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December 2022

1. 31 DecA rose by any other name
2. 31 DecPartisan Horse-Trading in Indian Politics
3. 31 DecLessons from Isaac’s Storm
4. 30 DecThe boom of 2022 and the failure of contrarianism
5. 29 DecWhy Are Governments So Myopic?
6. 29 DecGood News from the Job Market
7. 28 DecAmerica knows best
8. 28 Dec#ReadWithMe: Flight to Arras , by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
9. 28 DecThe Abject Failure of Central Planning During COVID
10. 27 DecDifferent varieties of inflation
11. 27 DecStanford Fails to Master Clear Thinking
12. 26 DecOne of these monetary expansions is not like the other…
13. 26 DecJeffrey Rogers Hummel on Slavery
14. 25 DecThe Twelve Clicks of Christmas
15. 25 DecBeckerian Porch Pirates
16. 25 DecGuilty of intent to commit charity?
17. 24 Dec“Waste” in Market Economies
18. 24 DecJohn Bates Clark
19. 23 DecCovid returns to China
20. 23 DecThe “Unseen Effects” of California’s New Minimum-Wage Law
21. 23 DecMerry Commercial Christmas!
22. 23 DecSpeech Re-Education
23. 23 DecEvaluating Insurance
24. 22 DecAbout that illegal pot
25. 22 DecTrump’s Tax Returns: Quick Reflections
26. 22 DecFTX and After: Regulation to Protect the Consumers?
27. 22 DecI Want High-Income Earners to Stay
28. 21 DecThe Drug Reduction Act
29. 21 DecInflation can be brought down quickly
30. 20 DecChatGPT on Rent Control
31. 19 DecCats and Soup. And Economics.
32. 19 DecCBS Doesn’t Tell the Whole Smothers Brothers Story
33. 18 DecPrison Labor
34. 18 DecIn Japan, wages are also the problem
35. 18 DecOut-of-Pocket Health Care Spending Soared While Health Care Spending Grew Slowly
36. 17 DecThe “Citizens” as Children or Bullies
37. 17 DecA Pro-Freedom Medical Oath
38. 16 DecWhich conspiracy theories should you believe?
39. 16 DecI asked ChatGPT to write songs about Public Choice…
40. 16 DecPitfalls with the Hippocratic Oath and the Woke Oath
41. 15 DecSetting the Record Straight on Ivermectin
42. 15 DecMisusing Chesterton’s Fence
43. 14 DecCall it “wages”
44. 14 DecCan you raise a family on one income?
45. 13 DecGood News on Inflation
46. 13 DecMain Street and Wall Street
47. 13 DecAdvancing the Flat Tax Revolution
48. 12 DecDid Iran Really Execute Mohsen Shekari?
49. 11 DecIs macroeconomics in its infancy?
50. 11 DecEconomic Education and AI
51. 10 DecCartoonish Putinist Economics
52. 10 DecFrom Silicon Valley to Colombia
53. 10 DecGreat Moments in Due Diligence
54. 9 DecStand your ground
55. 9 DecWhat Productivity-Pay Gap?
56. 8 DecA Century of Irish Economic Independence: “The Celtic Tiger” and Beyond
57. 8 DecHummel on Central Bank Bankruptcy
58. 8 DecWalter Grinder, an appreciation
59. 8 DecUnintended consequences of sanctions
60. 7 DecMoral Hazard and Health Insurance
61. 7 DecIs Sacrificing the Same as Being Sacrificed?
62. 6 DecContent moderation is difficult
63. 6 DecIndustrial Policy Is Attenuated Central Planning
64. 6 DecA Century of Irish Economic Independence
65. 6 DecJeffrey Friedman RIP
66. 5 DecBen Rogge on East-West Trade
67. 4 DecFraud in the PPP: Quelle Surprise!
68. 4 DecQuasi-efficient markets
69. 4 DecI Think Like a Leftist
70. 3 DecPolitical-Economic Reflections on the New Wars
71. 3 DecBiden’s Accomplishments on Immigration
72. 2 DecA Tax Victory in Monterey County
73. 1 DecTighten the Earned Income Tax Credit
74. 1 DecLael Brainard on monetary policy
75. 1 DecUnintended Consequences, Applied
76. 1 DecSenator Markey Takes a Dive

