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Gotcha Questions for Martin Feldstein's Confirmation Hearing

Dec 30 2021

David Henderson

John Madden on How Competition Among Small Numbers is Still Very Competitive

Dec 29 2021

David Henderson

The Crucial Distinction Between Choice and Coercion

Dec 27 2021

David Henderson

I Bonds

Dec 26 2021

David Henderson

An Insurance Story

Dec 25 2021

David Henderson

ADA Hurt Disabled Workers

Dec 24 2021

David Henderson

John Tamny's Quizzical Statement

Dec 23 2021

David Henderson

Better Late than Never for Eric Topol

Dec 23 2021

David Henderson

The Attack on Walter Block

Dec 22 2021

David Henderson

Response to Scott Sumner on Covid Caution

Dec 21 2021

David Henderson

Wisdom on Cities from Edward Glaeser

Dec 20 2021

David Henderson

The Power of the Ten Pillars

Dec 20 2021

David Henderson

Berkeley's Swartzberg Implicitly Endorses Great Barrington Declaration

Dec 19 2021

David Henderson

Lower Concentration for Consumers

Dec 17 2021

David Henderson

Inflation: What Next?

Dec 16 2021

David Henderson

Canada's Decline in Press Freedom, Part 2

Dec 14 2021

David Henderson

Henderson on Inflation on KCBS

Dec 13 2021

David Henderson

Colorado Governor Says Sensible Things about COVID

Dec 12 2021

David Henderson

The FDA Will Soon Allow Adults to Act as Adults

Dec 11 2021

David Henderson

Elephant Ear Sandwiches and Amazon

Dec 10 2021

David Henderson

My Oversight on Scott Atlas

Dec 9 2021

David Henderson

Traffic is Congested? Then Make it More Congested

Dec 8 2021

David Henderson

Should FIRE Be Pushing for Tenure?

Dec 7 2021

David Henderson

A Memory of Bob Dole

Dec 6 2021

David Henderson

More Populist Deregulation

Dec 5 2021

David Henderson

Great Moment in Shetland

Dec 3 2021

David Henderson

What Are You Afraid Of?

Dec 2 2021

David Henderson

Bad and Good Olympic Boycotts

Nov 30 2021

David Henderson

Richard L. Stroup RIP

Nov 29 2021

David Henderson

Was Kyle Rittenhouse Foolish?

Nov 27 2021

David Henderson

Economics in One Lesson

Nov 24 2021

David Henderson

No Single Incident of Anticompetitive Actions

Nov 24 2021

David Henderson

Surviving the Zam Zam

Nov 22 2021

David Henderson

Railroad Regulation's Poor Track Record

Nov 21 2021

David Henderson

A Bad Argument for Paid Family Leave

Nov 20 2021

David Henderson

Must These Values Conflict?

Nov 19 2021

David Henderson

Who Was Henry Hazlitt?

