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So This Is What It Feels Like to Be a Square 26 Aug 2013 | 07:56 am
All summer I have been dying to take my 8-year-old to a movie, but a bunch of obvious ones (Superman, Wolverine, etc.) were PG-13. So I was happy that I was able to take him to see Percy Jackson today...
DeLong Sees Nothing In the Investment Data That Would Slow Capacity Growth 23 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
Brad DeLong has this habit where he makes it look as if he’s walked through several different strands of evidence, and they all come down squarely on the position he agreed with at the start of his in...
Potpourri 21 Aug 2013 | 06:19 am
==> The other day I had a deadline, so naturally I ended up watching the SNL auditions of both Phil Hartman and John Belushi. The former impressed me much more than the latter. Hartman had a very uniq...
See the Knots the Federal Government Is In, Regarding “Social Cost of Carbon” 20 Aug 2013 | 10:56 pm
This is pretty funny. In my Senate testimony one of the key points I made was that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidelines state that federal agencies are supposed to do cost/benefit calc...
Interesting Narrative on the Heliocentric Theory vs. the Church 19 Aug 2013 | 05:26 am
In a recent offhand remark, George Selgin criticized certain Austrians’ thinking on banking as being akin to “theologians bungling their cosmology” six centuries ago. I asked if George actually had pa...
Potpourri 18 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
==> Totally off-topic, but I would change my gender if I could be Christina Bianco. ==> Nick Rowe strikes back on the definition of “inflation.” I know this isn’t the point Nick was making–and I don’...
Two Sumner Posts That I Thoroughly Enjoyed 16 Aug 2013 | 11:34 am
In this post, Scott hits something that I have been pointing out myself: So let’s review the past year: 1. Keynesians warned us that it would be a huge mistake to adopt fiscal austerity in America. ...
Even Krugman Doesn’t Believe Krugman on Hayek 16 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
In this post, I walked through just how absurd it was when Paul Krugman recently said “…back in the 30s nobody except Hayek would have considered his views a serious rival to those of Keynes…” What’s...
Mike Norman Throws Down the Gauntlet 16 Aug 2013 | 03:56 am
You need to familiarize yourself with this, if you hope to understand my forthcoming response. (Ron Paul et al. are coming to town in one week, so I can’t deal with this just yet. But soon…) P.S. He...
Steve Landsburg, Destroyer of Worlds 15 Aug 2013 | 04:10 am
I stand in awe of Steve Landsburg’s mind, though sometimes I question the uses to which he deploys it. For example, I’m sure the math is correct (given his assumptions) behind his latest, counterintui...
