2011

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December 2011

1. 31 DecIt’s a Fact that the Facts of the Social Sciences are Known Only Through Theories
2. 31 DecQuotation of the Day…
3. 31 DecNick Rowe on the Debt Burden
4. 30 DecResponse to “Paul Krugman”
5. 30 DecOpen Letter to Paul Krugman
6. 30 DecKeynes was right?
7. 30 DecFannie and Freddie and the crisis
8. 30 DecQuotation of the Day…
9. 29 DecLessons from Dharavi
10. 29 DecQuotation of the Day…
11. 29 DecLarry Ribstein, RIP
12. 29 DecSupporting GMU Economics (Again, for those of you who might have missed the first posting)
13. 28 DecBourgeois Dignity
14. 28 DecQuotation of the Day…
15. 27 DecTabarrok on innovation
16. 27 DecLet’s Take the ‘Con’ Out of Neocons
17. 27 DecQuotation of the Day…
18. 27 DecSome Links
19. 27 DecFarm Foolishness
20. 26 DecQuotation of the Day…
21. 25 DecQuotation of the Day…
22. 24 DecQuotation of the Day…
23. 23 DecTonel Vision
24. 23 DecQuotation of the Day…
25. 23 DecSupporting GMU Economics
26. 22 DecJohn Papola and Macro Santa
27. 22 DecQuotation of the Day…
28. 21 DecKlein on the invisible hand
29. 21 DecAn Undeniable Asymmetry
30. 21 DecNorth Korea: A Monument to the Pathosis of Protectionism
31. 21 DecQuotation of the Day…
32. 20 DecMore On Regime Uncertainty
33. 20 DecA Big Disconnect
34. 20 DecQuotation of the Day…
35. 19 DecA Huge Negative Externality
36. 19 DecQuotation of the Day…
37. 18 DecChristopher Hitchens
38. 18 DecComments to be Closed
39. 18 DecQuotation of the Day…
40. 18 DecOccupy Cluelessness
41. 18 DecStrunk and White channel Keynes and Hayek
42. 17 DecHere the Evidence Is Clear
43. 17 DecQuotation of the Day…
44. 16 DecSome Links
45. 16 DecQuotation of the Day…
46. 16 DecHayek on Scientistic Hubris
47. 15 DecSumner on Stiglitz
48. 15 DecQuotation of the Day…
49. 14 DecA Quick Response to Some Conditional Proponents of the War on “Drugs”
50. 14 DecEnd the War On People Who Choose to Use Prohibited Drugs
51. 14 DecQuotation of the Day…
52. 14 DecLehman
53. 13 DecOpen Letter to Rev. Al Sharpton
54. 13 DecA taxonomy of errors
55. 13 DecMan bites dog
56. 13 DecQuotation of the Day…
57. 13 DecSome Links
58. 13 DecHayek’s Gift
59. 12 DecTwo supply and demand rap videos
60. 12 DecObama’s Math Works Only in BizzaroEcon World
61. 12 DecQuotations of the Day…
62. 11 DecBusiness-school Argot is No Substitute for Critical Thinking
63. 11 DecQuotation of the Day…
64. 10 DecSome Links
65. 10 DecPutting Dwight’s Quotation to More Use
66. 10 DecQuotation of the Day…
67. 9 DecKeynes, Friedman, and Higgs
68. 9 DecIf the Man-in-the-(Occupied)-Street Narrative is Correct…
69. 9 DecQuotation of the Day…
70. 8 DecReason #1 why Newt Gingrich is a little bit frightening
71. 8 DecTeddy Unbearable
72. 8 DecQuotation of the Day…
73. 8 DecSo, How’s That Hurricane Workin’ Out for You?; Or, Watch Out, Papola & Roberts!
74. 7 DecMore on Hayek as Macroeconomist
75. 7 DecSome Links
76. 7 DecQuotation of the Day…
77. 7 DecBill Keller needs to get out more
78. 7 DecWhat’s worse than an apocalypse?
79. 6 DecF.A. Hayek, economist
80. 6 DecBen and his friends
81. 5 DecSome Economics of Predatory Pricing
82. 5 DecA primer on the European mess from Tyler Cowen
83. 4 DecSumner on UI
84. 4 DecQuotation of the Day…
85. 3 DecApplause for John D. Rockefeller
86. 3 DecQuotation of the Day…
87. 3 DecThe Science of Public Choice Reveals that Government is Motivated by Politics and Not by Science
88. 2 DecQuotation of the Day…
89. 1 DecSome Links
90. 1 DecWhat’s Really Happening
91. 1 DecQuotation of the Day…

November 2011

1. 30 NovSix ideas
2. 30 NovWhere is Sheila Bair?
3. 30 NovThe obesity “epidemic”
4. 30 NovYes, we have no bananas
5. 30 NovDo as I say not as I do
6. 30 NovEven less precise
7. 30 NovClimate vs. Weather
8. 30 NovHappy 20th Birthday, IJ!
9. 30 NovThe Path to Widespread Prosperity is Never Paved With Other People’s Money
10. 30 NovQuotation of the Day…
11. 30 NovGreat summary
12. 30 NovImportant Perspective on Imports
13. 29 NovAnother Instance of Political-Market Failure
14. 29 NovMilton Friedman Must Have Been Crazy
15. 29 NovQuotation of the Day…
16. 29 NovThe Fed is corrupt
17. 29 NovNudging us to death
18. 29 NovOn WGN
19. 28 NovCrazy About the Fed
20. 28 NovQuotation of the Day…
21. 28 NovSome Links
22. 28 NovHiggs’s Tocqueville Award Acceptance Speech
23. 28 Nov‘National Dialog’ and Other Howlers
24. 27 NovNourishing Bourgeois Culture
25. 27 NovQuotation of the Day…
26. 26 NovQuotation of the Day…
27. 26 NovConfusing the Satisfaction of Some Consumers’ Preferences for Market Failure
28. 25 NovThe Unholiest of Wars
29. 25 NovQuotation of the Day…
30. 24 NovMilton Friedman on Wealth Redistribution
31. 24 NovQuotation of the Day…
32. 23 NovMore on Middle-Class Stagnation
33. 23 NovQuotation of the Day…
34. 22 NovSome Links
35. 22 NovKennedy, Confirmation Bias, and a Cautionary Tale
36. 22 NovQuotation of the Day…
37. 21 NovFree the Market. Save Lives.
38. 21 NovThe GOP horse race
39. 21 NovYour body and Keynesianism
40. 21 NovQuotation of the Day…
41. 20 NovGive the Abusive Force More Scope to Abuse (But Hope that Next Time It Will be Unabusive)
42. 20 NovQuotation of the Day…
43. 20 NovMoral hazard blast from the past
44. 20 NovThe cause of the crisis (and how to prevent the next one)
45. 20 NovGreenspan, interventionist
46. 19 NovFrank’n’Keynes
47. 19 NovQuotation of the Day…
48. 18 NovQuotation of the Day…
49. 18 NovSniffing Out Rent-Seekers
50. 17 NovBryan Caplan and the Zero-Marginal-Productivity Hypothesis
51. 17 NovQuotation of the Day…
52. 17 NovVulgar Keynesianism, Case #40,988,565,792
53. 17 NovAn Asymmetry
54. 16 NovCast Your Vote: Subsidies Advisable or Not?
55. 16 NovQuotation of the Day…
56. 16 NovLaw for Economics Professors, and Economics for Law Professors
57. 16 NovKeynes and Consumption
58. 16 NovI Invite Anyone Who Wishes to Inflict Upon Me Such “Diminishment”
59. 15 NovNot-from-the-Onion Quotation of the Day…
60. 15 NovQuotation of the Day…
61. 15 NovLiberalism
62. 14 NovWherein Lies Trade’s Benefits
63. 14 NovQuotation of the Day…
64. 14 NovHume on Rousseau
65. 13 NovGovernment as venture capitalist
66. 13 NovCronyism in Montgomery County
67. 13 NovVulgarnomics
68. 12 NovQuotation of the Day…
69. 12 NovDown with Paper-Buggism!
70. 12 NovQuotation of the Day…
71. 11 NovLiberals, Conservatives, and ideology
72. 11 NovMore Luddism
73. 10 NovSpontaneous Order
74. 10 NovConfirmation Bias, Perhaps?
75. 10 NovPaul Simon on confirmation bias
76. 10 NovQuotation of the Day…
77. 10 NovWhy Am I a Libertarian?
78. 9 NovQuotation of the Day…
79. 9 NovDan Klein on Confirmation Bias and Jumping to Conclusions
80. 9 NovWag More, Bark Less
81. 8 NovSome Links
82. 8 NovQuotation of the Day…
83. 8 NovFrom the ‘I Wish I’d Have Thought of That’ File
84. 8 NovAs Russ Says, There’s No Such Thing as a Kosher Ham Sandwich
85. 7 NovWhat you study matters
86. 7 NovAn interview on the rap videos
87. 7 NovWhat Jelly Bellies are good for
88. 7 NovThe top 1% on EconTalk
89. 7 NovQuotation of the Day…
90. 6 NovGoldman Sachs’s lobbying efforts
91. 6 NovA fascinating book
92. 6 NovIowans Grow Cars in Cornfields
93. 6 NovLots of Great Reading Here
94. 6 NovQuotation of the Day…
95. 5 NovA Few Links
96. 5 NovWonder If He’s Ever Read David Hume
97. 5 NovQuotation of the Day…
98. 4 NovQuotation of the Day…
99. 4 Nov57.4 Percent of 1996’s Privileged 1% Are Now Among the Beleaguered 99%
100. 4 NovSome Links
101. 3 NovNGDP Targeting
102. 3 NovRahn on Niskanen
103. 3 NovQuotation of the Day…
104. 3 NovNaderomics
105. 2 NovQuotation of the Day…
106. 2 NovBreaking news: creditors lose money in MF Global collapse!
107. 2 NovWell Now, Why Would They Sell to Us?
108. 1 NovMore on crumbling infrastructure
109. 1 NovFiction Made in America
110. 1 NovQuotation of the Day…
111. 1 NovA sister’s eulogy

