A Blog of Prefaces

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  http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/fed101/fedtoday/FedTodayAll.pdf (check for yourself if you don’t believe it)   Page 29: My...

  Here’s why I like Bob Murphy, and why it pains me to see him go off the deep end so often when it comes to non-economic issues. Monday...

  Here’s a little rant I wrote in response to another wild and crazy post titled “Say what you will, Charlie Sheen isn’t giving Obama a pa...

  Nobody has saved more human lives than Norman Borlaug – Father of the Green Revolution. Billions live today thanks to him. May his legac...

  John H. Cochrane [1] Many friends and colleagues have asked me what I think of Paul Krugman’s New York Times Magazine article, “ How d...

Thanks to the Health Care debate, it should now be clear that to properly understand American democracy one should read Mencken, not Tocquev...

  Dear readers, I will be on vacation until August 25th. Thank you for stopping by, and please come back soon.

  If C+I+G+X-M=Y   then $10C+$10I+$10G+$10X-$10M = $10C+$0I+$20G+0X-$0M   If this isn’t funny, I don’t know what is.

More Health Insurance is Not the Answer When someone else pays, costs always go up John Stossel   | July 9, 2009 Health care "reformers...

  I just discovered by sheer accident this nifty on-line service which, at first glance, makes most of the Google applications look o...

or – how do say “Weimar” in American?  

[please note my quibble foot-notes below] By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley Google is developing an opera...

  J. John Hubbard Department of Politics, Miskatonic University, Arkham, Mass. 1. The pretextual paradigm of consensus and dialectic...