November 2022

1. 30 NovConsequences Unintended and Unanticipated
2. 30 NovWas Robin Hood a utilitarian?
3. 29 NovFearing Leviathans With Feet of Clay
4. 29 NovBuilding a Life
5. 28 NovWe’re Number 5; We’re Number 5
6. 28 NovThe muddled thinking of protectionists
7. 27 NovBuying Failure with Student Loans
8. 27 NovTocqueville on Lawyers and Liberty
9. 26 NovGeorge Selgin on the postwar economy
10. 25 NovHow I-Bond Rates Reset
11. 25 NovVox’s Words and Vox’s Actions
12. 25 NovThe Eccentric Entrepreneur’s Venture
13. 24 NovThe mystery of politics
14. 24 NovLet’s Talk Turkey About Work
15. 23 NovEconomics is Humane
16. 23 NovFiscal Crises in American Cities
17. 22 NovI Want My Society Back
18. 22 NovCanada’s new Conservative leader
19. 22 NovInflation and Unemployment: Good News Isn’t Bad News
20. 21 NovFree Speech, Social Media, and Intellectual Silos
21. 21 NovWhat do you mean by policy lags?
22. 21 NovDavid Friedman on the Social Cost of Carbon
23. 20 NovNatural Gas and American Left-Populism
24. 19 NovJustice for Sherry Chen
25. 19 NovHow Colombia’s new Tax Reform will affect Free Trade Zones
26. 19 NovVox Rights and German Shopping Carts
27. 18 NovHow Wealthy We Are
28. 18 NovWho Will Carry the Classical Liberals?
29. 17 NovGive Gig Workers a Real Break
30. 17 NovThe Cato Institute on monetary reform
31. 17 NovThe Beauty of Gridlock
32. 16 NovThe Bad News from Taxachusetts
33. 16 NovThe Incredible Conceit of the State
34. 15 NovMonetary reforms, demand shocks, and modern macroeconomics
35. 14 NovEthan Ilzetzki on monetary policy
36. 14 NovNewspeak and Doubleplusgood Duckspeakers
37. 14 NovAn Economics Nobel for and by Central Bankers
38. 14 NovGender, Race, and the Economy: Social Constructs All
39. 12 NovCrypto regulation bleg
40. 12 NovCalculus, Self-Interest, and Good Intentions
41. 11 NovHe Who Seeks Revenge Digs Two Graves
42. 11 NovPoliticians’ Self-Interest and Dishonesty
43. 11 NovWal-Mart and the Worst Case Scenario
44. 11 NovInflation Has Fallen
45. 10 NovThe “anomalies” keep piling up
46. 10 NovPeter Thiel Misses the Small Picture
47. 9 NovBureaucrats impeded by bureaucracy
48. 8 NovThe Essence of Regulation
49. 8 NovDid Land Speculators Make the United States of America?
50. 7 NovFive perspectives on Fed losses
51. 7 NovDid the Boskin Commission Lie About Inflation?
52. 6 NovWhy so glum (part 2)
53. 6 NovSorry, But Your Vote Doesn’t Count
54. 6 NovGo With the Regs or Go to Jail
55. 6 NovWhy Republicans Are Now Getting Heavily into Election Integrity Issues
56. 5 NovProud Ignorance and the Possibility of a Free Society
57. 5 NovThe Limits to Growth?
58. 4 NovThe doves were wrong
59. 4 NovIndustrial Policy, Shortages, and Supply
60. 4 NovMyths of Economic Inequality
61. 3 NovLower-Income Americans are Taxed Much Less Heavily Than Lower-Income Europeans
62. 2 NovFive new Manhattans
63. 2 NovA Way for Biden to Help Black People
64. 1 NovAppropriate Penalties for Assaulting Politicians and Their Relatives
65. 1 NovIn Defense of the Nation-State

October 2022

1. 31 OctThe libertarian solution
2. 31 OctInvisible Fangs
3. 30 OctLessons from the Russian gas debacle
4. 29 OctGerman Gas and Knowledge Problems
5. 28 OctFascism’s Words AND Deeds
6. 28 OctShirley Svorny RIP
7. 27 OctPersistent inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon
8. 27 OctHazony’s Uncharitable Conservatism
9. 27 OctCalifornia’s Laffer Curve
10. 26 OctThe Pennsylvania Debate on the Minimum Wage
11. 25 OctLowest-Skilled Migrant Workers are Not Displacing American Workers
12. 25 OctThe truth about Trump and Truss
13. 25 OctTaking Over the Economy
14. 24 OctDavid Friedman on Special Pleading
15. 24 OctBody Snatchers and Regulatory Capture
16. 24 OctSupply Down, Price Capped, Then What?
17. 23 OctDrain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
18. 23 OctGalileo would understand
19. 23 OctWhat Happens When Economics Becomes Religion?
20. 23 OctLiz Truss and Libertarianism
21. 21 OctCooperation on Water Use without Higher Prices
22. 21 OctThe policy lag puzzle
23. 21 OctGuns and Butter
24. 20 OctGood News on State Taxes
25. 20 OctIndustrial Policy on Parade
26. 19 OctRoberts and Zuegel on Argentine Inflation and Crypto
27. 19 OctMoney to burn?
28. 19 OctE-ska-nomics of Immigration
29. 18 OctLife Magazine on USSR in 1943
30. 17 OctGradualism turned out to be a mistake
31. 17 OctCanadian Cows’ Comparative Advantage
32. 17 OctIdentity Politics on the Right Too
33. 16 OctExpensive Prescription Drugs Are a Bargain
34. 16 OctA Despot Needs Democratic Support
35. 16 OctAsk What Changed
36. 15 OctWho could have foreseen this?
37. 15 OctDoes the Texas Homicide Conviction Rate for Illegal Immigrants Exceed the Rate for Native-Born Americans in Texas?
38. 15 OctA Different Way of Thinking
39. 14 OctSterling’s- and Everybody’s- Crisis
40. 14 OctDivided Government: Hopeful or Hurtful?
41. 13 OctBrad DeLong’s 20th century
42. 13 OctE-ska-nomics 101
43. 13 OctRearden Teaches Moral Reasoning to “Wet Nurse”
44. 12 OctMichael McConnell’s Version of Federalism
45. 12 OctGovernments do not stabilize markets
46. 10 OctAn Economics Nobel for and by Central Bankers
47. 10 OctTwo Economic Facts and One Obfuscation
48. 10 OctAre you certain that the Fed has tightened?
49. 10 OctHank Rearden’s Trial Scene
50. 8 OctTell the truth (lessons from Iran and Iraq)
51. 8 OctHenderson on Gray’s Arbitrary Lines
52. 8 OctNot Yet the End of History
53. 7 OctIndustrial Policy: A Fatal Conceit for Left AND Right
54. 7 OctOur Amazing Somewhat-free Economy
55. 6 OctBetter call a rules utilitarian
56. 5 OctOn Taxing the Rich: An A-Ha! Moment
57. 4 OctThoughts on the neoliberal wave
58. 4 OctTake That, Dr. Fauci!
59. 4 OctConquer, Kill, Loot, If You Like It
60. 3 OctTwo Important Points on GDP and Economic Growth
61. 3 OctJacob Soll’s “free market”
62. 2 OctKrugman Talks Sense on Housing
63. 2 OctMoney, Kings, and Juan de Mariana
64. 2 OctPrivatize Migratory Birds
65. 2 OctPeople who adhere to cultural norms
66. 1 OctHong Kong and John Cowperthwaite

