2022
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2022 1,296
December 2022
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Most Lockdowners Can’t Admit They Were Wrong
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Innovism’s Packaging
- Ronald Coase (1910-2013)
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Judith Curry Counsels Calm About the Climate
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Jonathan Sumption on Risks, Risk Aversion, and the (Further) Rise of the Authoritarian State
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Some People Have A Comparative Disadvantage at Understanding Comparative Advantage
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- On Mapping Onto Reality Our Theoretical Understanding of Comparative Advantage
- John Tierney Explains and Decries the Covid-Fueled Further Politicization of Science
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Let’s Amend the U.S. Constitution
- Quotation of the Day…
- David Henderson on “The Abject Failure of Central Planning During Covid”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Vernon Smith on Adam Smith (and on Adam Smith’s Interpreters)
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Getting Adam Smith Right
- Quotation of the Day…
- Vernon Smith on the Fall of ‘Nature’
- History “Disprivileges” This Person’s Understanding
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Daniele Struppa on the ‘Degrowth’ Paper
- Some Links
- How ‘Nature’ Has Fallen
- Quotation of the Day…
- Communicating Economics
- A Sure Cure for “Eco-Anxiety”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Inclusion?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Are Free Traders Guilty of Naïve Globalism?
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Freeman Essay #146: “It Just Ain’t So!”
- On Social Media Suppression of Expression
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Libido for the Superficial
- The Moral Case for Recycling Only When Directed To Do So by the Market
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Recycle – When It’s Not Wasteful To Do So
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Letter to a Progressive With Poor Reading Comprehension
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Homeschooling As Evidence of the Decrepitude of Government K-12 “Education”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Mute applause for free-trade deals”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
November 2022
- To Have A Comparative Advantage At Supplying X Is Necessarily to Have A Comparative Disadvantage At Supplying Y
- There Is On Earth No ‘Natural Carrying Capacity’ for Humans
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- No Retaliatory Tariffs
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Beware the pretense of science”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Racism Is a Poor Explanatory Variable
- Quotation of the Day…
- Are Scandinavian Welfare States Rooted in Viking Slaveholding?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “The Pilgrims’ economic progress”
- Quotation of the Day…
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- The Seen and Unseen of Tax Cuts
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Trade Is Trade Is Trade
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Focused Protection vs. Evil Straw Men
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- DeMuth Stumbles
- Generosity Is Admirable, But It’s Wasteful When Poorly Aimed
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Tax Cuts and Private Enterprise
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- More on Personal Liability for Lockdowners
- Quotation of the Day…
- Vernon Smith: “Markets Are Incredible”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- What’s Happening to Econ Teaching?
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- On Moving Beyond Covid
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- It’s All Banditry
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Protectionists Are Shielded From Embarrassment By Their Formidable Ignorance of Economics
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Certainty is Dangerous
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Opponents of Globalization Continue to Offer Only Weak Arguments
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Marian Tupy Talks With Deirdre McCloskey
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Southern Economic Journal: “The Resale Price Maintenance Policy Dilemma: Comment”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Emily Oster’s Proposed ‘Pandemic Amnesty’
- Progressivism and Public Health
- What Protectionists Get Wrong Is the Economics
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Inframarginal Consumers and the Per Se Legality of Vertical Restraints
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
October 2022
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- The Fed Has Indeed Failed
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- The Case for Free Trade Is Stronger Than Protectionists Imagine It to Be
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Trying to Get Into the Heads of Today’s Progressive Racists
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Protectionism Is An Affront to Non-Monetary Values
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “The science of economics”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Greed Isn’t Spendable
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Note the Irony
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Government Is Largely Guesswork
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- More on Some Difficult Questions of Trade Policy
- Some Links
- Evidence That Time Makes Demand More Elastic
- Quotation of the Day…
- Rue Britannia
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- It’s Difficult to Believe That an Economist Can be So Terribly Clueless about Basic Economics
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Resisting the Woke Doesn’t Require Rejecting Free Markets
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Big government’s impossible task”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Jay Bhattacharya and Jenin Younes on the Case Against Fauci
- Some Links
- Most News Media are Overheated
- Quotation of the Day…
- Antitrust Is Bad Quality Intervention
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Some Difficult Questions About Trade Policy
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Even Ronald Reagan Couldn’t Use Protectionist Alchemy to Turn Engineered Scarcity Into Economic Abundance
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- The Reality of Rent Control Cannot Be Pointed Out Too Often
- Quotation of the Day…
- Does Industrial Policy Suffer the Knowledge Problem?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- King and Vaughn Should Voluntarily Restrain Themselves from Writing About Trade
- Quotation of the Day…
- Prosperity Is Not Rooted in Slavery