October 2011

1. 31 OctKrugman and ideology once more
2. 31 OctKrugman, Keynes, and war
3. 31 OctQuotation of the Day…
4. 31 OctDoesn’t Appear that Income “Inequality” is On the Rise
5. 31 OctQuotation of the Day…
6. 30 Oct“On Your Own”
7. 29 OctDrunk With Keynesian Prejudices
8. 29 OctQuotation of the Day…
9. 28 OctOn the CBO’s Income-Differences Report
10. 28 OctAggregate Demand–II
11. 28 OctQuotation of the Day…
12. 28 OctRichard Epstein on Income Differences
13. 27 OctMy challenge to Paul Krugman
14. 27 OctKeynes’s “Screwball Idea”
15. 27 OctKristof on crony capitalism
16. 27 OctI don’t understand aggregate demand
17. 27 OctQuotation of the Day…
18. 27 OctSome Links
19. 26 OctMark Perry on Income Differences
20. 26 OctQuotation of the Day…
21. 26 OctVulgar Keynesianism on Steroids
22. 25 OctNot Motivated by Goodwill
23. 25 OctHaldane on the evolution of banking
24. 25 OctWisdom from Arnold
25. 25 OctQuotation of the Day…
26. 25 OctZombienomics
27. 24 OctMy take on Occupy Wall Street
28. 24 OctQuotation of the Day…
29. 24 OctAnother Note on Commenting
30. 23 OctHorwitz on the Financial Crisis and Recession
31. 23 OctQuotation of the Day…
32. 23 OctIs a Large Proportion of American Adults Stuck in Poverty-Level Jobs?
33. 22 OctPalmer on Protestors
34. 22 OctQuotation of the Day…
35. 22 OctMachlup on Balance-of-Trade Numbers
36. 21 OctAdam Smith Kahneman
37. 21 OctGlobal Cooperation
38. 21 OctQuotation of the Day…
39. 20 OctQuotation of the Day…
40. 20 OctEconomic Change that Happens to Happen Across Political Borders
41. 20 OctScrisoare deschisă către Paul Krugman
42. 19 OctA Snippet on Alleged Middle-Class Stagnation
43. 19 OctQuotation of the Day…
44. 19 Octwww.economicfreedom.org…
45. 18 OctMaking the world a better place
46. 18 OctWhitehead on truth-seeking and specialization
47. 18 OctMore on ideology
48. 18 OctWapshott on Keynes and Hayek
49. 18 OctPeace and Free Trade
50. 18 OctQuotation of the Day…
51. 18 OctSome Links
52. 17 OctQuotation of the Day…
53. 16 OctNew Musical Vistas for Hayek and Keynes
54. 16 OctDamn All this Progress!
55. 16 OctQuotation of the Day…
56. 15 OctCommon Senselessness
57. 15 OctNation(al) Keynes
58. 15 OctQuotation of the Day…
59. 15 OctCorporate Greed Well and Truly Exposed
60. 14 OctDamn Those Stubborn American Consumers!
61. 14 OctQuotation of the Day…
62. 13 OctShould Uncle Sam Punish Americans For Taking Advantage of Good Deals Made Better by Beijing?
63. 13 OctQuotation of the Day…
64. 13 OctOpen Letter to Lori Wallach
65. 12 OctTruth-seeking and ideology
66. 12 OctMacroeconomic storytelling
67. 12 OctQuotation of the Day…
68. 12 Oct“Greed” – Being Ever-Present – Explains Nothing
69. 12 OctRegulation of comments
70. 12 OctThe evidence for Keynesian economics
71. 12 OctMore on the Great Stagnation
72. 12 OctCome the Revolution…
73. 11 OctMy thoughts on commenting
74. 11 OctUtterly Deficient Analysis
75. 11 OctQuotation of the Day…
76. 10 OctA Note on Commenting
77. 10 OctOmigosh! Foreigners Are Investing More In America!
78. 10 OctQuotation of the Day…
79. 9 OctPoor Sales
80. 9 OctSome Links
81. 9 OctQuotation of the Day…
82. 8 OctOpen Letter to Robert Samuelson
83. 8 OctQuotations of the Day…
84. 7 OctIncomes are Created, Not “Distributed”
85. 7 OctThe Top 1%
86. 7 OctQuotation of the Day…
87. 6 OctBrilliance from George Will
88. 6 OctHow Should Government A Respond When Government B Adopts Policies that Damage the Economy of B?
89. 6 OctTrickle Down
90. 6 OctSome of the super-rich
91. 6 OctWorth more than a thousand words
92. 6 OctThank you, Steve
93. 5 OctAnother Open Letter to Peter Morici
94. 5 OctQuotation of the Day…
95. 5 OctTake Control of Your Life
96. 5 OctDon’t Bank on It
97. 5 OctThe Great Stagnation in the UK
98. 5 OctThe Willie Sutton theory of fundraising
99. 4 OctChristie
100. 4 OctThe Presumptions of Ptolemaic Economics Die Hard, Part II
101. 3 OctThe Presumptions of Ptolemaic Economics Die Hard
102. 3 OctThe Great Stagnation?
103. 3 OctLost
104. 3 OctQuotation of the Day…
105. 3 OctIs the middle class making economic progress?
106. 3 OctWho Ignores Significant Scientific Advances?
107. 3 OctQuotation of the Day…
108. 2 OctOpen Letter to Michele Bachmann
109. 2 OctAlso On My Reading List…
110. 2 OctProudly Dismal
111. 1 OctQuotation of the Day…
112. 1 OctThe Better You Understand Economics, the More You Realize that Money Isn’t All that Matters
113. 1 OctQuotation of the Day…