Nov 18 2021

David Henderson

David Rubenstein's Weak Case for Fearing China

Nov 17 2021

David Henderson

Reading Hayek in Graduate School

Nov 14 2021

David Henderson

Students Open to Evidence on Taxes

Nov 12 2021

David Henderson

Response to Scott Sumner on the Carbon Tax

Nov 10 2021

David Henderson

Wagner and Weitzman's Asymmetric Treatment of Non-Carbon Energies

Nov 9 2021

David Henderson

Hayek on Responsibility for One's Fate

Nov 8 2021

David Henderson

Victims of Communism Day

Nov 7 2021

David Henderson

Schools Should Teach Distinctions

Nov 5 2021

David Henderson

Trade Follies

Nov 5 2021

David Henderson

Danish Resistance to Nazi Government

Nov 3 2021

David Henderson

Enright on Caplan on Immigration, Part Trois

Nov 2 2021

David Henderson

Moving Toward Normal

Nov 1 2021

David Henderson

The Curse of a Government Job

Oct 31 2021

David Henderson

Heather Cox Richardson's False History

Oct 30 2021

David Henderson

Sam Enright Responds

Oct 29 2021

David Henderson

Using the Geneva Conventions

Oct 28 2021

David Henderson

Sowell on Academic Standards

Oct 27 2021

David Henderson

A Reminiscence about George Akerlof

Oct 27 2021

David Henderson

Enright on Caplan on Immigration

Oct 26 2021

David Henderson

Legally Black: Jason Riley on Carter on Affirmative Action

Oct 25 2021

David Henderson

Fred Hiatt's Soft Pitch

Oct 25 2021

David Henderson

Jay Bhattacharya on Uncommon Knowledge

Oct 24 2021

David Henderson

The Biden Full Court Press Against Economic Freedom

Oct 22 2021

David Henderson

Chris Jehn on Colin Powell on AVF versus Draft

Oct 21 2021

David Henderson

The FDA's War Against the Truth on Ivermectin

Oct 19 2021

David Henderson

Angrist's Critique of Card and Krueger

Oct 17 2021

David Henderson

The Power of Compounding

Oct 16 2021

David Henderson

The Pros and Cons of Irish Democracy

Oct 15 2021

David Henderson

Good News on Oil Spills

Oct 14 2021

David Henderson

Highlights from the Nobel Committee Report

Oct 13 2021

David Henderson

Outtakes from my Nobel Article

Oct 12 2021

David Henderson

A Nobel for Natural Experimenters

Oct 11 2021

David Henderson

A Modest Proposal on Beef

Oct 9 2021

David Henderson

Great Moments in Central Planning

Oct 8 2021

David Henderson

Fond Memories of Alchian and Tullock

Oct 6 2021

David Henderson

The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin

Oct 6 2021

David Henderson

Casey Mulligan Reads the Bill

Oct 5 2021

David Henderson

Haitian Assimilation

Oct 4 2021

David Henderson

Where's the Beef?

Oct 3 2021

David Henderson

Eric Posner on Monopsony

Sep 30 2021

David Henderson

Paul Samyn's Failure to Distinguish

Sep 29 2021

David Henderson

Boudreaux on Monopsony

Sep 28 2021

David Henderson

Man on a Tightrope

Sep 27 2021

David Henderson

Reply to Bob Murphy's Query

Sep 26 2021

David Henderson

How to Make Housing More Affordable

Sep 24 2021

David Henderson

Breaking News: Unrealized Capital Gains are Not Taxed

Sep 23 2021

David Henderson

Angry Bears

Sep 23 2021

David Henderson

Henderson on UCLA on EconTalk

Sep 22 2021

David Henderson

Thoughts on Canada's Election

Sep 21 2021

David Henderson

Preach What You Practice

Sep 20 2021

David Henderson

Boudreaux on Government's Nature

Sep 19 2021

David Henderson

Wagner's and Weitzman's Bathtub Analogy

Sep 17 2021

David Henderson

My 12th-Grade Odyssey

Sep 16 2021

David Henderson

Elder's Error?

Sep 14 2021

David Henderson

How One Short Story Changed Someone from Left to Libertarian

Sep 12 2021

David Henderson

Dr. Moreno Comes Through

Sep 10 2021

David Henderson

Milton Friedman's Long-Run Impact

Sep 9 2021

David Henderson

MRI Pricing

Sep 8 2021

David Henderson

CBO Estimates Huge Deadweight Loss from Increased IRS Budget

Sep 6 2021

David Henderson

David Autor's Mix of Insight, Error, and Confusion

Sep 5 2021

David Henderson

Sunk Costs and Base Running

Sep 4 2021

David Henderson

Henderson and Hooper on Ivermectin

Sep 3 2021

David Henderson

The Friedmans on Equality of Outcome

Sep 1 2021

David Henderson

Two Great Passages from Free to Choose

Aug 31 2021

David Henderson

Jack of All Trades

Aug 29 2021

David Henderson

The Problem With Nordhaus

Aug 28 2021

David Henderson

Orwell and Ehrenburg on Hope

Aug 27 2021

David Henderson

The Truman Fabrication

Aug 26 2021

David Henderson

Sensible Medical Pricing? Maybe

Aug 25 2021

David Henderson

Canada's Decline in Press Freedom

Aug 24 2021

David Henderson

Voluntary Peaceful Activity is So Often Better than Government

Aug 23 2021

David Henderson

Does Studying Economics Make You More Hostile to Immigration?

Aug 20 2021

David Henderson

How China Is Grabbing "Our" Electric Market

Aug 18 2021

David Henderson

NIH Head's Shocking Innumeracy

Aug 17 2021

David Henderson

Harold Demsetz on Why and When Property Rights Develop

Aug 16 2021

David Henderson

What Does This Employer Discrimination Mean?

Aug 15 2021

David Henderson

The Economic and Moral Case Against Eviction Moratoria

Aug 13 2021

David Henderson

Recent Study of Ivermectin Finds No Effect on Covid

Aug 12 2021

David Henderson

Should the Unvaccinated Be Required to Pay for Hospital Bills?