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
September 2022
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Look Who’s A ‘Market Fundamentalist’
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Southern Economic Journal: Review of Richard Epstein’s ‘Simple Rules for a Complex World’
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Mad
- Lol
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Access to Amazon’s Site Enhances Third-Party Merchants’ Competitiveness
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- “None of Them”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Don’t Trust Antitrust
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- There’s More to It Than That Which Meets the Eye
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Meet the real engine of equality”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Cato Journal: A Review (co-authored with Adam Pritchard) of Leonard W. Levy’s ‘A License to Steal’
- Production Occurs Only If It Increases Ability to Consume
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pictures – Well, Graphs – Worth Many Words
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Some Empirical Evidence on Deflation
- Quotation of the Day…
- Challenging John Burtka to a Debate on Trade Policy
- Cato Journal: “Cable Reregulation” (with Bob Ekelund)
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Not All Deflation Causes Suffering
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Myopia of Antitrust
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Antitrust Ain’t Groovy
- Walter Williams on the Welfare State
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Competitive regulation”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Phil Magness…
- 52 Years Ago Today Milton Friedman Wrote Against Stakeholder Capitalism
- A Reflection on Bastiat’s “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen”
- Some Links
- Not a Promising Start for Liz Truss
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Intellectuals and the ‘China Shock’
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Schumpeter Would Not Be Surprised
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Suppression of the Market Isn’t Market Failure
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- American Law and Economics Review: Robert Cooter’s ‘The Strategic Constitution’
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- No Learning Loss Among Swedish School Children
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Bellante and Picone on Card and Krueger
- Quotation of the Day…
- If Labor Markets are Red Hot, Collective Bargaining Cannot Even In Theory Help Some Workers Without Harming Others
- Cato Journal (with Dwight Lee): “Politics As the Art of Confined Compromise”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Barron’s: A Review of Robert Kuttner’s ‘Debtor’s Prison’
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Covid and Climate “Science”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- An Open Letter to the Directors of the American Economic Association
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- A Lesson from Today’s NASA
- Regulation: “Phone Bill Too High? Blame the FCC”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Tech Central Station: “Dobbs’s Disciples (Why America is Growing Richer, Not Poorer, From Free Trade)”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Maybe Covid Loves the Blue-State Scene
- Wall Street Journal: Bankruptcy Doesn’t Equal Death
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
August 2022
- Internalized Costs Are Not Evidence of Market Failure
- And Again, Then A Miracle Occurs
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Nor Does the Free Market Read Shakespeare
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- To Advocate Industrial Policy Is to Pose As a Fortuneteller
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Scale of state”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Meaningful Jobs are Productive Jobs – Not Protected Jobs
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Mad Witch Hunting Intensifies
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- ‘Following the Science’ – My &(Y#
- Recollecting My First Day of Law School
- The (Il)logic of Retaliatory Industrial Policy
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Yep 3
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Let’s Not Participate In a TRUE Race to the Bottom
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Arnold Kling on Superabundance
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Getting the Quantity Theory of Money Straight
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Jay Bhattacharya and Scott Atlas
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Price Controls Do Not Work
- Samuel Gregg on America’s Commercial Republic
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Collective Decisions Differ Fundamentally From Private Decisions
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- To All Supporters of Industrial Policy…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- The Pretense of Knowledge Is Ubiquitous
- Steven Koonin on Climate Myths
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- One Must Really Look Beyond the Hype
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Adam Smith Must Not Be Conscripted Into the Ranks of the National Conservatives
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Smith’s Use in The Wealth of Nations of “Invisible Hand”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Talk About Labor-Market Power Continues to Be Cheap
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Comparative advantage vs. China”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- On Smith and Marx
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Two Benjamins on Export Restrictions
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On the Great Great Barrington Declaration
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Smart people, smart process”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Economic Competition Is Not a Tort; Its Costs are Internalized By the Market Process
- In Praise of Liberalism
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- National Conservatives Demand the Economic Equivalent of a Square Circle
- Calling Mark Perry
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- More on the Dangers of National Conservatism
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- National Conservatives Should Learn Some Economics
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Progressives and Their Consistent Failure to Understand the Incomprehensible Complexity of Reality’s Details
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Good Medicine; Wrong Prescription
- Quotation of the Day…
- Goods and Services With Price Ceilings of $0
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
July 2022
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Geoff Brennan, R.I.P.
