Democrats’ apparent effort to confuse Alaska voters about candidates’ names is reprehensible. But politicians’ routine lying and exploitation of ignorance about policy issues is much worse.
Creating Voter Confusion About Candidates’ Names is Bad – But Exploiting Voter Ignorance About Policy Issues is a Much Bigger Problem
Creating Voter Confusion About Candidates’ Names is Bad – But Exploiting Voter Ignorance About Policy Issues is a Much Bigger Problem
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in economics of information, politics - USA, Public Choice
Porsche and the Nazi Regime
30 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, transport economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
When people think of sports cars, Porsche often comes to mind. Its iconic design makes it instantly recognizable when spotted on the road. From 1962 to 1996, the Dutch police utilized Porsches for high-speed patrols, marking a significant chapter in the history of law enforcement vehicles. In the early 1960s, with no speed limits on […]
Porsche and the Nazi Regime
Quotation of the Day…
29 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, Israel Kirzner
Tweet… is from page 30 of Israel Kirzner’s 1985 volume, Discovery and the Capitalist Process [original emphasis]: What is important about the market economy is that unexploited opportunities for reallocating resources from one (low market valued) use to another of higher value offer the opportunity for pure entrepreneurial gain. A misallocation of resources occurs because,…
Quotation of the Day…
2018, Global Financial Crisis @ 10, Valerie Ramey, “What Have We Learned…
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in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, econometerics, economic history, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics
More Libertarians: Murray Rothbard and Competitive Racism
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in discrimination, libertarianism, Murray Rothbard Tags: racial discrimination
Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995), has been called “the most gifted libertarian writer of his generation” (p. 251). Rothbard prided himself as, in Nancy MacLean’s words, libertarianism’s “most scathing guardian of libertarian orthodoxy” (p. 147). He was an “anarcho-capitalist” who believed that all governmental functions should be privatized, including national defense and police forces.
More Libertarians: Murray Rothbard and Competitive Racism
How and why did the Victorians succeed?
29 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education
From Samuel Hughes, in Works in Progress: The elites of Victorian Britain operated differently. Their schools and universities were not terribly academic and had very little STEM. As adults, they got up late, drank a lot, and spent a remarkable share of their waking hours partying. They loved feasting, sports, holidays, dancing, and dressing up.…
How and why did the Victorians succeed?
John McWhorter goes back to antiwoke
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in economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The other day I expressed dismay that NYT writer John McWhorter produced a piece heartily endorsing land acknowledgments (“LA”s). That was out of character for a man who got a lot of attention for his “antiprogressive” stands, encapsulated in his book Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. My objection to the…
John McWhorter goes back to antiwoke
The Left and the Mob
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2026 general election
Chris Trotter writes – By allowing themselves to be recorded alongside the Mongrel Mob, Te Pāti Māori, Green, and Labour MPs may have cost the Left the election. Harry Tam is one of those rare individuals with the ability to bring outsiders inside. As a working proposition, promoting the interests of the Mongrel Mob would […]
The Left and the Mob
Huge differences that require explanation
28 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, population economics
The California billionaire tax is very likely a net revenue loser
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in applied price theory, econometerics, entrepreneurship, politics - USA, public economics Tags: California, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment
This paper examines the revenue and migration impact of the 2026 California Billionaire Tax Act, a one-time 5 percent tax on the worldwide net worth of individuals exceeding $1 billion. Using data from the Forbes Billionaire List, news reports detailing the residential real estate holdings of California billionaires, and public announcements of billionaire departures from…
The California billionaire tax is very likely a net revenue loser
Holocaust Denial and Reason Magazine: 1976
27 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in libertarianism Tags: The Holocaust
In 1976 Reason Magazine published a piece by Austin App an antisemitic Holocaust denier.
Holocaust Denial and Reason Magazine: 1976
Bob Woodward Reveals He Spoke With Justices Stewart, Powell, White, Blackmun, and Rehnquist for “The Brethren”
27 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - USA
Steven Goldberg, one of Brennan’s clerks, provided Woodward with the 75-page case history of U.S.v. Nixon.
Bob Woodward Reveals He Spoke With Justices Stewart, Powell, White, Blackmun, and Rehnquist for “The Brethren”
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