September 2011

1. 30 SepSome Links
2. 30 SepThe ‘Cloud’ Is as Old as Interfamily Trade
3. 30 SepPtolemaic Economics
4. 29 SepStill UnWarrented
5. 29 SepOf Course, We’re Different, Right? Right??
6. 29 SepQuotation of the Day…
7. 29 SepUnWarrented
8. 29 SepScholarship Opportunity for the Study of Economics
9. 28 SepIs Basel III Anti-American?
10. 28 SepSolyndra coverage
11. 28 SepQuotation of the Day…
12. 28 SepThe Statist Mind
13. 27 SepDamn Consumers are Changing Too Fast the Ways They Spend Their Own Money
14. 27 SepA Worthy Tribute
15. 27 SepQuotation of the Day…
16. 27 SepSachs on Stimulus
17. 26 SepQuotation of the Day…
18. 25 SepA Quick Question
19. 25 SepDan Klein on Moneyball
20. 25 SepSome Links
21. 25 SepQuotation of the Day…
22. 24 SepScarcity Isn’t Abundance
23. 24 SepQuotation of the Day…
24. 23 SepArtificial Scarcities Are Not Wealth
25. 23 SepAnd What are “Proper Wages”?
26. 23 SepUnsubscribing, Part II
27. 23 SepUnsubscribing
28. 23 SepSome Links
29. 23 SepQuotation of the Day…
30. 22 SepWhose MONEY Is It, Anyway?
31. 22 SepQuotation of the Day…
32. 22 SepMatt Ridley to Deliver the Annual Hayek Lecture
33. 21 SepGreatly Stagnating?
34. 21 SepSome Links from Cato@Liberty
35. 21 SepThe Nature of the Beast
36. 21 SepQuotation of the Day…
37. 21 SepTaxes and inequality
38. 21 SepAgain, That Curious Task
39. 21 SepTaxes, Spending, and the President’s plan
40. 20 SepDigging into the Data
41. 20 SepHow Markets Use Knowledge
42. 20 SepNew Adventures in Treating Symptoms
43. 20 SepMy challenge to Tyler
44. 20 SepQuotation of the Day…
45. 20 SepBirthday thoughts
46. 19 SepReview of Doug Irwin’s Peddling Protectionism
47. 19 SepSome Links
48. 19 SepDid the stimulus money hire the unemployed?
49. 19 SepQuotation of the Day…
50. 18 SepDoes the presidential election of 2012 matter?
51. 18 SepQuotation of the Day…
52. 17 SepThomas Sowell on the Great Depression
53. 17 SepSome Links
54. 17 SepBryan Caplan on Law
55. 17 SepQuotation of the Day…
56. 16 SepTwo Sides to Those Political ‘Transactions’
57. 16 SepStupid in America
58. 16 SepGo Ford
59. 16 SepQuotation of the Day…
60. 16 SepThe State Isn’t Us
61. 16 SepNot from the Onion
62. 15 SepQuotation of the Day…
63. 15 SepGreen dog bites man
64. 15 SepWho cares? It’s stimulus!
65. 15 SepJim Crow 2.0
66. 15 Sep2nd Quotation of the Day…
67. 14 SepThe Taking Tree
68. 14 SepSome Links
69. 14 SepAre Property Rights Usefully Regarded as Sticks in a Bundle of Rights?
70. 14 SepOpen Letter to a Department of Energy Official
71. 14 SepQuotation of the Day…
72. 14 SepTwo nice reviews
73. 14 SepDoes a Liquidity Trap Really Turn Economic Laws Topsy-Turvy?
74. 13 SepMore scientism from the defenders of stimulus
75. 13 SepQuotation of the Day…
76. 13 SepCrony Capitalism 101
77. 13 SepWhat to Say?
78. 12 SepQuotation of the Day…
79. 12 SepSome Links
80. 12 SepFurther Thoughts on Whether or Not Social Security is Ponzi Scheme
81. 12 SepFrank talk with Frank
82. 12 SepIs Social Security a Ponzi Scheme?
83. 11 SepQuotation of the Day…
84. 11 SepQuestions About Imports
85. 11 SepWho’s Benighted?
86. 10 SepQuotation of the Day…
87. 10 SepHarry Johnson On Keynes
88. 10 SepSome Links
89. 9 SepQuotation of the Day…
90. 9 SepOffice of the Repealer
91. 9 SepThe favorite slogan of the King of the Broken Windows
92. 9 SepEverything that’s wrong with macroeconomics
93. 8 SepIs Scarcity On Hold?
94. 8 SepQuotation of the Day…
95. 8 SepThe Source of the Problem Ain’t Inadequate Aggregate Demand
96. 8 SepUn-‘Loch’-ing Liberty
97. 8 SepIt’s this Myth that Should be Crumbling
98. 7 SepOpen Letter to a Believer in Miracles
99. 7 SepIgnorance or Arrogance That’s Par for the Course
100. 7 SepGS invests in protection
101. 7 SepMoney isn’t everything
102. 7 SepQuotation of the Day…
103. 7 SepQuotation of the Day…
104. 6 SepLitmus test
105. 6 SepThe Curious Task
106. 6 SepFighting that Well-Known Irrational Prejudice Against Drunkards
107. 6 SepBreaking windows
108. 6 SepMy druthers
109. 6 SepOpen Letter to U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez
110. 6 SepShovel Ready
111. 5 SepBob Higgs Again on Regime Uncertainty
112. 5 SepWhat Did Keynes Explain?
113. 5 SepThe President’s Speech
114. 5 SepCrumbling
115. 5 SepI agree with Joe Stiglitz
116. 5 SepQuotation of the Day…
117. 5 SepFirst thing we do…
118. 4 SepQuotation of the Day…
119. 3 SepMaybe Next Time
120. 3 SepGary Becker Asks a Penetrating Question
121. 3 SepQuotation of the Day…
122. 3 SepLandsburg, Krugman, and the Equimariginal Principle: The Recap
123. 3 SepPublic Principles of Public Debt
124. 2 SepQuotation of the Day…
125. 2 SepTrouble-Maker on the Charles?
126. 2 SepQuotation of the Day…
127. 1 SepI’m from the federal family and I’m here to help you
128. 1 SepBias

