Tyler Gets Shocking

Funny stuff. I actually think Tyler works best as a contrarian libertarian. He's helping to bridge the chasm-of-talking-past-each-other that occurs between economic liberals and classical liberals.

It's pretty great to see him get really angry since he's normally so composed, but it would lose its charm if he had to do it all the time.

I don't think I could stomach her book and its tenuous connections and conspiracy mongering.

But it's unfortunate that someone with more credibility doesn't address the atrocious approach taken to imposing a free market in Iraq. That's a Shock Doctrine in practice: wet behind the ear kids with nary an understanding of anything, freshly indoctrinated with free market ideas from a few measly university courses, crushed a socialist economy and left--chaos.

Stupid. The idea that conservatives often tinker with what exists, mentioned by Tyler points in his review, was not followed in Iraq. Instead, free market kids and lunatics bulldozed everything in their Iraqi playground and left--nothing. A mess. Which will lead to greater messes.

Iraq doesn't have a free-market. It has price-controls on oil resulting in shortages, which doesn't seem to make sense considering they produce the stuff. Their constitution looks like it was devised by social democrats/progressives.