September 2022

1. 30 SepBack in the DDR
2. 29 SepDon’t Trade American for Chinese Central Planning
3. 28 SepWorld Bank President Gets a Taste of “Science”
4. 28 Sep“Great” Moments in Aribitrage
5. 28 SepTime to pay the piper?
6. 27 SepAyn Rand on Unsolicited Advice
7. 27 SepYIMBY’s surprising win in California
8. 26 SepManure, Methane, and Mercantilism
9. 25 SepConcise Encyclopedia of Economics in Iran
10. 25 SepZoning Reform Backfires
11. 25 SepThe (political) equilibrium interest rate
12. 24 SepElinor Ostrom, Steven Cheung, the 5-1 Error
13. 24 SepAtlas Shrugged on Child Labor
14. 23 SepAxios Badly Misstates Malpass’s View on Global Warming
15. 23 SepWhat Selling Cars Suggests About a Free Society
16. 23 SepEurope’s Destructive Energy Policies
17. 23 SepShould we read dead economists?
18. 22 SepAdam Smith where you least expect him.
19. 22 SepWikipedia on Aaron Director
20. 21 SepMartha’s Migrants
21. 21 SepThe city without zoning
22. 20 SepRemembering Basil Yamey
23. 20 SepFrancisco d’Anconia’s Speech on Money
24. 19 SepTolerance Does Not (Necessarily) Equal Approval
25. 19 SepHow Trustworthy is Wikipedia
26. 19 SepDonald Kohn on The Money Illusion
27. 18 SepJones Act: A Great Protectionist Success
28. 18 SepInflation Has Peaked.
29. 18 SepWalter Block’s Principle of Opposition
30. 17 SepThe open society and its enemies
31. 17 SepPeace as Profitable Business
32. 17 SepAngus Deaton on Getting More People Into College
33. 16 SepWednesday, Black and White
34. 16 SepIt Looks Like Putin Cannot Lose
35. 16 SepA Tariff Is a Tax
36. 15 SepMinor crimes in Alabama
37. 15 SepPhil Magness on Kevin Kruse, Nancy MacLean, Hans-Herman Hoppe, and Covid
38. 14 SepStudent Loan Forgiveness: The Libertarian Response?
39. 14 SepU.S. Demand Drives the Drug Market
40. 12 SepStabilizing the economy
41. 12 SepInternalizing a Trash Externality
42. 12 SepInflation: Why Didn’t We Think of That Before?
43. 12 SepPublic Externalities, Private Solutions
44. 11 SepEconomic Freedom Falls Dramatically Worldwide
45. 11 SepFree-Marketeers, ‘Extremism’ and an Uneven Playing Field in Latin America
46. 11 SepLong Live the King (My President)!
47. 10 SepAre Chinese nationalists woke?
48. 10 SepSociology as Useless as “Naturology”
49. 10 SepThe Business of Human Rights
50. 9 SepThe Road to Serfdom is Paved by Conservatives
51. 9 SepThe Aristocracy of Pull
52. 8 SepBrad DeLong’s Strange Concept of Market Failure
53. 8 SepSolidarity
54. 7 SepPerfectly Imperfect
55. 7 SepSchool Lockdowns Will Kill
56. 6 SepWokism in the developing world
57. 6 SepMake Work Pay Again
58. 5 SepYou Didn’t Build That
59. 5 SepThe Scourge of Rent Control
60. 4 SepIn praise of slackers?
61. 4 SepWhy Raw Milk Matters
62. 3 SepThe Right of Revolution
63. 2 SepRecessions and corrections
64. 2 SepBetsy Bailey RIP
65. 2 SepOne of these things is not like the other one…
66. 1 SepWho’s Got the Moves Like Marin?
67. 1 SepHigh Quality Oranges and High Quality Hotels

