March 13, 2026

Occasional X: Economics debates ― the never-ending shitshow (IV)

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“Can you name any left policy that doesn’t contradict basic economics and actually works?” (Michael Arouet) Neither mainstream nor heterodox...

Occasional X: The futile attempt to recycle Austrianism (XLXXVII)

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von Mises never understood profit, and by logical consequence, how the economic system works. The free-market economy runs on profit. Macroe...

Occasional X: Clueless economists / Price Mechanism (X)

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“Deflation isn't an economic catastrophe; …” (Handre) The axiomatically correct macroeconomic Law of Supply and Demand ⇓ tells one how ―...

Occasional X: Clueless economists / Science (CCLXXX)

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“Richard Feynman’s savage takedown of pseudo-science still burns in 2026.” (Camus) The history of economic thought is the history of scienti...

Occasional X: Economics and math ― they just can't get it together (X)

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“Utility; for an entrepreneur, ― profit; for a player, gain or loss.” (Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, p. 33, fn. 2) von Neumann/Morg...
March 12, 2026

Occasional X: The foul spirit of political economics (CCXXXVIII)

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“But the economics profession still genuflects before British pedophile John Maynard Keynes while treating Mises like some fringe crank.” (H...

Occasional X: How it works (CDLXII)

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“Interest payments by the British government are made in the same way as any other government spending. The mechanics are identical, meaning...