The Books That Influenced F. A. Hayek
I’m working on a list of the books that influenced F. A. Hayek — read my list here. I’d like to ask readers here for suggested additions to the list and comments or criticisms of the rank ordering. If...
View ArticleObama — Back to Cooper Union
Only the President knows why, but Obama seems most comfortable speaking about how he’s going to run the commanding heights of the economy at the place he knew well from his annual participation in the...
View ArticleElena Kagan & Sonia Sotomayor
Who knew that the express way to the Supreme Court would be through the left wing Princeton history department? More on Kagan’s early career as a young leftist scholar here and here. Barack Obama and...
View Article#1 among ALL books sold at Amazon
Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom is a bestseller again, thanks to today’s Glenn Beck Show on Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. Mises Institute Senior Fellow Yuri Maltsev was one of Glenn’s...
View ArticleThe Beck Bomb
Glenn Beck’s show on Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom featuring Mises Institute Senior Fellows Yuri Maltsev and Tom Woods: — crashed Hayek’s Wikipedia entry. — sent the GOOGLE search phrase “The Road to...
View ArticleTake the Salma Hayek vs Friedrich Hayek Video Challenge
The existential question of our time. Salma Hayek with a snake or Friedrich Hayek with Glenn Beck?
View Article“Macau and China is stable. Washington is not.”
Steve Wynn is mad as hell about Obama and the American political elite: “Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington. That’s where we get surprises every day....
View Article55% of Americans use the word “socialist” to characterize President Obama
If meaning is use, then President Obama is a socialist, and there can’t be any argument about it — if the American people are allowed a vote in the matter. But leftist in the media and academia believe...
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Seeing Is Believing — 20 Miles of Mothballed Lumber Hauling Rail Cars
[UPDATE: Welcome Instapundit readers. Check out the comments section below for additional eyewitness accounts of mile after mile after mile of mothballed rail transport cars in Eastern Colorado,...
View ArticleThe Mother of All Broken Window Fallacies
“We can not run trillion dollar deficits year after year. That is just an impossible one for the market to absorb. The second thing would be, how would we service that debt down the road? Are we...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
“Having a rational discussion with these guys is something like having afternoon tea with a couple of hyperactive ferrets.” — Stephen Williamson Actually, something fun — and remarkable — is happening....
View ArticleBeck, D’Souza, Obama’s father, and socialism
Since WWII perhaps the most potent strain of anti-capitalist, anti-Western ideology has been powered by the conceptions of Hobson and Lenin as much as by those of Marx and the Webbs. On this view,...
View ArticleSee It. Believe It. Google Earth Reveals Malinvestment in Florida
Our understanding is enriched when theoretical principles are illustrated via concrete examples. Take a look at these aerial photos over South Florida and the concept of economically uncompletable...
View ArticlePick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it
National Interest “senior editor” Jacob Heilbrunn gets out the clown makeup to paint Ron Paul as a whacko and Federal Reserve criticism as a PR ploy to stir up the sheep and goats, in the LA Times....
View ArticleSocialist Economic Fallacies Fueled the Monetary Conspiracy which Entranced...
Drug addled mass murderer Jared Loughner was under the spell of monetary and financial conspiracies interlaced with anti-Christian and anti-American calumnies spun out by cynical leftists wishing to...
View ArticleNon-Economic Goods & Boom-Time Increases in both Investment and Consumption
The blogosphere wants to know: during the artificial boom, how can both investment and consumption grow at the same time? There are multiple answers. But one aspect of the answer has not gotten the...
View ArticleAustrian Facts Bring the Death of ‘Normal Science’ in Macroeconomics
A brief period of Kuhnian “normal science” is now over in macroeconomics — the news comes directly from the top guns in the field (see also here, here, here, and here.) What killed it? A series of...
View ArticleReferences for “Austrian Facts Bring the Death of ‘Normal Science’ in...
Below I’ve included some references for my post “Austrian Facts Bring the Death of ‘Normal Science’ in Macroeconomics”. All of them are excellent and most all of them advance essential insights from...
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