I just got back from the Southern Economic Association, where I attended many of the sessions of the Austrian economists.* In one session, the subject was comparing Kant’s view of the process how the mind comes to know things vs. Hayek’s view. One discussant said several times that he could “tell an evolutionary story” of […]
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Evolutionary dreams in New Orleans
26 Nov 2015
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As I’ve related previously, Democrats seem convinced that legalized immigrants will become part of a permanent majority, and many Republicans (including especially talk-radio) seem to believe this as well. While I’m skeptical for many reasons, I have a small proposal that could take this issue off the table. Since progressive supporters of immigration make many […]
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Oh the days when our worries were only over Obamacare. But we can still worry about that too!
20 Nov 2015
In the midst of huge foreign policy concerns, societal breakdown on multiple dimensions, its easy to forget about our top concern a couple of years ago: the government takeover of our health care system. We predicted disaster, and Obamacare has never been popular with the American people. It came at great cost to the Democratic party, […]
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Paris. Far away, but ever so close.
16 Nov 2015
Most of the world was horrified on Friday evening; in the U.S. it was coming home to see horrible reports of terrorists executing concert attenders one by one. Over the weekend and continuing today, many are wrestling with how the world will respond, as well as the U.S. Mrs. Clinton tried for some separation from […]
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Yesterday’s headlines included Rasmusson’s poll results on how many people want the government to prosecute people who don’t believe in global warming. The title of the article, Little Support of Punishing Global Warming Foes, belies the seriousness of the actual results. Let’s summarize the results, (copied from the Rasmusson link): 68% of Likely U.S. Voters oppose […]
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Barack Obama: The $20 Trillion Man
02 Nov 2015
“Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better…stronger…faster.” So began the narration to one of my favorite boyhood television shows in the mid-1970s. The […]
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It always amazes me that most people think that the effect of central bankers on the global economy is small. Its not just our resident critic here @ BATG. I went to a conference last year where a very conservative Christian financial advisor told me that the stock market was basically just about the great […]
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Fellow Berean Mark Caleb Smith continues to write eloquently about the need for improving civil discourse, as in our current featured post, yet I fear he will continue to be a voice in the wilderness. While he and I have some disagreements in this area, certainly he is right that a major problem in our […]
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As we approach 5 November, the date that Treasury Secretary Lew has said the U.S. will run out of money, there are more articles coming out on the possibility of the U.S. defaulting. Implicit in almost all the reporting is the false assumption that if partisan politics prevents an extension of the debt, the U.S. […]
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Where there is no Vision, the people perish. Implications for Christian Political Economy
13 Oct 2015
Many of us have heard the Proverb 29:18 in the form of “where there is no vision, the people perish.” It is often used to suggest that without visionaries we can’t move forward. Politicians, both left and right, suggest this means we need to have their policies put forward to guarantee our future–since obviously they […]
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