Mises Pieces

Paul Krugman's latest column has been getting some favorable attention, because he forecasts the failure of the Supercommittee, the Obama-Boehner chimera that was supposed to end our deficit woes. The Week cited it enthusiastically, and I quote this excerpt from their quotation:Eventually, one side or the other of that divide will get the kind of popular mandate it needs to resolve our long-run

Mises Pieces

Paul Krugman's latest column has been getting some favorable attention, because he forecasts the failure of the Supercommittee, the Obama-Boehner chimera that was supposed to end our deficit woes. The Week cited it enthusiastically, and I quote this excerpt from their quotation:Eventually, one side or the other of that divide will get the kind of popular mandate it needs to resolve our long-run

That Thing You Do -- Whatever It Is

Okay, a couple of things, more or less quickly.I hadn't intended to write about the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, but then Glenn Greenwald posted this article. Seems there was a big hooraw because Paul Krugman wrote something pointing out that the US has behaved shamefully over the past decade. Krugman was accused of "politicizing" the sacred day, which as Greenwald pointed out

That Thing You Do -- Whatever It Is

Okay, a couple of things, more or less quickly.I hadn't intended to write about the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, but then Glenn Greenwald posted this article. Seems there was a big hooraw because Paul Krugman wrote something pointing out that the US has behaved shamefully over the past decade. Krugman was accused of "politicizing" the sacred day, which as Greenwald pointed out

A Lose-Lose Situation

Professional Leftist Paul Krugman quotes himself:We’ll never know how differently the politics would have played if Obama, instead of systematically echoing and giving credibility to all the arguments of the people who want to destroy him, had actually stood up for a different economic philosophy. But we do know how his actual strategy has worked, and it hasn’t been a success.I've been

A Lose-Lose Situation

Professional Leftist Paul Krugman quotes himself:We’ll never know how differently the politics would have played if Obama, instead of systematically echoing and giving credibility to all the arguments of the people who want to destroy him, had actually stood up for a different economic philosophy. But we do know how his actual strategy has worked, and it hasn’t been a success.I've been