August 2011

1. 31 AugDestruction Is Creation – Not
2. 31 AugSome Links
3. 31 AugQuotation of the Day…
4. 31 AugKnow Your Premises
5. 30 AugThe Microeconomics of the Broken Window Fallacy
6. 30 AugTeachers
7. 30 AugMagic 2
8. 30 AugFinding ways to raise costs and make us poorer
9. 30 AugQuotation of the Day…
10. 29 AugOpen Letter to Peter Morici
11. 29 AugHelp design the EconStories t-shirts
12. 28 AugQuotation of the Day…
13. 26 AugBill Breit
14. 26 AugWal-Mart, You ARE Doin’ a Heckuva Job!
15. 26 AugQuotation of the Day…
16. 26 AugSome Links
17. 25 AugQuotation of the Day…
18. 25 AugOpen Letter to a Correspondent
19. 25 AugThank you, Steve
20. 25 AugNot a Novel Question, but One Worth Asking Again and Again
21. 24 AugQuotation of the Day…
22. 24 AugVoltaire on Earthquake Destruction
23. 24 AugDiane Rehm Show
24. 24 AugKrugman Stimulus
25. 24 AugQuotation of the Day…
26. 23 Aug5.8 magnitude earthquake hits DC
27. 23 AugLike Listening to a ‘Physician’ Drone On About the Curative Properties of Blood-letting
28. 23 AugSo Blatantly Harmful That Even the Grey Lady Understands
29. 23 AugSharing the pain
30. 23 AugMusical chairs
31. 22 AugWhat works and what doesn’t
32. 22 AugSnackonomics
33. 22 AugIn Praise of Market Entrepreneurs
34. 22 AugQuotation of the Day…
35. 21 AugPhenomenal Service
36. 21 AugEconomic Ignorance
37. 21 AugBaby You Can Drive My Car
38. 21 AugNimble government, job creating machine
39. 21 AugSpending other people’s money on other people
40. 21 AugDrinking the Austrian Kool-Aid
41. 21 AugQuotation of the Day…
42. 21 AugKeynesian Prejudices
43. 20 AugSelgin vs. Skidelsky, Gloves Off
44. 20 AugQuotation of the Day…
45. 20 AugPerhaps the Queen Should Knight the U.K. Rioters
46. 19 AugQuotation of the Day…
47. 19 AugSex Is Necessary to Keep the Species Alive; Should We Therefore Subsidize Sex?
48. 19 AugSelgin on Mellon, Harding, and Hoover
49. 19 AugIt’s What They Do
50. 18 AugFreedom for Surrogates
51. 18 AugYet One More Reason Why I Refuse to Vote
52. 18 AugSome Links
53. 18 AugQuotation of the Day…
54. 17 AugQuotation of the Day…
55. 17 AugOpen Letter to Mitt Romney
56. 17 AugAfter Posting Here, I’ll Buy Lunch and a Cup of Coffee from One of My Many Opponents
57. 17 AugKeynes, Krugman, and Texas
58. 16 AugQuotation of the Day…
59. 15 AugReventing
60. 14 AugWhy, Even Some Automakers Support it!
61. 13 AugLagniappe
62. 13 AugA Heinous Anniversary
63. 12 AugHow Will Uncle Sam Survive?
64. 12 AugKeynes-Hayek t-shirt contest!
65. 11 AugJust Nonsense
66. 11 AugChoice is Diktat; Diktat is Choice
67. 11 AugBut They’re Senators….
68. 10 AugA Tragi-Comedy
69. 10 Aug‘Course, A Simpleton Such as Myself Likely Misses The Significant Differences
70. 8 AugQuotations of the Day…
71. 8 AugSatz on markets
72. 8 AugEnough Already
73. 7 AugQuotation of the Day…
74. 7 AugBut the President and Congress MEANT Well
75. 6 AugQuotation of the Day…
76. 5 AugF.A. Selgin vs. J.M. Skidelsky
77. 5 AugQuotation of the Day…
78. 4 AugReich video
79. 4 AugA Keynesian Theory of Aging
80. 4 AugHoover and DeLong
81. 3 AugQuotation of the Day…
82. 3 AugSummerstime
83. 3 AugFabulous picture, but…
84. 3 AugBob Higgs on Spirits, Fairies, Keynes, and Krugman
85. 3 AugKling on metaphors
86. 3 AugAnother Open Letter to an Aggressive E-Mail Correspondent
87. 3 AugIt Was 30 Years Ago Today….
88. 3 AugHayek (Selgin & Co.) vs. Keynes (Skidelsky & Co.) Broadcast Today!
89. 3 AugShame on you, Joe Nocera
90. 2 AugThe Fairies Have It
91. 2 AugGoldberg on media bias
92. 2 AugQuotation of the Day…
93. 2 AugProf. Gitlin Likely Also Believes that Higher Tariffs Will Never Significantly Reduce Imports
94. 2 AugCapitalism = Innovationism
95. 1 AugBloody Keynesians
96. 1 AugThe power of the polemical
97. 1 AugSome F.D.A. Links
98. 1 AugThe aftermath
99. 1 AugA Disgraceful Instance of Orwellian Newspeak
100. 1 AugSome Links

July 2011

1. 31 JulAnd What Was It that Milton Friedman Said about Business People and the Free Market?
2. 31 JulHappy 99th Birthday, Milton Friedman
3. 30 JulQuotation of the Day…
4. 30 JulThe Angels Made Me Do It
5. 29 JulDoug Irwin on 19th-century Tariffs
6. 29 JulSome Links
7. 29 JulDefault?
8. 29 JulQuotation of the Day…
9. 29 JulComplex Society and Avoiding Simplistic Notions
10. 28 JulMurray Was No Milton
11. 28 JulDamn those Innovators!
12. 27 JulSpecialization and Trade
13. 26 JulPaying college athletes
14. 26 JulGood luck to Team Hayek
15. 25 JulStagnating Middle-Class?
16. 25 JulBook Facts
17. 25 JulEverything You Always Wanted to Know About the Debt Ceiling
18. 25 JulQuotation of the Day…
19. 23 JulQuotation of the Day…
20. 22 JulBryan Caplan on reason.tv
21. 22 JulThe World is UNDERpopulated
22. 22 JulQuotation of the Day…
23. 22 Jul1,000,000 views and counting
24. 22 JulNick Gillespie interviews Vernon Smith
25. 21 JulOn the Somali Famine
26. 21 JulSome Links
27. 20 JulQuotation of the Day…
28. 20 JulDuplicity of the Day…
29. 20 JulConsumers Harmed by Free Trade?
30. 20 JulMcCelery
31. 19 JulThe Scourge of Economic Nationalism, Again
32. 19 JulN f l
33. 18 JulQuotation of the Day…
34. 17 JulFletcher’s Zero-Sum Presumptions Shove Him Into Unmistakable Error
35. 17 JulSome Links
36. 17 JulThe State of K-12 Government-School Funding
37. 16 JulOpen Letter to David Sirota
38. 16 JulThe Fraud of the Social Security ‘Trust Fund’ Exposed by a Most Unlikely Source
39. 15 JulQuotation of the Day…
40. 15 JulSmoke and mirrors
41. 15 JulQuotation of the Day…
42. 15 JulKeynes vs. Reality-2
43. 14 JulIt’s the PSST, Stupid!
44. 14 JulAggregate Healthiness
45. 14 JulQuotation of the Day…
46. 13 JulKeynes vs. Reality
47. 13 JulDudley North on Free Trade
48. 13 JulQuotation of the Day…
49. 12 JulDamn Those Innovative and Cost-Cutting Monopolists!
50. 12 JulCosts are Not Benefits
51. 12 JulQuotation of the Day…
52. 11 JulSo Good of the Likes of Sen. Schumer to Care So Deeply for Ordinary Chinese Citizens
53. 11 JulQuotation of the Day…
54. 10 JulIgnoring the Elephant
55. 9 JulEnough Already with Namby-Pamby Liberalism
56. 9 JulReplicators a Reality
57. 9 JulThe Curse of Nationalism
58. 8 JulWhen dogmas collide
59. 8 JulConsumer surplus
60. 8 JulA theory of government
61. 7 JulPulling back the curtain
62. 7 JulQuotation of the Day…
63. 6 JulLearnLiberty
64. 6 JulA Source of Wealth or Stagnation?
65. 6 JulSome Links
66. 6 JulDown is Not Up
67. 6 JulQuotation of the Day…
68. 5 JulNo sense waiting
69. 5 JulUnemployment and education
70. 5 JulKung Fu Panda 2
71. 5 JulA Sports Analogy that Works
72. 5 JulSkeel on bankruptcy
73. 5 JulYe Olde Question for Mister Brooks
74. 4 JulA True American Hero
75. 3 JulAn Empirical Question
76. 3 JulGeorge Will on the Morgenson and Rosner Book
77. 2 JulQuotation of the Day…
78. 1 JulHenderson on Cowen on the Great Stagnation
79. 1 JulWhat Pills are these Guys Popping?
80. 1 JulProsperity by Diktat?

