It's probably going to be light blogging on DoL early next week as most of us will be in Vegas attending the Association of Private Enterprise Education meeting including Larry White*, Josh Hall, Ed Lopez, Frank Stephenson, Mike DeBow, Art Carden, Tim Shaughnessy, and myself. (Mike, Brad, Craig, and Wilson: you guys will have to hold down the fort.)

Besides the outstanding sessions, highlights of the meeting will include awards for for Arnold Harberger, John A. Allison, John Stossel, and Larry White. Stossel (along with Walter Williams) is judging the second installment of APEE's Economic Communicators Contest which offers a $10,000 first prize!

I'm also looking forward to seeing former Capital students Lauren Raymer (3Y grad student at UNC) and Ann Zerkle (3Y at Clemson), both of whom have papers on the program. In addition two Capital students who are starting the Ph.D. program at GMU next year will be there: Will Luther and Jayme Lemke (who graduated last year).

APEE is my favorite conference of the year. It's the only conference I attend in which it's hard to decide what session to attend. I think this year marks the 15th meeting in a row that I've attended. And Las Vegas is my favorite conference city; I'll be climbing Bridge Mountain on Saturday.

*Larry is giving a speech tonight at Capital on "Should we abolish the Fed?"