Bob Murphy's Tribute to Paul Krugman

Cockerill Interviews David Henderson

David Henderson, economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School of Monterey California, research scholar the Hoover Institute, and columnist for antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com, was kind enough to do an interview with me recently.

David discussed the liberty-movement leaders young people ought to emulate, the problems he sees with the Austrian Theory of the business cycle, and the personal responsibility of the peacenik and soldier in fighting against, and not fighting in, an unjust war. I believe this is a very important interview for young people, in terms of broadening their mind and seriously challenging the status quo. As such, I didn't cut much of the interview and I ask you, the reader, to find a time to listen to it in full.

If you absolutely can't listen to the whole interview, then fast-forward to about 2:21 minutes into Part 4. Here, I ask David about the issues of peace and personal responsibility, and he gives what I consider to be a very thorough and important response.

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

"What Happens in Jekyll Island Stays in Jekyll Island?"

I envy those of you who  attended the Mises Institute's "Birth and Death of the Fed" conference  on Jekyll Island, GA.  Not only did you get to learn from superb scholars and mingle  with fellow libertarians, but -- if your mind works anything like mine --  you  enjoyed  imagining  just what those rich powermongers were planning, so long ago, on that same  island  you now found yourself on. Why did they want to create the central bank? What "extracurricular" activity did they engage in following the end the formal gathering?

Though an establishmentarian drone  may think the "public good" and "wholesome fun" were on the  Banksters' itinerary, liberty activist Megan Duffield knows better. She wants attendees to offer their guesses as to exactly  what went down at the Fed-Forming conference. To have some fun at the expense of the bad guys, and to make light of a usually serious and even frightening issue, send your ideas in!

A Leap of Faith from the Bunning Affair

Yes, bear with me on this one. 

First I want to give Bunning some credit.  If you don't know what's going on, he is halting the Senate essentially (although they could vote today regardless of his objection) on a 30 day extension for jobless benefits funds. He's getting a lot of heat because he just up and decided that this is what he would raise objection on, yet he supported the Bush tax cuts, war funding, etc.  In that aspect suspicion is rightly placed.  However, I've been watching alot of news programs twist this into partisan politic, wickedness, etc.  This is what he is really doing.  He's not trying to halt jobless benefits; he wants to take the money for it from allocated funds, like stimulus funds, instead of increasing the debt.  That's it.  So, I'll give him a pat on the back for sticking to a principle (even if it just suddenly appeared).