August 2022

1. 31 AugThe Economist and the economists
2. 31 AugAdam Smith was right
3. 30 AugTimothy Taylor on Medicare Advantage
4. 30 AugForgiveness Expectations
5. 30 AugThe Cost-Price Illusion
6. 30 AugNeel Kashkari’s schandenfreude
7. 29 AugIn memory of Jean Baechler
8. 29 AugInquisitions for Good Reasons
9. 29 AugProspects for a soft landing?
10. 28 AugAffidavit: NYT , WSJ , Other Criteria
11. 28 AugInflation Last Time
12. 28 AugDistrict Attorneys Allege ADA Shakedown
13. 27 AugFinancial Bubbles and Austrian Business Cycle Theory
14. 27 AugStop Moralizing Inflation
15. 26 AugConsumption taxes
16. 26 AugPluralism and the Scientific Process
17. 26 AugDid Big Government Get Smaller in the 1980s and 1990s?
18. 25 AugYour New Student Debt
19. 25 AugBlind Faith Baloney
20. 25 AugSocialists’ Claims About Socialism 3
21. 25 AugLeft and Right More Similar, in Hate Too
22. 24 AugOur hidden taxes on thrift
23. 24 AugTrade-off: The Statocrats’ Revealed Preference
24. 24 AugLibertarian Policy? That’s Nuts!!!
25. 24 AugWithout Government, Who Would Destroy Poor People’s Homes?
26. 23 AugWhat would it mean to abolish the Bank of Canada?
27. 23 AugA Libertarian Dilemma
28. 23 AugPer Bylund’s Austrian Primer
29. 22 AugWild Problems: Homebuying Edition
30. 22 AugSocialists’ Claims About Socialism 2
31. 21 AugHow much choice do you want?
32. 21 AugPolitical Economy of the Alex-Joneses
33. 21 AugLaws, Theories, and Norms
34. 20 AugSocialists’ Claims About Socialism
35. 20 AugBob Barro and David Ricardo
36. 20 AugThe IRS Shows Its Guns
37. 19 AugMonetary conflation
38. 19 AugThinking Historically as History Unfolds
39. 19 AugThe Relationship Between Budget Deficits and Interest Rates–and a Fun Story
40. 18 AugA tiger by the tail
41. 17 AugTwo Lessons of the War in Ukraine
42. 17 AugNetworks, Resilience, and Norms: Ferguson’s Doom (continued)
43. 17 AugWhy We Can’t Trust the Covid Death Statistics
44. 16 Aug“We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order!”
45. 15 AugSwitzerland’s secret sauce
46. 15 AugWhat is History?
47. 15 AugThink Locally, Act Globally
48. 14 AugLibertarian monetary policy bleg
49. 14 AugModels of the State: The Economist Sees Red
50. 13 AugCapitalism and the First Industrial Revolution
51. 13 AugAn Interview Edith Kuiper about A Herstory of Economics
52. 13 AugThe “Shrink the Economy” Act
53. 12 AugThe paradox of “restrictive financial conditions”
54. 12 AugThe Rich and the Politically Powerful
55. 11 AugHollywood and reality
56. 11 AugLabor shortages: demographics or government regulation?
57. 10 AugMonthly versus Annual Inflation Data
58. 10 AugThe Search of Trump’s Home + the 5th Amendment
59. 10 AugKevin Corcoran on Government Capacities versus Government Priorities
60. 9 AugWhat do you see?
61. 8 AugIMMENSELY confusing
62. 8 AugEconomic Reflections on Abortion
63. 8 AugSenate Democrats Understand Covid Tradeoffs
64. 7 AugWhat Would You Do For a Klondike Bar?
65. 7 AugDoes the Market Fail to Respond to Localized Demands?
66. 6 AugThe Industrial Revolution: Who Planned It?
67. 6 AugThe Case Against Compulsory Universal Standards
68. 5 AugBarro’s dubious recession call
69. 5 AugWe Always Buy Local and the Contrary
70. 5 AugHayek’s Atavism Thesis
71. 5 AugNo, a Planned Economy Can’t Actually Work.
72. 5 AugESG Feeds Inflation, Hurts Economic Growth
73. 4 AugYou Don’t Want it If You Don’t Get it
74. 4 AugIn Memorium: Geoffrey Brennan
75. 4 AugInflation Reduction Act Will Increase Taxes for Most People
76. 3 AugPublic opinion is a slippery concept
77. 3 AugDefinitions of Recession
78. 2 AugHistory lessons
79. 2 AugIncentives Work Even for Bureaucracies
80. 2 AugPeople Before Profits or the Converse?

July 2022

1. 31 JulKissinger’s Vision of Society
2. 31 JulThe Industrial Revolution and the Colonial Conundrum
3. 31 JulRaise taxes on investment?
4. 30 JulThe Efficacy of Worker Cooperatives
5. 30 JulCorcoran on Methodology and the Minimum Wage
6. 29 JulHoover’s Video on Price Controls
7. 29 JulNudged into the oncoming lane
8. 29 JulInflation and the Fed’s Failure to Act
9. 28 JulThe Roots of Black Economic Progress
10. 28 JulA good press conference
11. 27 JulThe Myth of the Marshall Plan
12. 26 JulWhat is monetary policy?
13. 26 JulPoor Altruistic Statocrats Who Have So Little Power!
14. 26 JulBiden Is Practically Engineering a Recession
15. 25 JulIs high unemployment inevitable?
16. 25 JulEfficient and Inefficient Rationing
17. 24 JulCanada’s Gas Prices are Less Than California’s
18. 24 JulConsumer Sovereignty or Producer Sovereignty?
19. 24 JulHayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue
20. 23 JulEconomizing Non-Profits
21. 21 JulWhen policies are not credible
22. 21 JulCorcoran on Industrial Policy and Central Planning
23. 21 JulThe Habit of Criticism and Truth
24. 20 JulTeamwork and Profiteering
25. 19 JulThanks for nothing!
26. 19 JulStar Wars and the Rebel’s Dilemma
27. 19 JulSocialists’ Claims About Capitalism 3
28. 19 JulGreat Moments in Industrial Policy
29. 18 JulHow do you know if AD is too high?
30. 18 JulThe Fed’s Share of Public Debt: Worsening Withdrawal Symptoms?
31. 18 JulThe Wonder of Economic Growth Yet Again
32. 18 JulCritical Race Theory in Schools
33. 17 JulWhy a wealth tax was abandoned in Britain.
34. 17 JulPopulist Rulers Cannot Lose Elections
35. 15 JulWork Hard and Read Hoffer
36. 15 JulThe surveillance state
37. 15 Jul“Shortage” of Dijon Mustard and Supply Chains
38. 14 JulHighlights of The Mayor of Castro Street
39. 13 JulStagflation and boomflation
40. 13 JulKeep Classy, Tories
41. 13 JulSocialist Claims About Capitalism 2
42. 13 JulThe TOGETHER Trial of Ivermectin Isn’t All That Together
43. 12 JulAsymmetric Loss Function in Buying Food for My Cottage Stay
44. 12 JulSchumpeter’s Most Famous Book
45. 11 JulWhy do macroeconomists keep changing their model?
46. 11 JulKevin Corcoran on Economics in Fiction
47. 10 JulGovernment Externalities and the Friedman Criterion
48. 10 JulSocialists’ Claims About Capitalism
49. 9 JulShould the AEA Have Conferences in Canada?
50. 8 JulPopularism and freedom
51. 8 JulChild Care: Massive Benefit for “the Economy”?
52. 7 JulWhy macro forecasting is difficult
53. 6 JulIt’s about time
54. 5 JulGut Feelings
55. 5 JulNonprofits and Economic Calculation
56. 5 JulIntelligent Reply from the US Oil & Gas Association
57. 4 JulIdeas don’t stay discredited forever
58. 4 JulThe Positive Externalities of the American Revolution
59. 3 JulThe “two negative quarters” myth
60. 3 JulThe Authoritarian “Thought of Xi Jinping”
61. 2 JulValuable Service or Exploitation?
62. 2 JulWe’re the Only Country . . .
63. 1 JulThe risk of recession
64. 1 JulWhat Caused Gas Prices to Jump?
65. 1 JulCan the State Care About People’s Lives?

