Posted by Unknown | 9:08 AM

One of the enduring fantasies of the "libertarian" ideology is that there is a bright line between private-sector economic activit...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:44 AM

From the song " Wamp Wamp (What it Do) " by Clipse: Mildew-ish when I heat it, it turn bluish It cools to a tight wad, the Pyrex i...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:49 PM

Matt Yglesias is in China on a business trip. Matt Yglesias appears to like China very much. He likes their bike lanes . He likes thei...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:37 AM

Paul Krugman recently took on the idea , popular in Republican circles, that Reagan's economic policies reversed a trend of stagnation: ...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:08 PM

Rand Paul on Obama's criticism of BP : "What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of 'I'll...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:50 PM

It is very rare that I entertain feelings of pride regarding my culture and civilization - or even, for that matter, that I even recognize i...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:03 PM

Chris Edwards at the Cato Institute has a blog post called " I cut spending 10% ". Here's how he does it: The savings listed h...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:49 AM

Here's an interesting blog post , which brings up the ominous possibility that our current huge level of unemployment is not "cycli...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:46 PM

io9 has a good primer on the notion of the " technological singularity ," a futurist favorite: The term singularity describes the ...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:15 PM

I've written a lot on this blog about how, if a rising China challenges the global political order than has prevailed since WW2, it wou...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:27 AM

If any publication was the official pamphlet of the Reagan Revolution back in the 1980s and before, that publication would have to be The Na...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:16 PM

In my last post, I declared that the problem with the finance industry is not that it's greedy, but that it's been woefully unproduc...

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