- Price Ceilings Harm Those Persons Who Can Least Afford to Be Harmed
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Inflated with Motivated Reasoning
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Orwell Nailed It
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Not to Mention the Grotesque Immorality of Such a Ban
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Sequesterphobia”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Save Us from Such “Bipartisan Progress”
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Minimum questions about minimum wage”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- In Defense of Consumer Sovereignty
- Some Links
- Thinking Seriously About Responding to the Theft of IP
- Quotation of the Day…
- Getting Cause and Effect Straight
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Silence golden for market economy”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The World Would Be a Better Place Without Any International Trade and Finance Accounting
- Some Economics of True Price Floors
- Floridians and Covid
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- I Hope That Ms. Ruben Isn’t a Teacher of Economics or of Logic
- Bilateral ‘Trade Deficits’ and Money
- Some Links
- The Real Danger Is Hysteria
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Why Bilateral Trade Accounts are Meaningless
- On the Economics of Trade, Lighthizer Is a Lightweight
- Some Links
- Political Activism: The Reality
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Retailing Nonsense
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- About Climate-Change’s Economic Cost
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Five Negative Consequences of Price Ceilings
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman on Inflation
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on BA.5 and Media Histrionics
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- And Student-Loan Forgiveness Didn’t Help
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Desperate to Keep Humanity Alarmed
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Risks Are Inescapable – The Only Question Is Whether to Assess Them Accurately or Inaccurately
- Defending My Drivel
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Paris Will Need a New Moniker
- Some Links
- Change the Constitution?
- Majority Rule Isn’t As Straightforward As Many People Suppose It to Be
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Four Amazing Differences
- Quotation of the Day…
- Hotter and Longer Perhaps; More Dangerous, Not So Much
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- The Typical Politician Is Loathsome
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
June 2022
- Don’t Worry: It’s Okay; The Money We’re Spending Isn’t Ours
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Let’s Keep Our Own Trade Free
- Free Markets
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on Nancy MacLean’s Egregious ‘Scholarship’
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on the Standard of Living of Pets Under Capitalism
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Courts Are Neither Legislatures Nor Constitutional Conventions
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- So True
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Extra! Extra! Read All About It! The Court Bucks Majority!
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Dobbs and the Ninth Amendment
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Biden Gives New Meaning to “Bully Pulpit”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- I Oppose Further Government-orchestrated Efforts to Reduce Carbon Emissions
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “James M. Buchanan, R.I.P.”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Busting middle-class myths”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Looking Back on a Disgraceful Academic Performance of Five Years Ago
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- And So It’s Long Been
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Deficit of Economic Understanding Is, Unfortunately, De Maximus
- Let It Be Known that Today Is Paul McCartney’s 80th Birthday
- Quotation of the Day…
- Yet Another Genius Proposal from Sen. Warren
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “The middle class, then & now”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Refining the Argument
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- “A ‘Textbook Case’ of Government Overreach”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Economic Lessons from “This Old House”
- Covid Poses No Significant Risks to Children
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “‘Riding’ Social Security off a cliff”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- More on the Folly of Price Controls
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Regime Uncertainty Is Real … and Dangerous
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Government-Imposed Protection from Covid Can Be Hazardous to Our Health
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- My Review of Thomas Piketty’s ‘Time For Socialism’
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Toddler-like Thinking
- MacLean Is Best Ignored
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Enough With “Greedflation”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Jonathan Sumption Argues Against Lockdowns
- There Is No Good Practical Case for Price Controls
- Quotation of the Day…
- Anti-Antitrust
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Counterintuitive Results of Understanding the Subjectivism of Cost
- Stuart Kirk on the Smallness of Climate Risks
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
May 2022
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Just speculating”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Save Us From Such ‘Progress’
- Oh My Gosh, Canada
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Enough With Potted History
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Coase and Covid
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Covid Tyranny Is Not Rooted in True Liberalism
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Beware some economic commentary”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Unprofitable Analysis
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Deflating arguments for inflation”
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Open Debate Is Not a Luxury Only for Calm Times
- Quotation of the Day…
- Budgetary Rules and Norms Matter
- TTANSTAAFL (There Truly Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)
- Quotation of the Day…
- Elizabeth Warren Encourages Resource Waste
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Applauding Jeff Jacoby’s Busting of Trade-Deficit Myths
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on the Dangers of Price Controls
- Quotation of the Day…
- Seek little-t truth, but Reject those Who Peddle Capital-T Truth
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’s Really Gouging Consumers?
