ARNOLD KLING
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The Top Political Contributors
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Gender and the New Commanding Heights
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Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
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Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
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Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
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The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
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The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
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Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
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The Theory of Time and Frittering
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Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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When water boils, you only see bubbles at the top. Believe me, the water is hot through and through. I make it a point to talk to people of all stripes and occupations when I get the chance. I haven't encountered a single person yet that doesn't have some "populist" anger.
With the current shape of things in both the economy and the "natural order" of things, it would be nearly impossible not to invoke some kind of "populist" anger. As for the idea behind the "confidence" game, I do believe that the government thrives off of such systems. Money these days is only what we make of it, we believe that every dollar shows us how much the government owes us. This in turn puts the government in a favorable position for they are the one's ultimately telling us how much they have to give in return. Isn't every decent economic concept based on some kind of confidence? Hell, even our stock market is based on consumer confidence.
Why do you use the term "populist" in view of its commonally accepted connotation?