June 2022

1. 30 JunKevin Corcoran on the Subjectivity of Advantage and Privilege
2. 30 JunMy Review of Steven Koonin’s Unsettled
3. 30 JunThe Peculiar Logic of Collectivist-Speak
4. 29 JunNIMBY, YIMBY or MIMBY?
5. 29 JunOpportunity Cost Matters
6. 28 JunWhat do you actually believe?
7. 28 JunThe Unjoined Debate
8. 27 JunBlue votes, red policy
9. 26 JunKrugman on the effects of a hot economy
10. 25 JunSecond Amendment: Beyond Politics or Against Politics?
11. 25 JunShareholders´ Activism: The impact of Blockchain in Corporate Governance
12. 25 JunWhere Has Michael Drake Been for the Last 50 Years
13. 25 JunEnd the Tax on Phantom Gains
14. 24 JunTo succeed, one must recognize success
15. 24 JunThe Supply-Side Headwinds that Could Cause a Recession
16. 23 JunMarxists vs. Austrians on Imperialism
17. 23 JunKilling a 5th, and Big, Bird
18. 23 JunSlippery Slopes Exist: The Case of No-Fly Lists
19. 22 JunWhat do YOU do on Windfall Day?
20. 22 JunKilling 4 birds with one stone
21. 22 JunCompetition as a Process
22. 21 JunThis Will Likely End Badly
23. 21 JunGlobal warming: Are both sides wrong?
24. 20 JunIs there a case for higher inflation?
25. 19 JunAll the king’s horses, and all the king’s men – The Genoa Conference and the Gold Standard
26. 18 JunBiden’s Short-termism Not Surprising
27. 17 JunWhy so glum?
28. 17 JunWonderful Consequences of Economic Growth
29. 16 JunWhat happened to good news?
30. 16 JunDo General Subsidies Substantially Increase Demand for Energy?
31. 15 JunBorder Militarization and Austrian Capital Theory
32. 14 JunThe woke are feeding on themselves
33. 13 JunIs the Fed Likely to Go Bankrupt?
34. 13 JunThe Fed knew
35. 13 JunThe EU Government Looks to a Beacon of Protectionism
36. 13 Jun6% of Americans are woke extremists
37. 12 JunHooper on Chudov on Vaccines Against Variants
38. 11 JunNationalism and the global economy
39. 11 JunBolsonaro and Trump: Are Elections Important?
40. 10 JunEconomists’ Views on Price Controls: The Good News and the Bad
41. 10 JunSupply is more elastic than you think
42. 10 JunWhy so many Covid deaths?
43. 9 JunJohnny Carson Interviews Ayn Rand
44. 9 JunFind the Date of OSHA
45. 8 JunOne charger to charge them all…
46. 8 JunQuestions About Tolerance
47. 7 JunWhat the FICA?
48. 7 JunIs Europe also overheating?
49. 6 JunDon’t Help Others Because You Might Benefit Too
50. 6 JunA Day in the Life of Coastal California
51. 6 JunImmigration and “Brain Drain”
52. 6 JunAbortion: Walmart, Lowe’s, and Your Oil Deliveries
53. 5 JunWas Milton Friedman a Nobody?
54. 5 JunFiremen and arsonists
55. 4 JunThe other F-word
56. 3 JunThe Wonders of Economic Growth
57. 3 JunIllegal Meals and de Jasay’s Model of the State
58. 2 JunLimiting Short Term Health Insurance Prevents People from Getting Health Insurance
59. 1 JunKirk’s Insights on Climate Risk
60. 1 JunData: Don’t Get Your Hopes Too High
61. 1 JunIs fiscal policy fairer?

May 2022

1. 31 MayThe DeAngelo, Kalt, Henderson, and Topel Appreciation of Demsetz
2. 31 MayThat Which is Unseen: Rental Housing Edition
3. 30 MayThe Wonder of Economic Growth, Part Deux
4. 30 May20 Books to Read in Your 20’s
5. 29 MayFond Memories of Southwest Airlines
6. 29 MayNeglecting Prices Is a Big Analytical Error
7. 28 MayPaul Joskow on Harold Demsetz
8. 28 MayWhat “obvious” reason?
9. 27 MayWhat the Economy of a Just War Should Be
10. 27 MayNeoliberalism and design
11. 26 MayWho are the homeless?
12. 26 MayOn the limits of Tiebout competition
13. 25 MayIs Government Inefficiency Desirable?
14. 25 MayIs pilot error a possibility?
15. 24 MayHorrible FDA Regulation of Infant Formula
16. 24 MayThe Wonder of Economic Growth, Part One
17. 24 MayRemembering David Theroux
18. 24 MayExxon and Climate Change: Reasonable Doubt?
19. 24 MayCalifornia housing prices and homelessness
20. 23 MayHow Londoners Survive Without a Food Czar
21. 22 MayHayek on Privilege
22. 22 MayIs money getting tighter?
23. 21 MayA New Path for Post-COVID Policy
24. 20 MayThe Role of Privilege
25. 20 MayTheory and empirical evidence
26. 19 MayIs California a good place to live?
27. 19 MayIndex State Tax Brackets Now
28. 19 MayExxon and Climate Change: What is Known and What is Not Known
29. 17 MayShould President Biden Cancel Student Debt?
30. 17 MayConfusion about Energy Prices and Inflation
31. 16 MayThink big, but don’t buy Greenland
32. 16 MayAMA Proudly Beats Back Competition
33. 16 MayWoody Holton’s Not So Hidden History: Part 2
34. 15 MayGeorge H. Smith, RIP
35. 15 MayThe CMS is Right and the WSJ is Wrong
36. 14 MayThe problem with fiscal policy
37. 14 MayUnions Exist to Look After Their Members, Baseball edition
38. 13 MayWoody Holton’s Not So Hidden History
39. 12 May“Illegal Birthday Party”: Neoliberalism, For Sure
40. 12 MayInflation is worse than it looks
41. 11 MayHow Could Inflation Ever Be Stopped?
42. 11 MayInflation Falls
43. 11 MayDo all Miami Locals Have the Same Interests?
44. 11 MayFirst they came for the communists . . .
45. 10 MayWipe Out the Benjamins?
46. 10 May“Romance, Realism, and Economic Reform:” A Tribute to Professor Richard Wagner
47. 9 MayChild Subsidies versus More Immigration
48. 9 MayAmerica’s most libertarian governor?
49. 9 MayWomen’s Own Bodies
50. 9 MayRussia vs Ukraine:Will it disrupt energy supplies to Latin America?
51. 8 MayReminiscences of Hayek
52. 8 MayYoung Man: the Janitors!
53. 7 MayNo More Shortage of Labor Than of Diamonds
54. 7 MayDon’t Just Stand There: Undo Something
55. 7 MayEnding transitory inflation is easy
56. 6 MayThe FDA’s Extreme Innumeracy
57. 6 MaySteer the bus AND straighten the road
58. 5 MayCentral Planning of Water Levels
59. 5 MayThe Importance of Being Ethical
60. 4 MayIdentity Politics in Politics
61. 4 MayMercatus Center Friedman symposium
62. 4 MayCecilia Rouse on Biden Economic Policy, Part III
63. 3 MayThe ABCs of Electoral Politics
64. 2 MayCecilia Rouse on Biden Economic Policy, Part II
65. 1 MayCecilia Rouse on Biden Economic Policy, Part I
66. 1 MayAt Least Three False Ideas in One Story
67. 1 MayAvoid snap judgments

