Bob Murphy

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How Is This Not Traveling?

I realize there are more important things to argue about, but people are citing this as the danger of early celebration. How is that guy not traveling? He clearly takes three full steps while carrying the ball.

They Tried to Warn Us About “Green” Vehicles Decades Ago

Totally not worth explaining, but Roderick Long tweeted this hilarious clip:

A Rising Tide Lifts All Interventionists

I agree with the substance of his post, but only Steve Landsburg could start a piece like this: “So the Obama administration has released a climate forecast, according to which Miami could be under water by the end of the century. Apparently we’re supposed to be very concerned about that.” (Here are my thoughts on […]

Krugman on VA Health Care as a Model for Reform

I sometimes fancy myself as a sophisticated economist who knows what’s up, wise to all the hijinx and mayhem flowing out of DC. But nope, I am still a little bunny cowering in the corner. Yesterday I actually hesitated before relating the VA hospital scandal to ObamaCare and socialized medicine more broadly, wondering if that was […]

With Single Payer, We Can All Get VA-Quality Health Care!

A mainstream summary of the timeline on the developing Veterans Affairs scandal: The Obama administration is facing a serious scandal in which government officials are alleged to have falsified data to hide how long veterans were waiting to see doctors at VA hospitals…Here is a timeline of events leading up to the current situation, which […]

Potpourri

==> Scott Horton praises David Stockman on Stockman’s analysis of central banking and the warfare state. Remember kids, Stockman is our headline speaker at this year’s Night of Clarity! ==> When I first joined IER, I met Robert Bryce (we were attending some of the same briefings etc.). He is a really sharp guy who […]

Richard Ebeling Provides a Rare Photo of Mises

Richard gave me permission to post this shot from Facebook. He grabbed this when he was going through the archives of the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (formerly the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research) in Vienna. (Click the photo to be able to read Richard’s commentary better.) I pointed out on Facebook that Mises […]