Tom DiLorenzo-hating Matt Yglesias sounds like any other neocon. Opposed to the war of aggression against Iraq? You must like Saddam. Opposed to the war of aggression against Afghanistan and Pakistan? You must like Osama. Think the US civil war was also vicious and unnecessary, and that the evil of slavery could have been abolished without 600,000 dead, as everywhere else? Think that tariffs, big business interests, and centralized government power might have played a role? Not worship at the temple to Lincoln Best and Greatest on the imperial mall? Why, you must be pro-slavery. At least Yglesias does mention that the Confederate government, like the US government in all its hundreds of wars, used counterfeiting to fund its killing. He apparently thinks this is some kind of point scored against the anarcho-capitalist DiLorenzo, who is no fan of any thieving-killing State, to repeat myself. As a Keynesian, of course, Yglesias likes such tactics.
I did enjoy his claim that the “Koch/Cato” crowd is moving towards the “Mises/Paul” view on the Fed. If he’s right, is this for real, or just another attempt to fool the Paulian masses? We’ll see. It is good news, whatever the motive, that Koch/Cato is reprinting Ron Paul’s Case for Gold from US Gold Commission days. The Mises Institute, of course, has never let its edition go out of print, though we have a great surprise to come even here. (Thanks to Bob Roddis)
1:38 pm on February 9, 2011