- Some Covid Links
- Out of the Mouths of Baby-Formula Bandits
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Samuel Adams and the “1619 Project”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Yet Further Evidence – From Another Legitimate Historian – Against the “1619 Project”
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- More from Bernard Bailyn on the American Revolutionaries and Slavery
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- No Serious Person Accepts Protectionism’s Implications
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bernard Bailyn’s History and the “1619 Project”
- Offending a Defender of the Laughable “1619 Project”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Yet More Evidence Against the “1619 Project”
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- On Keeping Concepts Clear
- Some Non-Covid Links
- On Protectionism and the Dignity of Protected Workers
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Way We Talk Matters
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Don’t Feel for Protected Workers
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Deficit spending no free lunch”
- Quotation of the Day…
April 2022
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Once Again, Effort Is Productive Only If It Enhances Consumption
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Speaking of Liberal Values
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- People Don’t Understand Prices
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Crowding out private-sector success”
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Reich Is Wildly Wrong
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Mask Mandates
- A World Without Petroleum
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Robin Givhan Should Read Ronald Coase
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Something to Cheer About!
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Cato Commentary: “Milton Friedman: A Centennial Appreciation”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review” “Success and society”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Yep 2
- Quotation of the Day…
- Government Efforts to Make Supplies More Secure Are Too Likely to Make Supplies Less Secure
- Market Prices are Objective Reports
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Congrats to Jon Murphy and Stephen Zimmer
- Quotation of the Day…
- Wall Street Journal: “Was Milton Friedman a Secret Admirer of Keynes?”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Spending & saving”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “The ‘good-citizen’ economist”
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Thomas Piketty and Capital
- New York Daily News: “How immigrant labor helps us all”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Economics, money & wealth”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Progressives Should Look in the Mirror
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Capital Is Not Fixed In Amount
- In Markets, High-Wage Workers ≡ High-Productivity Workers
- More a Documentary than a Fictional Movie
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- The Perniciousness of Price Controls
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bogart/Wilder Celebrate Market Entrepreneurship
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bad Medicine
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
March 2022
- It’s Impossible for Any Country to Be the Low-Cost Producer of All Outputs
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Economic Sanctions
- What’s Worth More? $1,000 of Microchips or $1,000 of Potato Chips?
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Serfdom looms”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- There Is No Saving the Case for Industrial Policy
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Cleansed by capitalism”
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Also Misunderstands Comparative Advantage
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- And WHY Do They Not Know?
- More On Oren Cass’s Misunderstanding of Adam Smith
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Rein In the Administrative State
- Dissenting from Oren Cass’s Take on Adam Smith on Trade
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- A False God
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- The Julian Simon Supply Curve
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Change the Design
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Beware Public-Health Paternalists
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Beware Drawing Parallels Between Smallpox and Covid-19
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- What Are Schools Teaching??
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Trade and Creative Destruction
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “The great anti-pollutant”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- It Was Two Years Ago Today…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Would You Invest In a Company Run In This Manner?
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Remember, Much Government Debt Is Monetized
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Instead of ‘Some Covid Links’ Today…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Then Why Not Compensate Also the Losers from Tariff HIKES?