June 2011

1. 30 JunA mystery
2. 30 JunQuotation of the Day…
3. 30 JunInnovationism
4. 29 JunThe mysterious dollar coin
5. 29 JunObama and manufacturing
6. 29 JunMarkets or Mandates?
7. 29 JunSome Links
8. 29 JunQuotation of the Day…
9. 28 JunQuotation of the Day…
10. 27 JunOpen Letter to the President of UAW Local 599
11. 27 JunBhagwati on the Morality of Free Trade
12. 26 JunQuotation of the Day…
13. 26 JunEconomic Growth Does Not Eliminate Scarcity
14. 26 JunOn the Finiteness of Resources
15. 26 JunCelebrating Control
16. 25 JunQuotation of the Day…
17. 25 JunThe Most Dangerous Delusion and Addiction of All
18. 25 JunQuotation of the Day…
19. 24 JunOtteson at a bargain price
20. 24 JunOn C-Span this Sunday
21. 24 JunThe Clinton Years
22. 23 JunQuotation of the Day…
23. 23 JunLudwig Lachmann on Income ‘Inequality’
24. 23 JunSome Links
25. 23 JunSmitten with Monopoly Privileges
26. 23 Jun‘Progressives’ Should Cheer
27. 23 JunQuotation of the Day…
28. 22 JunThe Circle Isn’t a Square
29. 22 JunProductivity and Progress
30. 22 JunMuscle Inequality
31. 22 JunQuotation of the Day…
32. 21 JunNote on the Fly
33. 21 JunSome Links
34. 21 JunResources are Scarce II
35. 21 JunResources are Scarce
36. 21 JunThe Phillips’ Jumble
37. 21 JunA good week for thinking about Adam Smith
38. 20 JunThe Make-Work Fallacy for the Gazillionth Time
39. 20 JunMunger on exchange and power
40. 19 JunOpen Letter to Paul Krugman
41. 19 JunOn C-Span tonight (nope–next Sunday the 26th)
42. 18 JunQuotation of the Day…
43. 18 JunMore On the Ordered Liberty Allegedly Promoted by the ‘Drug War’
44. 17 JunQuotation of the Day…
45. 17 JunSome ‘Drug War’ Links
46. 17 JunLarge Numbers, Small Numbers, and Coasean Bargaining
47. 17 JunNeither Order Nor Liberty
48. 17 JunAddicted to an Immoral Substance: Power
49. 17 JunSome Links
50. 16 JunA Constitutional Question
51. 16 JunCotton This
52. 16 JunQuotation of the Day…
53. 16 JunHe Who Lives by Legislation….
54. 15 JunOpen Letter to Barack Obama
55. 15 JunQuotation of the Day….
56. 14 JunA Question About Institutions and Incentives
57. 14 JunTHIS Was the Heart of What Hayek Warned Against in his ‘Road to Serfdom’
58. 14 JunTheatre of the Absurd
59. 13 JunAnd So Many More Questions In Addition to These….
60. 13 JunSome Links
61. 12 JunTheory and Facts
62. 12 JunHarry Johnson on Keynes
63. 11 JunSchumpeter on Keynesians
64. 11 JunWidespread Prosperity Through Breach of Contract
65. 10 JunSome Links
66. 10 Jun‘The Honorable’ – My Arse!
67. 9 JunMore on the Economic Irrelevance of Political Borders
68. 7 JunMy “generosity”
69. 7 JunEichengreen on the dollar
70. 6 JunA Question for Single-Payer Proponents
71. 6 JunMr. Krugman vs. Dr. Krugman Again
72. 6 JunProhibition Failed Then and It Fails Now
73. 5 JunShould ‘Progressives’ Admire North Korea?
74. 5 JunYet More for the ‘I Miss Julian Simon’ File
75. 5 JunSmith and Keynes Share a Birthday
76. 5 JunWalter Williams Against the State Against Blacks
77. 4 JunBook of Letters-to-the-Editor
78. 4 JunMcmr
79. 4 JunButt Out
80. 3 JunHerbert Hoover didn’t cut spending
81. 3 JunBack from Israel
82. 2 JunMore on “Wanna Bet”
83. 1 JunSome Links
84. 1 JunAnswer to Question # 2 on Last Month’s Pop Quiz
85. 1 JunSelgin Enters the Blogosphere

May 2011

1. 31 MayWanna Bet?
2. 30 MayHands Off!
3. 30 MaySome Links
4. 28 MayEnd Trade Adjustment Assistance
5. 27 MaySome Links
6. 27 MayThe Problem Began When the Invention of the Spear Reduced the Price of Food
7. 27 May“What’s Chinese for Chutzpah?”
8. 27 MayThe Only People Wal-Mart Should Have to Court are Consumers
9. 26 MayCowboys and Indians
10. 25 MayThe Guardian looks at the rap videos
11. 25 MayClearly Some People DO Believe that State and Society are Identical
12. 24 MaySpeaking in Israel
13. 24 MayBill “Chicken Little” McKibben
14. 23 MayPaving the Road to Hell
15. 22 MayGabler Needs Some Scottish Enlightenment
16. 22 MaySome Links
17. 21 MayBennis v. Michigan and the Awful Advance of Civil Asset Forfeiture
18. 21 MayRepulsive Government
19. 21 MayAnother for the ‘I Miss Julian Simon’ File
20. 20 MayBeware of Celebrating Decreases in the Current-Account Deficit
21. 20 MayCalling Dr. Krugman….
22. 20 MayKrugman Channels Trump
23. 19 MayCapitalists never liked capitalism
24. 19 MayIsrael, Part 2
25. 19 MayAbolish the IMF
26. 19 MayStrine-accented macro
27. 18 May700,000 views
28. 18 MayIsrael
29. 17 MayThe Morality of Profit
30. 17 MayDISGUSTING
31. 17 MayTrade Adjustment Assistance?
32. 17 MaySome Links
33. 16 MayIf Only Wal-Mart Would Start Supplying K-12 Schooling!
34. 16 MayRomney’s candidacy is a joke
35. 16 MayByers on the Blind Spot
36. 15 MayMacaulay’s “Southey’s Colloquies on Society” (the abridged version)
37. 15 MayAnswer to Question #1
38. 13 MayPop Quiz
39. 13 MayNot Cynical, Actually; A Realist
40. 13 MayMP3 of Fight of the Century
41. 13 MayOily Witch Hunt
42. 12 MayThe Fight of the Century is two weeks old
43. 11 MayMore Pontificating, Less Producing – That’s the Power of DC
44. 10 MayOpen Letter to Mark Plotkin Regarding Professor Cornpone
45. 10 MayImported from Bastiatland
46. 9 MayThe psychology of discarded statesmen
47. 9 May600,000 Views for Fight of the Century
48. 9 MayThe Hayek Club
49. 9 MayHayek on Fukuyama
50. 9 MayEasterly on Fukuyama
51. 9 MayUnwittingly Enabling Crony Capitalism
52. 9 MayCaplan on Parenting
53. 8 MayPeople Like My Mom and Dad
54. 8 May“I Want Plans by the Many, Not by the Few”
55. 8 MayNot the End of Hayek
56. 7 MayHypocritical Boeing
57. 7 MayThe Wages of Domestic Protectionism
58. 6 MayOne Long Infomercial – but With a Difference
59. 6 MayFight of the Century with Polish subtitles
60. 5 MayI Miss Julian Simon
61. 5 MayReason.tv interview on Fight of the Century
62. 5 MayFight of the Century with Japanese subtitles
63. 5 MayPublic Supermarkets
64. 4 MayFight of the Century with Italian subtitles
65. 4 MayRising inequality
66. 4 MayHarsanyi on the debt ceiling
67. 4 MayAmerican Exceptionalism
68. 4 MayWhat we’ve learned about Obama (and power)
69. 3 MaySome Links
70. 3 May‘Poor’ Americans, Amply Served by the Market
71. 3 MayFlawed Logic
72. 2 MayPapola talks economics
73. 2 MayFight of the Century now with English captions
74. 2 MayGarrison on Keynes and Keynesians
75. 2 MayKeynes and central planning
76. 1 MayDigging deeper into the Fight of the Century
77. 1 MayFight of the Century in the classroom
78. 1 MayThe Circus
79. 1 MayFight of the Century with Hebrew subtitles

