Tom, David and Bob, speaking of Cato, in the Wall Street Journal of Thursday, December 17, 2015 (p. A19), its senior fellow, one Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. writes about “The Fed’s Uncertain Leap Forward.” Does he mention ending the Fed? He does not. Does he discuss the Austrian Business Cycle Theory? To ask this is to answer it. Does he in any way indicate he is a libertarian? Of course not. Does the dread name “Ron Paul” figure into his thoughts in any manner shape or form, and the long and valiant battle Dr. No has had with the fed? You’ve got to be kidding. Can one discern from reading his essay that he was once upon a time one of Murray Rothbard’s chief intellectual heirs, followers, disciples? Don’t make me laugh. Instead, he waxes eloquent about the Federal Open Market Committee’s rationale for its decisions; about labor market condition indicators; about Milton Friedman being a notable researcher in the undermining of the Phillips curve theory; about the timing of the fed’s move; about whether or not the increase in the interest rate will soon be repeated. Gerry, Gerry, you were a member in good standing of Murray’s living room crowd. You, along with Roger Garrison and Joe Salerno, were seen by Murray for a time as the leaders of the next generation of Austrian macro-money economists. What, in the name of all that which is holy, happened to you? Why did you go over to the dark side? But, it is not too late. It never is. Where there is life there is still hope. I, the Reverend Doc Block, call upon you to repent, and once again take on the mantle of Menger, Mises and Rothbard. Give up your evil mainstream ways. Cast them off, say I.

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