Have I Found the Worst Article of the Year?





First, I thought this was the worst article of the year: "



But then, a day later, someone brought Christopher Maloney's article to my attention: "

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Anti-Keynes Course!



The course should be up and ready for download by members before the end of the month. That makes eight courses you can learn from on the go when you become a member. Plus Q&A forums with our faculty, and a live session with us every month.



New members can use coupon code ECON for 50% off a year's subscription! Over at my LibertyClassroom.com we're just about to add a course called "John Maynard Keynes: His System and Its Fallacies." A lot of us want to oppose Keynesianism, but don't know too much about it apart from a couple basic ideas. Take this course and you'll understand it better than any of the business journalists who write online -- and you'll also know how to answer it.The course should be up and ready for download by members before the end of the month. That makes eight courses you can learn from on the go when you become a member. Plus Q&A forums with our faculty, and a live session with us every month. And I would love your guest suggestions. The show will cover the topics you would expect, but with an occasional curve ball thrown in -- i.e., topics and people who just happen to interest me. For instance, I just had a brief chat with Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson that I'll air during the show's first week.Have ideas? Please share Here I am delivering the opening speech to Mises University 2013, the wonderful week-long instructional seminar for students put on by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. And don't forget my LearnAustrianEconomics.com resource. You be the judge.First, I thought this was the worst article of the year: " Why Do Rand Paul and Obama Distrust the Free Market So Much? " by James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute. So much incomprehension in a single article, as you'll see when you click the link (which takes you to my takedown of the article, along with a link to the original piece).But then, a day later, someone brought Christopher Maloney's article to my attention: " Protestants Will Never Understand Monetary Policy ." This guy used to work for Moody's. It shows.

Talking to Judge Napolitano and Pat Buchanan

I filled in on the Peter Schiff Show a couple times earlier this month and had a chance to chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano and Pat Buchanan. I asked the Judge what exactly about the Snowden revelations was new, given that the NSA's surveillance program was already known:







Pat Buchanan and I discussed war, interventionism, the neocons, Rand Paul, Russia, and Iran, in one of the best interviews I've done this year:





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