Aug 11 2021

David Henderson

North Dakota's Health Care Safety Valve for Manitobans

Aug 10 2021

David Henderson

Peaceful Easy Feeling After Crossing the Border

Aug 9 2021

David Henderson

Aaron Burr's Explanation of 1830s Political Parties

Aug 4 2021

David Henderson

Travel from Canada to the United States

Aug 3 2021

David Henderson

Canada’s Border Policy Doesn’t Scale

Aug 1 2021

David Henderson

How Scientific is the FDA?

Jul 29 2021

David Henderson

Essential UCLA School is Now Out

Jul 24 2021

David Henderson

EconVersation with Dan Sutter of Troy University

Jul 23 2021

David Henderson

What's Wrong with Registering Women for the Draft?

Jul 22 2021

David Henderson

Market Values ARE Human Values

Jul 21 2021

David Henderson

Where Behavioral Economics Solves a Problem that Doesn't Exist

Jul 20 2021

David Henderson

When Is It Alright to Steal from Bill Gates? A Rejoinder to Bryan Caplan

Jul 19 2021

David Henderson

Freedom is Regulation, Florida Edition

Jul 17 2021

David Henderson

Biden's Executive Order on Competition

Jul 16 2021

David Henderson

Reminiscences of Thurgood Marshall

Jul 14 2021

David Henderson

Two Facts about Mass Transit and Cars

Jul 13 2021

David Henderson

The New World of Radio

Jul 12 2021

David Henderson

Trillions of Dollars of Retirement Wealth Have Been Mislaid

Jul 11 2021

David Henderson

Larry White on Brainerd on Stablecoins

Jul 9 2021

David Henderson

Is It Alright to Steal from Bill Gates?

Jul 8 2021

David Henderson

Campusland Delivers

Jul 8 2021

David Henderson

Are Externalities Enough?

Jul 7 2021

David Henderson

Congressman Rumsfeld on the Draft

Jul 5 2021

David Henderson

Benefits of the American Revolution: An Exploration of Positive Externalities

Jul 4 2021

David Henderson

Two Objections to Free Trade

Jul 4 2021

David Henderson

Mike Gravel on Sunk Costs in War

Jul 2 2021

David Henderson

Royal Caribbean's Response to DeSantis's Restrictions on Freedom of Association

Jul 1 2021

David Henderson

The Wall Street Journal's Defense of Aduhelm Deserves 1.5 Cheers

Jun 30 2021

David Henderson

Campusland

Jun 28 2021

David Henderson

John Tamny's Hayekian Take on Covid Policies

Jun 26 2021

David Henderson

The Case for Boarding Houses

Jun 25 2021

David Henderson

How Government and Politics Work

Jun 24 2021

David Henderson

You're Not Advocating Anything Different from what you Previously Advocated

Jun 23 2021

David Henderson

Whalen and Henderson on the Assault on Wealth

Jun 22 2021

David Henderson

Zachary D. Carter's Hatchet Job on Milton Friedman

Jun 21 2021

David Henderson

Marginal Costs Should Include All Relevant Margins

Jun 21 2021

David Henderson

Two Hopeful Signs

Jun 20 2021

David Henderson

The Origin of SARS-Cov-2

Jun 19 2021

David Henderson

How Dikembe Mutombo's Career Illustrates the Case for Free Trade

Jun 18 2021

David Henderson

Sunk Cost and Marginal Cost: Our Microwave

Jun 17 2021

David Henderson

The Everyday Miracles on the Web

Jun 15 2021

David Henderson

Notes on Taking Hummel's Monetary Theory and Policy Course

Jun 13 2021

David Henderson

A Warm Memory about State Farm's Good Will

Jun 8 2021

David Henderson

Strawmen, Steelmen, and Bad Faith

Jun 7 2021

David Henderson

How Reliable is Government Information?

Jun 6 2021

David Henderson

Models versus Data

Jun 5 2021

David Henderson

Peterson Interviews Henderson on the Lockdown Loss to Youth

Jun 4 2021

David Henderson

Texas Government Assaults Economic Freedom

Jun 3 2021

David Henderson

Youth Pay a High Price for Covid Protection

Jun 3 2021

David Henderson

The Enemy Below

Jun 2 2021

David Henderson

How the Profit Motive Makes Discrimination Less than Otherwise

Jun 1 2021

David Henderson

How Many Pinocchios Should Glenn Kessler Get?