April 2022

1. 30 AprAsymmetric Information and Student Loan Responsibility
2. 30 AprCreative Destruction Comes for my Drinkworks
3. 29 AprStocks for the Long Run
4. 29 AprAgeism in Running Races
5. 28 AprWho’s Responsible for Student Loans?
6. 28 AprEnvironmental Despair Springs Eternal, Part 4: The Invisible Hand’s Green Thumb
7. 28 AprThe man who was correct
8. 27 AprThe Intricate Economic Effects of Apartheid
9. 27 AprThe CEA’s Baby Steps on Occupational Licensing
10. 26 AprThe power to subsidize is the power to destroy
11. 26 AprOn “Technopopulism”
12. 26 AprThe Fed 3.0
13. 25 AprUnderstating Progress: Economic Report of the President on Falling Poverty
14. 25 AprEnvironmental Despair Springs Eternal, Part 3: Mentors of the Modern Environmentalist Movement
15. 25 AprNational Conservatism Wants to Use the Ring of Power
16. 24 AprDave Mayers RIP
17. 24 AprJason Furman was wrong
18. 24 AprThink Correctly or the State Will Punish You
19. 23 AprFriendly Advice to Journalists and their Editors
20. 23 AprJason Furman is right
21. 22 AprDon’t Destroy What’s Good
22. 22 AprEnvironmental Despair Springs EternalPart 2: Malthusianism in the Industrial Age
23. 22 AprThen and now
24. 21 AprPrimitive Communism or Primitive Property Rights?
25. 21 AprMandated Work Hours: A Bad Idea
26. 21 Apr10 Minutes of Freedom on an Airline
27. 20 AprNIRA redux
28. 20 AprEnvironmental Despair Springs Eternal, Part 1: Ancient Green Ideas.
29. 19 AprHenderson’s Criticisms and Appreciations of John Kenneth Galbraith
30. 19 AprA “time capsule” from Mont Pelerin, 1947
31. 18 AprGood News on Employment
32. 18 AprThe dog that didn’t bark
33. 18 AprFoyle’s War: Sunflower
34. 16 AprIt’s the stupidity, stupid
35. 15 AprA Tax-Based Attack on Capital and Labor
36. 14 AprBadly Misleading Inflation Headlines
37. 14 AprRemoving ego from monetary policy
38. 14 AprGasoline Prices and the Primitive Man (and Woman)
39. 14 AprStarbucks Vs. a Woke Brigade?
40. 13 AprCorcoran on Collective Punishment
41. 13 AprStrange Unanchored Pragmatism
42. 13 AprShould we have free trade in a dangerous world?
43. 12 AprWhy Sanctions Rarely Work
44. 12 AprEconomics and Bourgeois Propaganda
45. 11 AprCarl Menger versus Adam Smith
46. 11 AprOnly One Way to Be “President of All Syldavians”
47. 11 AprDon’t conflate nationalism with patriotism
48. 10 AprMaking Good Economic Decisions Doesn’t Always Mean Being Cheap
49. 10 AprNo Shortage of Labor for Walmart
50. 9 AprNominal GDP as a policy guide
51. 8 AprI Should Have Known I Would Be an Economist
52. 8 AprWhom can you trust?
53. 7 AprRhoads on Unemployed Men
54. 6 AprHidden Price Increases
55. 6 AprMenger on Price Formation
56. 5 AprIs there a carbon tax in our future?
57. 5 AprThree Meanings of “Liberal Democracy”
58. 5 AprThe Slap Heard Round the World
59. 5 AprSocialist Judge: A Contradiction in Terms
60. 4 AprHostility and Coercion are Not the Same Thing
61. 3 AprMick Jagger’s Favorite Economist
62. 3 AprAll that glitters . . .
63. 3 AprEcon101 Lessons from St. Paul
64. 2 AprThe Fed Is a Failed Central Planner
65. 2 AprThe Economics of Early Decision
66. 1 AprExchange as the Basis of Everything Social

