The Strange Case of Pro-Confederate Monetary Policy

Mike Konczal has a post up about Ron Paul's monetary policy hearing today, in which he notes that one of Rep Paul's key witnesses is a neoconfederate kook:

I like the title: does monetary policy ever really work? As for the witnesses, Thomas J. DiLorenzo is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He's got the Lincoln stuff down pat. He appears to be best known as an author of