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EconLog

• Government in the Mortgage Business

  Posted: September 5th, 2010, 4:17am PDT by Arnold Kling

  (September 5, 2010 11:17 AM, by Arnold Kling) The New York Times reports, "This is subprime lending done right," said John Taylor, president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an umbrella group for 600 community organizations, and a staunch critic of the lending industry. He ...

• Government in the Mortgage Business

  Posted: September 5th, 2010, 4:17am PDT by Arnold Kling

  (September 5, 2010 11:17 AM, by Arnold Kling) The New York Times reports, "This is subprime lending done right," said John Taylor, president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an umbrella group for 600 community organizations, and a staunch critic of the lending industry. He ...

• Stop Calling it the Retirement Age

  Posted: September 5th, 2010, 3:58am PDT by Arnold Kling

  (September 5, 2010 10:58 AM, by Arnold Kling) Ezra Klein writes, there is one thing that both parties increasingly seem to agree on: You should work longer. Klein's thinking is that people do not want to work longer, so raising the Social Security "retirement age" ...

• Should I Take to Drink? The Latest Evidence

  Posted: September 5th, 2010, 3:21am PDT by Bryan Caplan

  (September 5, 2010 10:21 AM, by Bryan Caplan) The last time I asked "Should I take to drink?," the best evidence seemed to say "Don't bother."  Now Hanson and Crampton say the totality of the evidence is indeed in favor of moderate drinking, confounds notwithstanding.  ...

• Tax Rates, 1990 to Now

  Posted: September 5th, 2010, 3:00am PDT by David Henderson

  (September 5, 2010 10:00 AM, by David Henderson) In a comment on my post, "From the Vault: My Review of Krugman," commenter David C writes: I'd like to point out that on taxes at least, Krugman's position hasn't changed from 1990. He still thinks the ...

RedStateEclectic

• All Hail The Aqua Buddha

  Posted: September 5th, 2010, 12:32am PDT by AngelaTC

  Rand Paul leads by 15 points in the latest poll from Survey USA.The article has a link to the poll with crosstabs, but this is good news. In July, he was up by 8 points, so he's almost doubled his lead.  Kudos to Paul for ...

• Fritz Wunderlich

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 4:12pm PDT by Georg Thomas

  Enclosure: [download]

  Fritz Wunderlich (1930 - 1966) was a German lyric tenor, born and brought up in Kusel, 30 km north-west of Kaiserslautern. Never out of touch with his roots, Fritz Wunderlich found time to compose and record a ...

EconLog

• WSJ Survey Biases the Options

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 3:49pm PDT by David Henderson

  (September 4, 2010 10:49 PM, by David Henderson) Greg Mankiw posts about how some economists responded to a Wall Street Journal poll about whether the Bush tax cuts should be extended. According to Greg: 6 percent said no, all the tax cuts should be allowed ...

RedStateEclectic

• Aiken GOP Censures Graham

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 3:31pm PDT by Eric Parks

  Yeah, I’m likin’ my hometown just a wee bit more today: The Aiken County Republican Party has approved a formal censure of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. The party's executive committee took the action Thursday, joining a handful of other county parties, including ...

EconLog

• Mandatory Bad Customer Service

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 2:18pm PDT by Arnold Kling

  (September 4, 2010 09:18 PM, by Arnold Kling) Uwe E. Reinhart writes, The recently passed Affordable Care Act requires heath insurance issuers to use at least some minimum fraction of revenue from the premiums it receives on medical services. While the idea might sound straightforward, ...

RedStateEclectic

• Listen To John Dennis Rally Live

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 1:44pm PDT by AngelaTC

  If you're in the mood for some old fashioned revolution-style enthusiasm from the conservative wing of the GOP, I encourage you to tune into the John Dennis "Principles Over Politics" rally this afternoon. 5EST / 2PST at this link. Ron Paul and Matt Gonzalez ...

• Meg Whitman's Candidacy Irritates Me

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 12:50pm PDT by AngelaTC

  There is a Reagan commandment that declares “Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican." Well, forgive me for I am about to sin. But I can't believe there's apparently no stopping the Republican vs conservative train wreck that Meg Whitman represents. As a former ...

• Chuck Baldwin Moving Out

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 7:03am PDT by Eric Parks

  My 2008 pick for president has some direct words for those within the tea party movement. As long as freedom lovers are content to remain satisfied with the status quo by allowing party politics and media celebrities to dominate their efforts, there will be ...

Mises Economics Blog

• Keynes, The Intellectual Lightweight

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 5:30am PDT by Jeremiah Dyke

  “Between the years of 1911 to 1915 John Maynard Keyes was the principal reviewer of German Books for Economic Journal (see footnote 12, here)” It was during this time frame that “Maynard”, as Rothbard often referred to him, reviewed Mises path breaking 1912 book ...

RedStateEclectic

• The Great Outdoors Initiative

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 5:19am PDT by Eric Parks

  ♪ Give me land, lots of land, with starry skies above…♫ So sings the government in the latest atrocity covered by (of all people) Michelle Maulkin: The federal government, as the memo boasted, is the nation’s “largest land manager.” It already owns roughly ...

EconLog

• Good News about the Oil Spill

  Posted: September 4th, 2010, 4:05am PDT by David Henderson

  (September 4, 2010 11:05 AM, by David Henderson) Terry Hazen, a microbial ecologist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who published a groundbreaking study of microbial activity Tuesday in the online research journal Science Express, has had a team of researchers out in the Gulf ...

ROGUEGOVERNMENT.COM

• Blair pelted with shoes and eggs at book signing

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:00pm PDT

  Shoes and eggs were pelted at Tony Blair today as he attended his first book signing in the Irish Republic....

• Afghanistan Tries To Help Nation's Largest Bank After Three Days Of Bank Runs

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:00pm PDT

  In a bid to fend off the threat of a nationwide financial crisis, the Afghan government scrambled to shore up Afghanistan’s largest bank on Saturday after lines of frantic depositors mobbed the bank for a third day....

• Israeli spies wooing U.S. Muslims, sources say

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:00pm PDT

  Israel’s undercover operations here, including missions to steal U.S. secrets, are hardly a secret at the FBI, CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies....

• This Year, US Public Debt Could Reach End Game

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:00pm PDT

  Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke issues the warning. Asian nations, China and India first, are no longer willing to purchase securities issued by the US Treasury, which this year has about US$ two trillion short-term debt to refinance. Beijing is buying gold instead....

• Vaccinate The World: Gates, Rockefeller Seek Global Population Reduction

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:00pm PDT

  The global elite has launched a world-wide operation against an unaware population to reduce and control fertility. Vaccines and even staple food crops have been modified to achieve these goals....

• Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purchases of child pornography

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:00pm PDT

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• EU austerity policies risk civil war in Greece, warns top German economist Dr Sinn

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:00pm PDT

  “The policy of forced 'internal devaluation', deflation, and depression could risk driving Greece to the edge of a civil war. It is impossible to cut wages and prices by 30pc without major riots,” he said, speaking at the elite European House Ambrosetti forum at Lake ...

• Revealed: After Baghdad massacre, Blackwater split into 30 shell companies

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:00pm PDT

  The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq,...

LewRockwell.com

• The Road to Hyperinflation

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 6:23pm PDT

  Gonsalo Lira on the American future....