April 2011

1. 30 AprDamn Martians!
2. 30 AprBuffaloed
3. 29 AprMy take on Hayek’s take on the budget mess
4. 29 AprThe Fight of the Century (with Italian subtitles)
5. 29 AprEnergized by Free Trade
6. 29 AprHayek’s influence
7. 29 AprNeocons’ Con
8. 28 AprThe Fight of the Century
9. 27 AprI Got an E-mail Today from Ritz-Carlton….
10. 27 AprJudged by His Own Criteria
11. 27 AprThe Great Fact
12. 26 AprMencken on 1848…. and on 2011
13. 26 AprLand
14. 26 AprThere Ain’t No Such Thing As Free Currency Manipulation
15. 26 AprI Want Sustainability (which is why I support free markets)
16. 26 AprA Sad Anniversary
17. 26 AprWill Wilkinson on Paul Krugman
18. 25 AprPredatory Pricing, Product Improvements, and Wal-Mart
19. 24 AprThe Fight of the Century
20. 24 AprGrocery School
21. 24 AprOther People’s Money
22. 23 AprTaxing Facts
23. 22 AprBut Not Sufficiently Sacred for Physicians to Work for Free
24. 22 AprTaxing
25. 22 AprOr, If Libertarians are Adolescent, then Non-libertarians are Downright Childish
26. 21 AprThe May Freeman
27. 21 AprTaking a Loss Today in Hopes of Higher Profits in the Future
28. 21 AprCui Bono?
29. 21 AprPyramid Schemes
30. 21 AprMoney Isn’t Wealth
31. 21 AprArgghhhh!
32. 20 AprSome Links
33. 20 AprIn Politics, Idiocy Trumps All
34. 19 AprAn Objective Scientific Case for Intervention?
35. 18 AprNatural Scientists and Economics
36. 18 AprClimate Change
37. 18 AprNo Archons
38. 17 AprRenting Reality
39. 17 AprKlein on openness
40. 16 ApriCreative Destruction
41. 14 AprNot even a deck chair on the Titanic
42. 13 AprRodrik and externalities
43. 13 AprThe housing boom and bust, part 2
44. 13 AprAren’t We Fortunate?
45. 13 AprThe housing boom and bust
46. 13 AprDaniels
47. 13 AprThere’s no their there
48. 13 AprIt’s a great time to be alive
49. 12 AprAnd the Straw Individual(ism) Is Down for the Count!
50. 12 AprSome Links
51. 11 AprTerryfied
52. 11 AprBrainwashed?
53. 11 AprOpen Letter to Mike Norman
54. 10 AprSome Links
55. 10 AprPlane Common Sense
56. 9 AprWhat a Joke
57. 8 AprThe ‘con’ in econometrics made visible
58. 8 AprHow Much Is a Dollar’s Worth of Exports Worth?
59. 8 AprObama embraces regime uncertainty
60. 8 AprTwo Budgets
61. 8 AprWisdom from Bryan Caplan
62. 8 AprCoddled
63. 7 AprSnow Domes and Baseball Caps
64. 6 AprEconomics and Non-Pecuniary Values
65. 6 AprSome Links
66. 6 AprTalk About the Bourgeoisie
67. 6 AprPredatory Pricing
68. 5 AprStudy Questions for The Price of Everything
69. 5 AprGetting the Point of Economics
70. 5 AprProgress
71. 5 AprStudy questions for The Price of Everything
72. 5 AprBottom up vs. top down
73. 4 AprBitCoin
74. 4 AprCosts are Not Benefits
75. 4 AprHiggs on Scientism and the Lamentable State of Macroeconomics
76. 4 AprEconTalk ringtone (includes iPhone file)
77. 4 AprSome Links
78. 4 AprEconTalk Ringtones
79. 3 AprKrugman and Expectations
80. 3 AprTwo Videos
81. 3 AprAs Compared to What?
82. 3 AprSome Links
83. 3 AprEnergetic Protectionism
84. 2 AprIf It Reasons Like a Duck….
85. 2 AprSerial Obstructionism
86. 1 AprGo Arianna!

