Bob Murphy

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Cheap or Expensive, Pundits Hate Gas

My latest at IER. Incidentally, I have a neat chart showing the Fed’s balance sheet and falling gas prices. It’s funny how the fact that commodities went down when the Fed stopped inflating, somehow proves (according to Krugman et al.) that the inflationistas were wrong…

A Helpful Mnemonic in the Minimum Wage Debate

I am working on a paper for the Fraser Institute on the minimum wage debate. Both Krugman and Daniel Kuehn stressed the importance of picking a “treatment” versus a “control” group, in order to see that the minimum wage really doesn’t have much impact on employment (at least for modest hikes). Of course the pioneering […]

Tom DiLorenzo: “How I Came To Austrian Economics”

This was the opening lecture for Mises University. (I’m in Auburn, AL all week for this flagship event of the Mises Institute.) Starting around the 12:00 mark Tom pays a nice compliment to David Friedman.

Potpourri

==> Larry Reed, president of FEE, gives a talk to the Young Americans for Liberty on his new book. ==> Well that’s kind of surprising…the headline says former ObamaCare chief to head insurance lobby. ==> Tom Woods talks to Jeremy Hammond about Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman. ==> A description of my new book.

I Talk About My New Book With Anthem

At FreedomFest: Here’s the link to my book. It’s pretty sweet.

The LORD Mocks Those Who Construct Idols

I thought this was pretty funny. It’s from Isaiah 44: 6 “This is what the Lord says— Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God. 7 Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. … 9 All who make […]

“The State Has Become Our God”

This performance could actually work in an improv night.

GMOs: Pro and Con

Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Taleb deploy their “fat tails” framework (initially developed for financial markets) to GMOs. This guy on Forbes is not a fan.