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George Selgin writes to the New York Times about the Fed [2].
Will Pentagon budget cuts “castrate” U.S. military might? Veronique de Rugy and Benjamin Friedman reveal that the answer is ‘certainly not. [4]‘
David Boaz exposes Michael Gerson’s apparent inability to understand libertarianism [5].
In this video, Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz talk with James Pethokoukis [6].
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to live with the income that Elvis Presley earned?! [7] (Andy Morriss does here what I’ve been thinking of doing since I read Ron Chernow’s biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. [8] (1839-1937). Middle-class Americans today would suffer a great deal of noticeable material hardship were they forced to live as America’s richest man of a century ago lived. [On this matter, see today’s Quotatation of the Day [9].])
The Minneapolis Fed interviews MIT economist Esther Duflo [10].