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My intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy is rightfully unhappy with the Fed [2].
Richard Ebeling reviews Janek Wasserman’s The Marginal Revolutionaries [3].
Steve Horwitz offers his list of top five books that introduce students to Austrian economics [4].
My GMU Econ colleague Bryan Caplan is extremely intelligent and wise [5].
Here’s more on progress from James Pethokoukis (and Steve Davies and Joel Mokyr) [6].
Doug Bandow remembers the Spanish-American war [8].
Larry Reed responds to Anand Giridharadas’s recent cover story for Time [9]. A slice:
Socialist rhetoric always scores higher than socialist policies, and both score much better than socialist outcomes. Telling people they’re entitled to free stuff, or assailing the rich generally, appeals to a certain number, but those figures shift when rhetoric meets reality. This is one reason nobody—socialists, least of all—is conducting any polling in Venezuela.