that is Economics
  98. ….and Purse-Snatchers Steal
  99. Dogs Bark
  100. Musing on Amusing
  101. Fear the Boom and Bust with Spanish Subtitles
  102. Can I at Least Opt Out?
  103. Politician: (n) a shameless scoundrel
  104. A Multiple-Choice Quiz
  105. Trade, Taxes, Foreign Affiliates, & Jobs
  106. I’m not one either, but…
  107. Brad DeLong on job creation
  108. The pygmy shrinks
  109. Keynes Hayek rap video in Polish
  110. Frank on Fannie and Freddie
  111. Obscene
  112. Larry White on Hayek
  113. Adults Are Responsible
  114. Facts are Facts
  115. Any Principle Here?
  116. But What Will It Do to Demand for New Automobiles???
  117. Dan Klein’s Open Letter on Adam Smith to Anand Giridharadas
  118. Zinnconsistent

January 2010

  1. Keynes/Hayek rap video w/Finnish subtitles
  2. Don’t Throw Me Into that Briar Patch!
  3. Who Killed Disco?
  4. Keynes/Hayek rap video with Chinese subtitles
  5. Rap Video Update
  6. Easy for Editorial Writers in the U.S. to Say
  7. A Century Is Longer than 20 Years
  8. Barney Frank’s Fantasy World
  9. Fear the Boom and Bust VIDEO with Japanese subtitles
  10. Spanish Lyrics for Fear the Boom and Bust
  11. The state of the labor market
  12. Fear the Boom and Bust (in Chinese)
  13. Who’s Greedy?
  14. Twittering on SOTU
  15. Rap video in the classroom
  16. Can You Imagine the Outcry?
  17. Hayeku on the state of the union
  18. Prosperity and Wrecking Balls
  19. Keynes and Hayek
  20. Best Line I’ve Heard Today
  21. Ke$ha and Keynes at Planet Money
  22. Employment Trends
  23. Get the song and the lyrics
  24. Keynes vs. Hayek rap video
  25. All Things Considered time change
  26. Knee-Jerk, Free-Market America
  27. Mystery men and woman
  28. Debt is Debt
  29. Those Notorious Right-Wing Organizations….
  30. Seems As Though Buchanan and Tullock Might Be Correct After All
  31. Actively Defend the Constitution
  32. On Citizens United
  33. The Reality of Politics
  34. He is We?
  35. Corporations and Rights
  36. Don’t know where to start
  37. Fixing it later
  38. Congress Shall Make No Law….
  39. You can’t take it with you
  40. True Liberals
  41. What we have here is a failure to communicate
  42. Contemporary “Liberalism” is the Opposite of True Liberalism
  43. Questions for the Speaker
  44. Mindset
  45. Regulating Tax-Preparers
  46. Political incentives
  47. The Case for Privatizing Airport Security
  48. O Canada
  49. Defending Obama
  50. The Downfall Began with the Invention of the Wheel….
  51. Maybe the dogs don’t like it
  52. Unleashing and Feeding the Predators
  53. With Friends Like Corsi….
  54. Are Markets to Blame?
  55. Fuzzy Unemployment Math
  56. Exposing Tortured Logic
  57. Mary O’Grady on Haiti
  58. Not An Enumerated Power
  59. Higher Education Starved for Tax Dollars?
  60. This is Frightening, and Not only at the Margarine
  61. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble
  62. Avalanching Down the Slope
  63. And the U.S. Even Bore the Enforcement Costs!
  64. A bad week for PK
  65. Are Europeans as Wealthy as Americans?
  66. Natural Disasters and Economic Development: Some Data
  67. Legal Cartel
  68. Brooks on the Haiti Earthquake
  69. A Tale of Two Quakes
  70. On the Constitutionality of Mandated Health Insurance
  71. People At Their Best
  72. Ms. Ashworth’s Bizarre Argument
  73. Two Thumbs Up!
  74. Clunker Health-Care
  75. Two Excellent Posts by Dan Ikenson
  76. Umm…. Bad Idea
  77. Power and politics at the Fed
  78. Stossel and Atlas Shrugging
  79. Bring Back Bubba
  80. Why such extreme leverage?
  81. Delusion of Protectionism
  82. The True Cheats
  83. PERC’s Enviropreneur Institute
  84. Capital requirements info, please
  85. On the Private Provision of Public Goods
  86. Reason(ing) with the TSA
  87. Seen and Unseen
  88. Selgin-Turner Vs. Boldrin-Levine
  89. The Safest Way
  90. German Economic Myths
  91. On Low-Priced Currencies
  92. On Crime and Consumer Credit
  93. A Quiz for Persons Who Believe That Legislation Can Keep Big Money Away from the Politics of Big Government
  94. Rap video feedback
  95. Nations Don’t Trade. People Trade.
  96. Are you confident about GM’s future?
  97. The mysterious weight gain
  98. Mark Perry Adds Honesty to News Reports
  99. Krugman Moves Closer to Protectionism
  100. Rustici on Smoot Hawley
  101. Questions, please

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