March 2011

1. 31 MarSneak preview of the new Keynes-Hayek rap video
2. 31 MarYour chance to star in the next Keynes-Hayek rap video
3. 31 MarAnd Which Part of Article I, Section 8 Authorizes Such Expenditures?
4. 30 MarNot so unfathomable or mystifying
5. 30 MarEnergetically Political
6. 30 MarReview Questions for The Choice
7. 30 MarHans Rosling again
8. 30 MarJulian Simon on Firing Line
9. 30 MarBirther Myth
10. 29 MarOn State- and Local-Government Revenues
11. 28 MarWill Wilkinson on Charles and David Koch
12. 28 MarSome Links
13. 28 MarJust Another Facile Politician
14. 27 MarTariffs: Protective and Revenue
15. 27 MarIs Earth Hour Wantonly Wasteful?
16. 26 MarHuman Achievement Hour, 2011
17. 26 MarCleaned – and Educated – by Capitalism
18. 25 MarAnother Open Letter to Sen. Sherrod Brown
19. 25 MarConscience on the Battlefield
20. 24 MarBut Is It an Appetizer or Dessert?
21. 24 MarSpecial Edition
22. 24 MarTrade and Borders
23. 23 MarPreferences and Policy
24. 23 MarMade on Earth
25. 22 MarHighly Recommended for Students
26. 22 MarA Conflict of Visions Different than the One Sowell Identified
27. 22 MarSpeaking in Charleston, SC
28. 21 MarSome Links
29. 21 MarPerry, Fletcher, and Poverty Reduction Worldwide
30. 21 MarI Presume He’ll Accept My Offer
31. 21 MarWas Adam Smith the 18th-century’s Paul Krugman?
32. 21 MarIrwin vs. Fletcher on China
33. 20 MarProclaimed Intentions are Not Results
34. 19 MarSt. Augustine Anticipates H.L. Mencken and Walter Williams
35. 19 MarFor A More Poetic Explanation, Read Wilfred Owen’s Most Famous Poem
36. 19 MarAn Anniversary of A Regrettable Movement
37. 18 MarKrugman’s Forgotten History
38. 18 MarDeLong vs Cowen
39. 18 MarWho wrote it?
40. 18 MarNo Fetish for Manufacturing
41. 17 MarFear China?
42. 17 MarSome Links
43. 17 MarSolving the Puzzle
44. 16 MarEssay on Keynesianism, Part the First
45. 16 MarMore on the ‘Trust-Fund’ Fraud
46. 15 MarOpen Letter on Fletcher’s Silliness about Sovereignty
47. 15 MarSlick Argument
48. 15 MarSome nuance on destruction
49. 15 MarPseudo-Science
50. 15 MarMelloan on Bastiat on What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen
51. 14 MarWhat Summers really really meant
52. 14 MarCollectivist Notions So Easily Distort Thinking
53. 14 MarAnd Yet the Western Left then Celebrated the Glories of the U.S.S.R.
54. 14 MarSome Links
55. 13 MarPearlstein on Dani Rodrik
56. 13 MarRSS fixed at the Cafe
57. 13 MarHappiness
58. 12 MarTrade is Trade
59. 12 MarBuchanan on Becoming
60. 11 MarI don’t understand the logic
61. 11 MarHappy Anniversary, Wealth of Nations, Part II
62. 11 MarMy Continuing Conversation With Ian Fletcher
63. 11 MarSome Links
64. 11 MarApplauding Judge Napolitano
65. 10 MarLike a Biologist Asking ‘Who Runs Evolution?’
66. 10 MarWahoo
67. 10 MarThe Rule of Law is Weakened
68. 10 MarThe Earth Does APPEAR to be Flat….
69. 10 MarThe Price of the Price of Everything
70. 10 MarBiden deeply critical of recent US policy. Not.
71. 10 MarQuestions for Ian Fletcher
72. 9 MarBear vs. Lehman
73. 9 MarA steal
74. 9 MarPaul Krugman and the one hoss shay
75. 9 Mar3.9.1776
76. 9 MarSome Links
77. 9 MarWill Asks
78. 8 MarDemsetz On Coase and Pigou
79. 8 MarLamenting the Demise of Slavery?
80. 8 MarProtectionism 101
81. 7 MarA Lesson In Public Choice
82. 7 MarMy Continuing Public Conversation with Ian Fletcher
83. 7 MarU.S.A. #1!
84. 6 MarProtectionists are to Economics What Astrologers are to Astrophysics
85. 6 MarDysfunctional
86. 6 MarHiggs Reviews Derek Leebaert’s “Magic and Mayhem”
87. 6 MarWhat Would Mencken Do?
88. 6 MarGeorge Will Puts the Ridiculous Gingrich and Huckabee In Their Place
89. 5 MarJacksonville IS the Biggest City in the U.S., Area-wise
90. 5 MarWilliford on Perry
91. 4 MarLonghorns vs. Badgers
92. 4 MarThe Great Distortion
93. 4 MarSachs Channels Gandhi
94. 4 MarBut Is this Elevation of GMU a Compliment?: An Open Letter to a Correspondent
95. 4 MarSome Links
96. 3 MarWal-Mart and Creative Destruction
97. 3 MarThe Red Sox and opportunity cost
98. 3 MarLiberalize the Market for Bone Marrow
99. 3 MarAnother Open Letter to Ian Fletcher
100. 3 MarGeorge Will on the state of American politics
101. 2 MarOpen Letter to Rush Limbaugh
102. 2 MarAncient Wisdom
103. 1 MarMuammar D. el-Rockefeller?
104. 1 MarHot Stove Economics
105. 1 MarWhat Produces Losers is Protectionism
106. 1 MarMilked

February 2011

1. 28 FebWere Jed Clampett’s Economic Fortunes ‘Hollow’?
2. 28 FebFletcher Doesn’t Understand Trade
3. 28 FebSome Links
4. 28 FebApologies for Cafe Problems
5. 28 FebGeorge Will can really put a sentence together
6. 28 FebOpen Letter to An E-Mail Correspondent
7. 27 FebActually, New York City Should Erect Its Own Tariff Walls….
8. 27 FebEconomic Lysenkoism
9. 25 FebWhat I’ll Watch on TV this Weekend
10. 25 FebMore on Ian Fletcher’s Misinformation about Trade
11. 25 FebSome Links
12. 25 FebDon’t follow the money
13. 25 FebThe Road to Hell
14. 25 FebHarsanyi on Wisconsin
15. 25 FebMythmaking
16. 24 FebI o me
17. 24 FebA Marshallian Mistake
18. 24 FebSome Links
19. 23 FebThe alternative to unions
20. 23 FebCivil Societies Cannot be Built – They Must Emerge
21. 23 FebEconomic Growth Happens When Labor Becomes More (Not Less) Productive
22. 22 FebWhy Do We Take These People Seriously?; Exhibit #34,577
23. 22 FebThe power of the rich
24. 22 FebObservation on the U.S. Trade Deficit
25. 22 FebThere Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Subsidy
26. 22 FebSome Links
27. 21 FebSubstances, Resources, and the Future
28. 21 FebAcemoglu on the inequality and the crisis
29. 21 FebGlobalization and Cosmopolitanism
30. 20 FebPaul Ehrlich, Genius?
31. 19 FebMore Caplan on Immigration
32. 19 FebINTERESTing
33. 19 FebOur Masters
34. 18 FebProgressive Bourbons
35. 18 FebAmong the Jobs of Competition
36. 18 FebLong time ago
37. 18 FebFear the Boom and Bust with Hebrew subtitles
38. 18 FebTestimony video (shorter)
39. 18 FebAnti-Antitrust
40. 17 FebWisdom from Edmund Burke
41. 17 FebTestimony on video
42. 17 FebDyson on Economics
43. 17 FebNew Books that I’m Especially Eager to Read
44. 16 FebThe empty chairs
45. 16 FebCongressional Testimony on the Stimulus
46. 16 FebFood, Famine, and Globalization
47. 16 FebSome Links
48. 15 FebBrooks on Cowen on Stagnation
49. 15 FebGMU Econ Bloggers
50. 15 FebCalling Bill Bryson
51. 15 FebBuying Loco
52. 15 FebBudget puzzle
53. 15 FebRent Extraction
54. 14 FebA Question about Corporations and Financial Markets
55. 14 FebHebrew subtitles for “Fear the Boom and Bust”
56. 14 FebCowen on the Great Stagnation
57. 14 FebAnd That’s Assuming the Cuts Actually Occur
58. 14 FebBuy Virginian!
59. 13 FebKling on PSST
60. 13 FebBad Reporting
61. 13 FebBuy American?
62. 13 Feb“Ron” Boudreaux Responds to Ian Fletcher
63. 13 FebSome Links
64. 12 FebYet More Evidence Against the Doctrine of Protectionism
65. 12 FebNot All Competition is Productive
66. 12 FebUnhealthy Care
67. 11 FebKirzner, Schumpeter, and At Least Two Dimensions of Competition
68. 11 FebOpen Letter to Donald Trump
69. 10 FebVirtue and Dignity: The Motion Picture
70. 10 FebPsst
71. 10 FebDeirdre’s Virtue and Dignity
72. 9 FebAt Least Ackerman Admits that the Actual Words of the Constitution Don’t Allow for Such Welfare-State Legislation
73. 9 FebVox Populi….
74. 9 FebOn the Reported Unemployment Rate
75. 9 FebSome Links
76. 8 FebWe Are Not Promethean Gods
77. 8 FebSome Links
78. 7 FebDriving Home the Economic Irrelevance of Borders
79. 7 FebHot to Jump to Conclusions
80. 6 FebMercantilism is Like Cockroaches: Grotesque Yet Indestructible as a Species
81. 6 FebColor Me Frustrated
82. 6 FebSome Links
83. 6 FebPessimism, Stagnation, and Politics
84. 6 FebGo With the Flow
85. 5 FebCataloging Improvements in Americans’ Living Standards
86. 5 FebOr, Another Real-World Instance of Public-Choice in Action
87. 5 FebOpen Letter to U.S. Senator Kay Hagan
88. 4 Feb‘Snow Different?
89. 4 FebOr Perhaps Sen. Sessions Really Is Worried About the Threat to America Posed by Foreign-made Sleeping Bags….
90. 3 FebMaximize Trade Agreements
91. 2 FebUsing PayPal to contribute to the rap video
92. 2 FebInfinite National Park photos
93. 2 FebMedian income over time is tricky
94. 2 FebRobert Samuelson misunderstands
95. 2 FebDo Only the Rich Get Richer?
96. 1 FebOur next rap video—please help
97. 1 FebOn Fletcher and the False Assumption of U.S. Manufacturing Decline
98. 1 FebRich Poor Americans
99. 1 FebIncandescent Arrogance
100. 1 FebNot-So-Sweet Sugar ‘Program’

