Month: March 2009


This Strikes Me as Highly Manipulative and Misleading

Here’s the CNN headline: “Report: 1 in 50 American children homeless” Here’s the top of the article: “(CNN) — One in 50 children is homeless in the United States every…

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Book Event

A friend has been working on promoting a book by Neil Strauss, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life. A book party will be held Thursday, March 12. Details here.

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Boudreaux and Miron on Banks

Don Boudreaux in USA Today: “Keep the banks private” Jeffrey Miron in the New York Times: “The Receivership Option“

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Good Work, Hillary!

BBC: “Button gaffe embarrasses Clinton“

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I wonder what this means…

The Economist: “Atlas felt a sense of déjà vu” Is this a case of people buying copies for their friends, or do people somehow know what to buy when things…

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Financial Crisis Interview in Georgian

Friends shared the interview I had in Expert with the Georgian media, so….

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Jeffrey Miron

I’m at a Cato Institute conference in Mexico (flying from sub-freezing New York to Mexico was, oddly, nice) and just had a chat with Jeffrey Miron, one of the voices…

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Dow Below 7,000: Wow! That Stimulus Sure Is Working!!!!

CNN: “More stock weakness in the works” Had the stock markets plunged without a panicked, multi-trillion dollar spending spree, partial nationalization of banks, threats of more intervention, etc., etc., we…

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A Particularly Bizarre Form of Animal Abuse

“Deputies: Kitten Found Stuffed Inside Marijuana Bong” Not the crime of the century, but….why would someone do something so stupid and mean?

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On the move….

(Click here to share your comments.) I’ll be on the road over the next few weeks to promote our initiatives worldwide. In the meantime, I’m working on a number of…

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