Chronicle of the Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Milton Friedman has been caricatured in various ways since his death in 2006, with much of the subtlety and brilliance of his economic prescriptions lost in the process. Here's an interesting piece by Steve Hanke showing that Friedman was no one-way zealot for floating exchange rates, but rather in some cases saw fixed rates as the best free-market alternative. Friedman clearly favored...
Stefan Karlsson's blog (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
In a post on the Cato Institute blog, "Cato At Liberty", Alan Reynolds refers to my post on the apparent disagreement between him and his fellow Cato fellow Steve Hanke on the issue of inflation. He apparently thinks I mischaracterized his views as he comments my formulation that he doesn't think inflation is a problem with "huh?". (BTW, Alan, my last name is spelled with just 2 "s"....
Stefan Karlsson's blog (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
There seems to be great disagreement over at the Cato Institute whether or not inflation is a problem. One day, we can see Alan Reynolds declare that inflation is not a problem. A few days later, Steve Hanke declares that inflation is a problem. This is in some ways similar to the debate within the Mises Institute whether inflation is a problem, where I and some others, including Antony...
To the People (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Stephen Walters and Steve Hanke in the WSJ on Baltimore : If you've seen HBO's "The Wire," you know why those of us who live in Baltimore are often asked whether our city really is the hellhole it is portrayed to be on TV. Our answer is, well, yes. Baltimore deserves the Third-World profile it has developed because it has expanses of crumbling, crime-riddled neighborhoods populated by...
Badger Blogger (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
If you are reading this via BlogNetNews.com, please be advised that this is being done against my expressed wishes The victory that Franklin won a few weeks ago in the sex offender residency case, has an update that is being reported exclusively by Kevin Fisher. Kevin Fisher: This Just In… Convicted sex offender Steve Hanke has 60 days [...]
Random Rodricks (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In a recent Wall Street Journal piece, Stephen Walters, a Loyola College economics professor, and Steve Hanke, a Hopkins professor and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, said Baltimore deserves the Third-World profile it got from the HBO series, the Wire, and they blame high taxes and wasteful spending. The mayor’s office says facts were distorted to unfairly depict Baltimore as a...
