Here’s an updated interview with George Selgin on Bitcoin and free banking.
An audio version of my and Phil Gramm’s book, The Triumph of Economic Freedom, is now available.
Canada is starting to lower its interprovincial trade barriers. A slice:
Barriers to domestic commerce “are not relatively sexy in the area of public policy,” said Stephen Laskowski, chief executive of the Canadian Trucking Alliance. “But if we can resolve them, we can get a lot of productivity and efficiency improvements.”
Price theory is fun and revealing, David Henderson edition.
Walter Olson asks: “Can the White House denaturalize domestic opponents?” A slice:
In general, courts will not treat someone as having renounced US citizenship unless they are shown to have done so voluntarily, a principle endorsed by all nine Supreme Court justices in Vance v. Terrazas (1980). Under the 1967 Supreme Court case of Afroyim v. Rusk, as well as relevant statute, as Eugene Volokh explains, there are very narrow circumstances in which courts might infer that someone has implicitly renounced his US citizenship, say by serving in the army of a foreign power at war with the United States. “Needling Donald Trump too much on TV,” [Rosie] O’Donnell’s apparent offense, is not one of the permissible grounds, and in its absence, Trump’s formal presidential powers against O’Donnell would seem to be limited to the capacity to cope and seethe.
Arnold Kling predicts that “the U.S. debt binge will end with a 2-tier health care system.”
