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• WE'LL MEET AGAIN,DON'T KNOW WHERE, DON'T KNOW WHEN
  This is it folks. I seem to be speechless. Must be I haven't had breakfast yet. My email max -- at --- maxERASETHISspeakDOTERASEMOREorg will still work. For those interested, send me an email and I'll inform you of any momentous developments in my world. I can also notify you about the disposition of our fabulous archives. Have fun stormin' the castle!
• FROM MAXSPEAK TO ECONOSPEAK
  The successor site is here, and it's already smokin'. As I said, MaxSpeak will shut down on Monday. This page will have a redirect to the new site. Keep an eye out for nowarblog.org. Work on that is moving forward as well. I'll be back before Monday.
• INSTANT POLICY ANALYSIS
  Note to state and local government officials: if getting an early Democratic primary is your economic development strategy, you need to find a drawing board and get to it.
• GANDHI WAS RIGHT
  It's a cliche, that remark about Western Civilization, but it is illustrated anew every day. Today we find some context for the U.S. refusal to adhere to the International Criminal Court. Claims for leadership of "the West," "the international Community," and "the free world" are routinely advanced to support whatever foreign policy bigfootedness is in store this month. ...
• MAXSPEAK'S LAST WORDS, PART 3 OF 3
  That Jamie person guest-posting here is really annoying. I luv Liz Edwards, but her talking about Hillary hatred is somewhat annoying. There will be no lack of Edwards hatred if he gets the nomination. I've been packing all day, don't have any more. Not with a bang, but a whimper . . .
• LA-LA-LA-LA-LARRY, DA DA DA DA DA DUM . . .
  I miss the Kinks.
• MAXSPEAK'S LAST WORDS,PART 2 OF 3
  My solution for Federal Reserve policy, make Jamie Galbraith The King of Money. Best sentence today, from Henry Farrell, on Alan Wolfe: "Not that he's a D'Souza, or anything like him, but he is Gertrude Stein's Oakland in human form, a sort of Lowest Common Denominator of liberal wuffle." Software oddity of the day. Not much today so far. Maybe more tonight.
• US GOVERNMENT AGENCY RESISTS BUSH PR PRESSURE ON IRAQ
  The top story on the front page of the Washington Post today by Blaine Harden and Thomas Ricks is entitled, "Report Finds Little Progress on Iraq Goals: GAO Draft at Odds with White House." The GAO is the Government Accountability Office, and its report is being given to Congress on 18 such goals. ...
• A STROLL THROUGH OLD SANDWICHLAND
  by the Sandwichman, It was a little over five years ago that the Sandwichman met Max in the flesh at the Vancouver airport as he was stopping over on a flight to Tokyo. The same day, July 22, 2002, my official tenure as guest blogger on Max's two-and-half month old MaxSpeak, You Listen began. As Max first introduced me, I was, am and always will be loony about the length of the working day. ...
• OUR MORNING PAPERDIDN'T ALWAYS SUCK
  The Entitlements Myth (quoted verbatim in its entirety, w/o comment. -- mbs) Monday, December 13, 1993, The Washington Post, p. A20. CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has it that entitlements are the great federal budget problem. Once created, they only grow; they're never cut. ...
• LAST WORDS FROM MAXSPEAK
  The main problem with the Republican Party: it's just too gay. Ted Nugent holds up a machine gun in concert, says Barack Obama can 'suck on it.' Observers are shocked to learn that Ted Nugent is still holding concerts. ...
• BALANCE THIS
  My last contribution to EPI's snapshot feature, here.
• JAPAN AND THE INTERNET: WHEN GOVERNMENT CAN HELP TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
  The Vienna School of Schumpeter and von Mises was corrrect that the profit motive of market capitalism provides a powerful incentive for technological change: invention, innovation, adoptioin, and diffusion, that command socialism lacks. However, Shumpeter split with von Mises in recognizing that government can play a postive role in this with intelligent policies. ...
• MORE ON MAX SAYING GOODBYE
  Well, as a co-blogger here for nearly two years, I thought I should put in a separate posting on the closing down of Maxspeak as such and the departure of Max himself. I hope that whatever succeeds this with some additional folks will be worthy and reasonably widely read. But there is no question that Max has been the star and is an incomparable loss. ...
• RED SQUARES
  Just to show you we ain't dead yet. Read your blogs, kids, cause children in China are starving for unconstrained commentary. If that's not bad enough, Microsoft and Yahoo are enabling the government's repression. So we have free trade in food and toys that can kill you and your pets, but the marketplace of ideas that trade is supposed to open up is locked down with the support of U.S. ...