Make a buck and keep 31 cents. Sign me up!

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/07/phil-mickelson-open-championship-taxes/

It is easy to understand gold when you hold the price fixed.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/07/18/bernanke-nobody-really-understands-gold-prices/?mod=djemRTE_h

Highlights of Alumni Golf Tourney

"Food is more important than ideas."

http://www.cato.org/blog/muslim-brotherhoods-legacy-controls-shortages-inflation

Ditto.

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2013/06/the_allpowerful.html

Read the last two paragraphs. The politics of central banking.

I remember Rick Mishkin gave a speech here at ECU entitled "Modern Central Banking...Has it become like Modern Dentistry?" Of course this was before our little event in 2008. It is hardly dentistry anymore.



http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-political-entanglement-of-central-banking-by-raghuram-rajan

Inflation? Make mine a double!

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2013/06/just_how_helpfu.html