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “A matter of principles”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “‘Help’ that hurts”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Essential Women of Liberty
- More Proper Praise for Petroleum
- Some Non-Covid Links
- A Recent Covid Roundtable Hosted by Ron DeSantis…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- An Unseen Cost of Debt-Financing of Government Expenditures
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Jonathan Sumption on Covidocratic Tyranny
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “In praise of petroleum”
- On Human Responsibility
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Yet More on the Pattern of Changes in Prices at the Pump
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on the Pattern of Changes in Prices at the Pump
- An Innocent and Compelling Explanation of the Temporal Pattern of Changes in Prices at the Pump
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Ode to the middleman”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Here’s More from Neil Oliver…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “An economist’s lament”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
February 2022
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Wow! SNL Dares to Question Covidians!
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Lynne Kiesling on Deirdre McCloskey
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Beware of an Inefficiently Narrow Understanding of Efficiency
- A Cartoon Is Worth 1,001 Words
- An Unsavory Profession
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Why Not “There Should be No Minimum Wage”?
- “Explain” Isn’t a Synonym for “Endorse”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Konstantin Kisin Explains Vaccine Hesitancy
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- JP Sears Ends On a Note of Optimism
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bill Allen
- An Exchange at EconLog About Covid Policy
- Some Covid Links
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Tyranny In Canada
- A Canadian Pilot Pleads for Resistance to Covidocratic Tyranny
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Spending other people’s money”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Tyranny and Its Resistance in Canada
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “We don’t owe it to ourselves”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- A Fiery Speech for Freedom
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “And the answer is?”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- In Respectful Disagreement With Alex Salter
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Tyranny Isn’t Excused by Good Intentions
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- “Children Erupt Into Cheers After Learning They Will No Longer Have To Wear Masks”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- JP Sears Reports on the Recent March Against the Mandates
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Beware the Mad Dogs of Antitrust
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- On Skepticism of Covid Vaccines
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Once Again, Being Worthwhile to Incur Does Not Turn Costs Into Benefits
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Putting Kids Last
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Peacefully Protesting Covid Hysteria
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- “We Have for Two Years Endured a Pandemic of Coercion and Compliance”
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
January 2022
- Complexity In Service to Simplicity
- Human Beings Are Not To Be Trusted With the Power to Lockdown
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Scott Atlas Asks If Truth Will Prevail
- Well, At Least They’re Reducing Their Children’s Prospects of Being Exposed to Covid-19
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on the Late, Great Walter Williams
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bill Walton Talks With George Will and Some Other Guests
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- What of the Photo of the Space-helmeted Woman?
- Simple 3
- Can’t Be Too Safe from the Covid Monster
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Errant assessments of ‘income inequality'”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Gruesome Anniversary
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- What a Difference a Year Makes
- The Irresponsibility of Intellectuals
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Let’s Separate School and State
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Middle-class stagnation?”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- What Employers Buy
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- More Panic Porn
- Gloriously Sane Florida
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- What Is The World Coming To?
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Summer Institute on the History of Economics
- Street Art that I Applaud
- “We’re Playing With Fire”
- JP Sears on the Unraveling Covid Narrative
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Market-Price Adjustments: A Masker of Many Inequalities
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On The Bob Zadek Show
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Challenging the Covid Leviathan
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- In Praise of Jurisdictional Competition
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- “Walter E. Williams: One of a Kind”
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Harold Black Remembers Walter Williams
- Some Progress Against Progressivism Is Better Than None
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- The Immense Importance of Freedom of Entry
- A Frustrated Parent
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Competition Should Be Judged By How Well Consumers – Not Producers and Sellers – Are Being Served
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Perhaps It IS Better That Children Not Be Allowed Contact with Such ‘Teachers’
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- The Covid Curtain
- Testing, Testing
- Reality Isn’t Optional, Exhibit No. …. (I’ve Lost Count)
- Some Covid Links
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Early blogging days”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Marty Makary Powerfully Protests Covid Derangement Syndrome on Campus
- Journalism: Yesterday and Today
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- If Sweden Were a U.S. State
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Memo to GMU President Gregory Washington
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Non-Covid Links
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Covid Links
- Quotation of the Day…