March 2022

1. 31 MarBack to gold?
2. 30 MarCarl Menger on Value
3. 29 MarWhat caused the high inflation?
4. 29 MarIs There a Swing of the Pendulum?
5. 28 MarWhat Should be the Law on Sharing and Viewing Child Pornography?
6. 27 MarTrust, but verify
7. 27 MarTacit Assumptions and Expert Failure: A Personal Story
8. 26 MarHenderson Review of Steven Rhoads
9. 26 MarCoordination Problems in College Admissions
10. 25 MarHenderson Review of Scott Atlas Book
11. 25 MarBuchanan, de Jasay, and Utilitarianism
12. 25 MarLike sending a check to Putin
13. 24 MarLeave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich
14. 24 MarIvermectin and Statistical Significance
15. 23 MarYes, we can “whip inflation now”
16. 23 MarIn a Fast-Moving Pandemic, Use What We Have
17. 23 MarIs there a “right” angle to industrial policy?
18. 22 MarRestarting the Keystone Pipeline TODAY will lower gas prices TODAY.
19. 21 MarWhy the Fed should hit its target
20. 21 MarThe Wonder of Economic Growth
21. 21 MarJouvenel on Modern Barbarians
22. 21 MarThe Kids Are Not Alright
23. 21 MarWant to help Ukraine? Beware virtue signaling…
24. 20 MarThe Division of Labor is Limited by Government
25. 20 MarIndustrial policy and wish lists
26. 18 MarOne Good Biden Move on Oil and Two More Suggestions
27. 18 MarShould bank examiners do monetary policy?
28. 17 MarAlex Tabarrok on Covid Failures and Successes, Part II
29. 17 MarThe Traitor Was Paid to Cook for the Russians
30. 16 MarAlex Tabarrok on Covid Failures and Successes, Part I
31. 16 MarThe Fed abandons average inflation targeting
32. 15 MarArtificially low rates? Yes, finally.
33. 14 MarConstraints on the Feds
34. 14 MarNo sanctions without globalization
35. 14 Mar“Where did we go wrong? Is it our fault?”
36. 14 MarQuinn Slobodian and some unlikely admirers of the Mont Pelerin Society
37. 13 MarJames Watt: “Bringing the Treasures of the Abyss to the Summit of the Earth.”
38. 12 MarThat Awful Russian Oligarch
39. 11 MarThe Promise of Bitcoin
40. 11 MarHow confident should you be?
41. 11 MarThe U-Curve Decline Was Less Than Many Economists Think
42. 11 MarA vindication of the real Gordon Gekko
43. 10 MarEuropean Leviathans Censoring RT
44. 9 MarDid the 2017 Tax Cut Leave the Majority of Americans Behind?
45. 9 MarDon’t blame the hippies
46. 9 MarThe Trial of Benjamin Netanyahu
47. 9 MarShotgun Sanctions and Extraordinary Power
48. 8 MarIs Nikole Hannah-Jones Right?
49. 8 MarJoel Kotkin’s Criticism of Libertarians and the Cato Institute
50. 7 MarWhat Dutch disease?
51. 7 MarAntonio Martino’s Liberal Legacy
52. 6 MarLet’s Pay For Reparations By Taxing Elite Colleges
53. 5 MarForeign policy is hard
54. 4 MarDo you remember 1973?
55. 4 MarA Populist Attack on Big Tech
56. 4 MarPutin Repeats an Old Protectionist Canard
57. 3 MarThe First Casualty in War
58. 3 MarPaul Cantor RIP
59. 3 MarPutin: The Difficult Life of a Dictator
60. 2 MarHeading down north, part 2
61. 1 MarCost/Benefit Analysis of Bitcoin
62. 1 MarRecipes for Student Reading Groups: The Many Uses of Are Economists Basically Immoral?
63. 1 MarNot So SWIFT

February 2022

1. 28 FebConfusion about “overheating”
2. 28 FebGeneralizing Huemer
3. 28 FebLessons from the Economic Sanctions Against Russia
4. 27 FebA Tribute to Bryan Caplan
5. 27 FebRevisiting the Case for Free Trade
6. 25 FebThere is no such thing as Russian public opinion
7. 24 FebA SWIFT and sure way to punish Russia
8. 24 FebDo These Politicians Hear Themselves?
9. 24 FebThe rise and fall and rise of nationalism
10. 24 FebThe Efficacy of RCTs: Actual Empirics
11. 23 FebDo we need labels to think?
12. 23 FebThe Non-Shopper Problem
13. 22 FebYes I Can
14. 22 FebCollege: How to Make the Most of It
15. 21 FebKevin Corcoran on the Importance of Framing
16. 21 FebIs FAIT a mystery cult?
17. 21 FebA Fond Farewell to EconLog
18. 21 FebThe battle of words: Mazzucato on Fink
19. 21 FebCovid-19 Vaccines and Cost-Benefit Analysis
20. 20 FebAn Everyday Mask Tragedy
21. 20 FebLet Freedom Rein in Big Tech
22. 18 FebJanet Bufton on the Canadian Truckers’ Protest
23. 18 FebIs money (nominally) neutral?
24. 18 FebChild Abuse by the State
25. 17 FebAre Your Views Canadian-Government Approved?
26. 17 FebThe pessimists were correct about Covid
27. 17 FebEphemeral Externalities
28. 16 FebRyan Bourne’s Ironic Mention of Tyler Cowen
29. 16 FebThe Dehiring of Richard Lewontin
30. 16 FebP.J. O’Rourke, RIP
31. 15 FebHeading down north
32. 15 FebNo One Cared About My Spreadsheets
33. 14 FebA Game of Margins
34. 14 FebIf the Welfare State Is So Small, Can We Just Get Rid of It?
35. 14 FebFord and GM: Bearers of Socialist Culture?
36. 13 FebWhere the Fed went wrong
37. 13 FebComparing Two Predictions of Inflation
38. 13 FebThe Sacred Word of “Sustainability”
39. 12 FebThe inflation outlook is getting worse
40. 11 FebThe Consensus on Price Controls
41. 11 FebDo Used Car Prices Vindicate Adam Smith?
42. 11 FebCutting Family Ties
43. 11 FebThe Canadian Truckers’ Attack on Freedom of Movement
44. 10 FebStraight Outta Compton
45. 10 FebPolitician Stands Up for Economic Freedom
46. 10 FebSanctions and Asylum
47. 9 FebThe Witch Hunts Continue
48. 9 FebCauses and Consequences of Rent Seeking
49. 9 FebWhy Can’t Everything Be Free?
50. 8 FebPreach What You Practice
51. 8 FebShould the Fed be led by experts?
52. 8 FebHanania Highlights, III
53. 7 FebCompetition Cures a Lot of Ills
54. 7 FebThanks for Less Than Nothing
55. 6 FebThe Work of the One Percent
56. 6 FebNGDP targeting and libertarianism
57. 5 FebSocial movements, diversity, and corporate short-termism
58. 4 FebWake Up and Smell the CAFE
59. 4 FebPurification in China
60. 4 FebThe Fed and climate change
61. 3 FebCaplan at Chicago
62. 3 FebOn productive and counterproductive ways to read
63. 3 FebHanania Highlights, II
64. 2 FebEnclosing Wordle
65. 2 FebCaplan Interviews Hanania
66. 2 FebSelgin is right, but it’s an endless battle
67. 1 FebStossel Interviews Henderson on Inflation
68. 1 FebBen Zycher on Subsidies to Fossil Fuels
69. 1 FebCEOs and Superstars
70. 1 FebInterpersonal Comparisons of Utility
71. 1 FebHanania Highlights, I

