The junior high schoolish smart aleck Paul Krugman, who writes for that well-known leftist tabloid the New York Times, wisecracks about the Ron Paul Fed hearings in his recent column where he says that I was writing about the Fed as “a legalized counterfeiting operation” as far back as the 1960s. That’s unlikely since the very first thing that I ever wrote that was published was an article for the peer-reviewed Southern Economic Journal in 1980, shortly after I finished graduate school. He must have me confused with Ludwig von Mises or Murray Rothbard. I guess all Austrians look alike to some people.
Prediction: If Dana Milbank of the Washington Post, who seems to have burst a blood vessel upon learning that I have used the “S-word” (secession) in some of my writings on the growth of the Leviathan state, reads that I once published in the Southern Economic Journal his response will be: “What? Southern Economic Journal? Slavery!!!!!!!!!!!!! Neo-Confederate!!!!!!!!!!!
8:00 am on February 11, 2011
