Back to Almaty
After a flight from Almaty to Dushanbe, in Tajikistan, where I gave a talk to the researchers and directors of the Center for Strategic Research of the office of the…
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The “Amero” Debuts in Kazakhstan
Anarchy…or…the Amero? One thing I have been asked about at several public lectures I’ve made in Kazakhstan is when the “Amero” is going to be introduced, whether it is a…
Great Meetings in Almaty
I’m pretty knackered, as the Brits say, after a very full two days of meetings, lectures, seminars, etc. I met yesterday with officials at the National Bank of Kazakhstan, the…
Off to Osh
More lectures and meetings today (I gave an 8 am talk…that’s 9pm DC time) to business students at the American University of Central Asia, then off to Osh tomorrow, followed…
Some Wisdom…
Robert Higgs: “Instead of stimulus, do nothing – seriously” (A good example of the wisdom of the Chinese idea of “Wu Wei” — “active inactivity,” aka laissez faire).
Kyrgyzstan
I’ve had a pretty busy schedule since arriving after a very, very long set of flights from DC to London, London to Almaty, and Almaty to Bishkek. It was freezing…
Japanese Lessons (How to Build Even More Bridges to Nowhere)
New York Times: “ Japan’s Big-Works Stimulus Is Lesson for U.S. ” Japan’s rural areas have been paved over and filled in with roads, dams and other big infrastructure projects,…