January 2022

1. 31 Jan“The Mob Takes the Fifth”
2. 31 JanHypocrisy Versus Social Desirability Bias
3. 29 JanHenderson and Hooper on Choice versus Coercion
4. 29 JanThe “old inflation playbook” still applies
5. 28 JanAffecting People’s Decisions
6. 27 JanIs the US government causing the chip shortage?
7. 27 JanEU Court lifts Intel antitrust fine
8. 27 JanCaplan-Callard, The Case Against Education at U Chicago
9. 27 JanIs the Fed committed to average inflation targeting?
10. 26 JanThe Philosophy of Roadkill
11. 26 JanThe Acton-Creighton Correspondence
12. 25 JanCOVID Paycheck Protection Program: Promises Not Kept
13. 25 JanBryan Caplan on prices and shortages
14. 25 JanInflation Is Still Too Low
15. 24 JanMatthews Interviews Henderson on Price Controls
16. 24 JanNo, “the market” isn’t worried about “the Fed”
17. 24 JanLabor Econ Versus the World: Essays on the World’s Greatest Market
18. 24 JanA Simple Model of War and Peace
19. 23 JanShould Companies Be Deeply Obsessed with Helping Customers?
20. 23 JanKevin Erdmann was right
21. 23 JanRegenerative Agriculture and the Denial of Comparative Advantage: Part 3
22. 23 JanThe Case Against Price Controls
23. 22 JanA rose by any other name
24. 21 JanThe Italian Presidency
25. 20 JanWill California’s Government Raise Taxes Even More?
26. 20 JanWas MMT influential?
27. 20 JanI Win My Education Bet with David Henderson
28. 19 JanJonathan Chait’s Mistaken Analogy
29. 19 JanI Lose a Bet with Bryan Caplan
30. 19 JanProtectionism doesn’t protect jobs (in aggregate)
31. 19 JanThe Office of Unreasonable Rules
32. 19 JanIsrael’s UnFauci
33. 18 JanCatering to People’s Needs
34. 18 JanThe Best Argument Against School Closures
35. 18 JanRelative Price Changes and Inflation Propagation
36. 17 JanFlight 447, Britney Spears, and Audi cars
37. 17 JanScott’s Search
38. 17 JanU.S. Subsidies to Fossil Fuels
39. 16 JanThe Land Down Under Goes Even Lower
40. 15 JanTwo types of environmentalism
41. 14 JanGovernment Humanitarianism
42. 14 JanDifferent Shades of Red
43. 13 JanDe Toqueville’s America, Palo Alto Edition
44. 13 JanRCTs and the Status Quo: The Special Relationship
45. 13 JanBorderline cases
46. 13 JanHanania in Austin
47. 13 JanInflation: Rates, Levels, and Time Periods
48. 12 JanRegenerative Agriculture and the Denial of Comparative Advantage: Part 2
49. 12 JanWilliam J. Haga, An Appreciation
50. 11 JanThe dream of a united Europe
51. 11 JanCharge, Baby, Charge
52. 11 JanAn Obscurantist Age?
53. 10 JanReining in Emergency Powers
54. 10 JanThe Good Group
55. 10 JanShould Corporations Be Woke or Fascist?
56. 9 JanWhy I’m a contrarian on fiscal policy
57. 8 JanJohn Madden, Joseph Schumpeter, and Competition
58. 8 JanAnarchy or Not?
59. 8 JanThe Threats to Democracy, Part I
60. 7 JanStop talking about “getting back to 2%”
61. 6 JanGreat Stories and Weak Economics
62. 6 JanThe Davis Parks Experience
63. 5 JanWillingness to Kill
64. 5 JanThe actual case for wage/price controls
65. 5 JanA Discriminating Exception
66. 4 JanUsing the Market to Fight Racial Discrimination, Jackie Robinson edition
67. 4 JanEscalation and Obedience
68. 3 JanJeff Hummel on the Fed’s Treatment of Vault Cash
69. 3 JanThe poison of nationalism
70. 3 JanOvercoming Bias Is the Mother of Science
71. 3 JanWhy Government Should Not “Deliver”
72. 2 JanChoice, Coercion, and Bastiat
73. 1 JanWhere are we making progress?
74. 1 JanPrivatize Education
75. 1 JanA Pedagogical New Year Resolution