January 2011

1. 31 JanCorruption and Fraud in Science
2. 31 JanTrade is Mutually Advantageous – and Its Advantages, for All Parties, are Measured in Imports
3. 30 JanQWOP Complexity
4. 30 JanDemythologizing Democracy
5. 30 JanThe Illogic of Mercantilism, Case #56,867
6. 29 JanA Proposal in the Public Interest
7. 29 JanSome Links
8. 28 JanA Quiz
9. 28 JanPhilistine… Or Constitutionalist?
10. 28 JanInternational Trade Is Not Properly Analogized to Sports or to War
11. 26 JanReactions to Last Night’s State of the Union Address
12. 26 JanSome Links
13. 26 JanRegime Uncertainty
14. 25 JanStagnation or mismeasurement?
15. 25 JanAsk the Protectionist
16. 25 JanOpen Letter to an Anonymous E-Mail Correspondent
17. 25 JanSome “No”s and “Yes”es of Health-Care
18. 25 JanDr. Krugman Would Understand What Mr. Krugman Doesn’t
19. 24 JanFortunately Familiar with Higgs’s Work
20. 24 JanTransferring Jobs
21. 24 JanIs Libertarianism Anti-American?
22. 24 JanFazzari on Keynesian stimulus
23. 23 JanPerry Edits Fletcher Again
24. 23 JanObama Reformed?
25. 23 JanMore on “Failure to Tax” as Subsidies
26. 23 JanInstrumental vs. Ultimate Goals
27. 22 JanYet Another Open Letter to Ian Fletcher
28. 22 JanDog Bites Man!
29. 22 JanMy Admittedly Idiosyncratic List of History’s 18 Top-10 Economists
30. 22 JanOpen Letter to an Anonymous E-mail Correspondent
31. 21 JanGreg Mankiw almost solves the deficit problem
32. 21 JanNo economics here
33. 21 JanBootleggers and Baptists, a footnote
34. 21 JanA thought experiment
35. 21 JanDemsetz on the Costs of Markets
36. 21 JanToo Loose! No, Wait: Too Tight!… No, Wait Again: Too Loose!….
37. 21 JanSome Links
38. 21 JanFans of Fibonacci
39. 21 JanAdam Smith on gouging, speculation, and political economy
40. 21 JanAutism and highways
41. 21 JanAustrian School Mascot
42. 20 JanDeeply Deficient Trade Thinking
43. 20 JanChicago and Camelot
44. 19 JanThe crazy housing market
45. 19 JanWho’s ‘Outcompeting’ Who?
46. 19 JanOld time religion
47. 19 JanMacro vs. Micro Thinking
48. 19 JanThey’re Only Human
49. 19 JanAny Color as Long as It’s Black
50. 18 JanDem Catfish Farmers is Jumpin’
51. 18 JanSome Links
52. 18 JanCorrupt cronies
53. 18 JanOpen Letter to Donald Trump
54. 17 JanEntertainers, Not Reporters
55. 17 JanWhy we need government
56. 17 JanHuman creativity
57. 17 JanIrwin on Chang
58. 16 JanKling on Galbraith
59. 16 JanOn “Tax Expenditures”
60. 16 JanThe Keynesian Diversion II
61. 16 JanJobs Are Not Pre-existing Boxes
62. 15 JanThe Intellectual Challenges of Protectionism
63. 15 JanThe Keynesian Diversion
64. 15 JanThrough Trade, Millions Tap Into the Talents and Knowledge and Efforts of Each Other
65. 15 JanI, Toaster II
66. 15 JanEl Hombre
67. 14 JanSome Links
68. 14 JanCompeting More Against Other Workers in the First World
69. 14 JanAn Unsavory Argument for a Sour Policy
70. 13 JanSome Economics of Trade
71. 13 JanTrade-deficit Horsey
72. 13 JanSome Links
73. 12 JanOpen Letter to Sethstorm
74. 12 JanTime for Better Economic Reporting
75. 12 JanStimulus Too Small? Nein!
76. 12 JanA Lott to Ponder
77. 12 JanThe Rights Stuff
78. 12 JanIn Defense of Global Capitalism
79. 12 JanIn the Long Run, It’s All Microeconomics
80. 12 JanThe Climate of Hate
81. 12 JanHayek on Keynes
82. 11 JanJobs Destroyed and Created
83. 11 JanThe Effect of Trade on Income
84. 11 JanYes – Read Krugman
85. 11 JanIrresponsible, Baseless, Accusatory Political Rhetoric
86. 11 JanA History Lesson
87. 11 JanWill on the MSM on Violence
88. 10 JanWho Decides?
89. 10 JanF.H. Knight Reviews J.M. Keynes
90. 10 JanAn Open Letter to Nahila Campos
91. 10 JanCaldwell on Hayek
92. 10 JanScientism
93. 10 JanHow “Progressives” Prevent Progress, Case # 23,098
94. 9 JanTrade Produces No Losers
95. 9 JanReductios
96. 9 JanAnother Open Letter to Ian Fletcher
97. 9 JanMy yard
98. 9 JanAn Open Letter to Ian Fletcher
99. 9 JanPerhaps I Should Stop Trading with Parties Who Do Not Live in My Household
100. 8 JanDebt Hypocrisy
101. 7 JanDinner Table Economics
102. 7 JanBrad DeLong is Not a Nice Man
103. 6 JanA Productive Role for Homeland Security?
104. 6 JanEconomnomnomics
105. 5 JanI Wonder if Brad Will Accept My Offer to Wager
106. 5 JanThe Magnitude of the Problem
107. 5 JanWhat is economics good for?
108. 5 JanAn Open Letter To Erin Ennis
109. 5 JanDoes the Constitution Matter?
110. 5 JanAnswer Me This
111. 5 JanLimited Powers
112. 4 JanAh, the Beauty of Collective Choice
113. 4 JanApplying the Principle
114. 4 JanThe Test
115. 3 JanThe Reality and Relevance of Income ‘Inequality’
116. 3 JanImperfect, but true
117. 3 JanWhy the economy is like football
118. 3 JanThose nice bright colors
119. 3 Jan7 billion and counting
120. 3 JanRobin Hanson on the technological singularity
121. 3 JanA Consequence of Mr. Keynes
122. 2 JanIncome, Inequality, Status, and Health
123. 1 JanTeasley on Packaging
124. 1 JanValedictory