Bob Murphy

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Breaking News…Murphy Surges in the Geeconosphere

The evangelical blogger from Nashville is surprising everyone by surging in the discussions of government debt. I don’t have time to write it up right now–got my mind on my money and my money on my mind–but check out the comments in this Landsburg post to see me on the cusp of solving this. I […]

A Burdensome Dialog on Debt

I can’t work until the Iowa results are in. So, consider the following dialog: BOB: (writing checks) Man, this is painful. I have to write two $1,000 debt payments this month. Fortunately, only one is really a burden, since I owe the other one to myself. STEVE: What do you mean? BOB: Well, the one […]

Iowa Is Very Important, Unless Ron Paul Wins

This is funny. You don’t even have to be a conspiratorial Paulbot (or -tard, or whatever) to make this leap: They are actually saying it themselves. In that respect, the clips from 2008 are superfluous.

Potpourri

I’m still buried with “day job” work, but at this point I have so many tabs on my Firefox browser that it’s slowing me down. So this post is an investment in my future productivity, see. * Glenn Greenwald once again delivers a very fair assessment of the political culture. It’s really impressive that GG […]

Newt Gingrich Soft on Conventional Murderers and Bank Robbers

That’s the only thing I can conclude from this video.

In Defense of the Mises Institute

A while ago I was a signatory to a truce between (for lack of better terms) the GMU Austro-libertarians and the Auburn Austro-libertarians. I pledged that not only would I not engage in conflict escalation between the two camps, but that I wouldn’t even make any internet comments that would likely induce others to do […]

The Laureates Need to Give More After-Dinner Talks

Tony sends this astounding video. Thinking that maybe the person who cut it up was being unfair to recent economic Nobel (Memorial) laureates Christopher Sims and/or Thomas Sargent, I watched the second video, which isolates Sargent’s full reply. (I didn’t see a link for Sims’ full response.) Uh, it’s not pretty. Let me repeat: Every […]

European Bond Bask

Krugman is at it again, arguing that the (now visible) bond vigilantes who are attacking Europe aren’t doing so because of excessive government borrowing. Rather than this being about too much debt, it’s about governments not being able to borrow in their own currency. So I have two questions: (1) For people who think this […]