May 30 2021

David Henderson

Failure to Launch and UBI

May 28 2021

David Henderson

Henderson versus Manning on the $15 Minimum Wage

May 27 2021

David Henderson

Jerry Nadler's Radical Tax Reform

May 26 2021

David Henderson

George Blake's Shocking Absence of Due Diligence

May 24 2021

David Henderson

Thinking on the Margin in the NBA

May 23 2021

David Henderson

Ask What Changed: An Error in Cowen/Tabarrok Textbook

May 21 2021

David Henderson

Inflation: True and False

May 21 2021

David Henderson

Rosen versus Henderson on Child Tax Credits

May 20 2021

David Henderson

What is Ontario Trying to Tell Us?

May 19 2021

David Henderson

Panetta, Quayle, and Clinton

May 18 2021

David Henderson

Ridicule or Reach Out?

May 17 2021

David Henderson

The Miserable Americans

May 16 2021

David Henderson

Tim Kane's Immigrant Interview of Henderson

May 15 2021

David Henderson

Batchelor Interviews Henderson on Capital Gains Tax Increase

May 14 2021

David Henderson

Jason Furman on High UI

May 14 2021

David Henderson

Ryan Streeter's Grounds for Optimism

May 13 2021

David Henderson

Do Profit Maximizers Leave $4,000 on the Table?

May 12 2021

David Henderson

Bob Chitester RIP

May 10 2021

David Henderson

Two Questions on Sunkara's Book

May 9 2021

David Henderson

California State Government Will Lose Big from Capital Gains Tax Increase

May 8 2021

David Henderson

Despite or Because of?

May 7 2021

David Henderson

Camping Cohen's Commitment

May 6 2021

David Henderson

Henderson on John Batchelor Show on Family Allowance

May 6 2021

David Henderson

Richard Nixon and the Draft

May 5 2021

David Henderson

Cost of Protection for Youth Much Higher than Benefits

May 4 2021

David Henderson

G. A. Cohen's Bizarre Camping Trip

May 3 2021

David Henderson

Economic Lessons from COVID-19

May 1 2021

David Henderson

Incentives Matter in Banking Too

Apr 27 2021

David Henderson

An Immigrant's Story

Apr 26 2021

David Henderson

Shaw on Socialism and Occupational Choice

Apr 25 2021

David Henderson

Child Allowances are a Bad Idea

Apr 24 2021

David Henderson

Does Spending Your Own Money on Yourself Create a Negative Externality?

Apr 21 2021

David Henderson

Andy Pasztor on Our Amazing Airplane Safety Record

Apr 21 2021

David Henderson

Walter Oi and Armen Alchian on Value of Life

Apr 20 2021

David Henderson

The Resource Cost of a Gold Standard

Apr 19 2021

David Henderson

Berlin Rent Control Unconstitutional

Apr 16 2021

David Henderson

Canadian versus US Banking

Apr 15 2021

David Henderson

Larry White on the Gold Standard

Apr 14 2021

David Henderson

Anthony Fauci is Anti-Science

Apr 13 2021

David Henderson

Both Amazon and Workers Win

Apr 11 2021

David Henderson

I LOVE State Farm

Apr 10 2021

David Henderson

Tyler Cowen on the Great Barrington Declaration

Apr 9 2021

David Henderson

Hayek on High Prices for 10 Seconds of Work

Apr 8 2021

David Henderson

Henderson on Good and Bad Inequality

Apr 7 2021

David Henderson

The Nobel Factor

Apr 6 2021

David Henderson

Deadweight Loss Computations

Apr 5 2021

David Henderson

The Case Against High Marginal Tax Rates

Apr 4 2021

David Henderson

The Bad and Good Vaccine Passports

Apr 2 2021

David Henderson

Africa Tries Free Trade

Apr 1 2021

David Henderson

Chuck Baird: A Fond Reflection

Mar 30 2021

David Henderson

Covid Caution and Curry

Mar 29 2021

David Henderson

Charles Ball's Humanity

Mar 28 2021

David Henderson

Whose Body Is It Anyway?

Mar 26 2021

David Henderson

The Solution to Expensive Housing Is More Housing

Mar 25 2021

David Henderson

Ludwig von Mises on the "Barbarous Relic"

Mar 24 2021

David Henderson

Brookings' Cliff Winston on Infrastructure

Mar 24 2021

David Henderson

Krugman Illustrates Caplan's Point

Mar 23 2021

David Henderson

The Factors in the Drastic Money Supply Drop from 1929 to 1933

Mar 21 2021

David Henderson

The Damage Yet to Come from the "Stimulus"

Mar 19 2021

David Henderson

Covid Minimizing on One Variable

Mar 18 2021

David Henderson

Strangely Liberating

Mar 17 2021

David Henderson

Should AstraZeneca Vaccine Be Paused?

