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Nick Gillespie sat down recently, at Reason’s Washington office, to chat for about six minutes with Russ [2]. It’s a great conversation.
One of my favorite columnists is Jay Ambrose. His write-up of Cafe Hayek [3] – and of my book Hypocrites & Half-Wits [4] – proves the soundness of my judgement. 😉
Steve Landsburg’s most-recent post [5] reminds me – admittedly idiosyncratically – of my favorite television show of all time, Yes, Minister (and Yes, Prime Minister). Here’s one of my favorite scenes [6].
More brilliance – and deep humanity – from Bryan Caplan [7].
Here’s a hot-off-the-e-press paper by Cato’s Alan Reynolds; it’s on income inequality [9]. And here’s the opening sentence in the abstract: (HT David Boaz)
This paper confirms recent studies which find little or no sustained increase in the inequality of disposable income for the U.S. population as a whole over the past 20 years, even though estimates of the top 1 percent’s share of pretax, pretransfer (market) income spiked upward in 1986-88, 1997-2000 and 2003-2007.
Two posts from Greg Mankiw: This first one [10] is on the two different survey methods used in the U.S. to estimate the unemployment rate. This second speaks for itself [11].