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Labor Day

…history in this reply: “‘A made-up holiday that never had a great basis for its existence?’ How about the Ludlow Massacre where 57 miners were killed by Rockefeller guards that…

Smoking At The Fed

…big crash and the Great Recession. I do not know if Fed secrecy is better than the current everry-Fed-official-shoots-off-his/her mouth or not. But that is where we are now: the…

Richard Epstein: Peak Dishonesty

…stuff, and their great strengths are procedures and diagnoses in the cases. Their great weakness is understanding general-equilibrium theory. That last sentence brought back memories. I was in a small…