Mar 16 2021

David Henderson

Alice Rivlin on Bracket Creep

Mar 15 2021

David Henderson

What Alan Blinder Missed on Inflation

Mar 14 2021

David Henderson

Great Cowen Interview of John Cochrane

Mar 11 2021

David Henderson

My Thoughts on Unions

Mar 10 2021

David Henderson

The Logical Basis is a Difference in Incentives

Mar 9 2021

David Henderson

The Dog in the Doctor Seuss Manger

Mar 8 2021

David Henderson

An Unnecessary "Stimulus"

Mar 6 2021

David Henderson

I Hereby Resign as an Expert on Systemic Racism

Mar 2 2021

David Henderson

Bernie Sanders, Minimum Wage, and Systemic Racism

Mar 1 2021

David Henderson

PC and PG Matter More than Content at Google

Feb 28 2021

David Henderson

The Ethical and Economic Case Against Lockdowns

Feb 25 2021

David Henderson

Private versus Government

Feb 24 2021

David Henderson

Serbians' Freedom to Choose

Feb 23 2021

David Henderson

L'Etat, c'est Ro

Feb 23 2021

David Henderson

The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Unemployment

Feb 22 2021

David Henderson

Jeff Hummel on Classical Liberals and Libertarians

Feb 22 2021

David Henderson

The Sunk Cost Lesson Stuck

Feb 21 2021

David Henderson

How the Feds Gave a Competitive Advantage to Conservative Radio

Feb 19 2021

David Henderson

The Opportunity-Killing Minimum Wage

Feb 19 2021

David Henderson

In Praise of CVS

Feb 18 2021

David Henderson

Charley Hooper on Masks

Feb 17 2021

David Henderson

Great Moment in Public Service Number 12,933

Feb 16 2021

David Henderson

The Communist Trabant

Feb 15 2021

David Henderson

The Magness Horpedahl Convergence on Masks

Feb 14 2021

David Henderson

Redford on Qualified Immunity and Moral Hazard

Feb 11 2021

David Henderson

Ezra Klein on California Housing Restrictions

Feb 11 2021

David Henderson

White Guilt and Reparations: A True Story

Feb 11 2021

David Henderson

The Magness Horpedahl Convergence on Lockdowns

Feb 10 2021

David Henderson

What is Equity?

Feb 9 2021

David Henderson

Mitt Romney's Expensive and Unfair Child Allowance

Feb 8 2021

David Henderson

Caitlin Doughty on Death

Feb 6 2021

David Henderson

Cost/Benefit Analysis or Rock, Paper, Scissors

Feb 4 2021

David Henderson

Margins and the 2020 Presidential Election

Feb 3 2021

David Henderson

People Have Purposes; Markets Don't

Jan 29 2021

David Henderson

The Big Long

Jan 28 2021

David Henderson

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Jan 26 2021

David Henderson

Will the Vaccines Mess With Our DNA?

Jan 25 2021

David Henderson

Richard Yetter Chappell on Lessons from the Pandemic

Jan 24 2021

David Henderson

Appreciating Walter Williams

Jan 22 2021

David Henderson

Valerie Ramey Has the Same Quandary I Do

Jan 21 2021

David Henderson

William Allen RIP

Jan 20 2021

David Henderson

A Shocking USPS Admission

Jan 18 2021

David Henderson

Without Government, Who Would Stop Us from Feeding Poor People?

Jan 17 2021

David Henderson

Charles Barkley Articulates the Benefit Principle

Jan 15 2021

David Henderson

Great Moments in California Lockdowns

Jan 14 2021

David Henderson

Noubar Afeyan on Academia, Business, Immigration, and the American Dream

Jan 13 2021

David Henderson

Eric Hoffer on "Property Rights" in Jobs

Jan 11 2021

David Henderson

Joe Stiglitz on Taxing Interest

Jan 10 2021

David Henderson

Did Trump Foment a Violent Assault?

Jan 9 2021

David Henderson

Sunk Costs in Iraq and Afghanistan

Jan 8 2021

David Henderson

The Big Lesson of 2020: Government Failure

Jan 7 2021

David Henderson

Ralph K. Winter Jr. RIP

Jan 6 2021

David Henderson

890 Thousand Excess Deaths Due to Covid and Lockdowns

Jan 5 2021

David Henderson

KevinDC on Jakarta, Local Knowledge, Rules, and Marines

Jan 4 2021

David Henderson

Newt Gingrich's Numeracy Problem

Jan 2 2021

David Henderson

Auld Lang Syne

Jan 1 2021