Bob Murphy

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Glenn Greenwald on ThinkProgress

Glenn Greenwald has just been hitting it out of the park lately. It makes me doubly honored that I was his warm-up act on Antiwar Radio today with Scott Horton. (If someone has a direct link please post it in the comments.) Anyway, GG wrote this post while I was on the road in Michigan, […]

And We’re Back

I’d like to say the FBI shut me down, but I’m not that important yet. I’d like to say what the real reason was, but my blog hosting company has now given me three different reasons. Also, when you call their customer support, they explain that all they have to work with is the trouble […]

Landsburg vs. Murphy on the Supercommittee

Oh boy, strap on your seatbelts kids because Landsburg and I are going at it. You will never see such rapid-fire deployment of assumptions, rhetorical tricks, absurd scenarios, and kidney punches as when the two raconteurs from Rochester duke it out in the comments of his blog. (I was born and raised in Rochester, and […]

Krugman Kontradiction on Unemployment Benefits

This is such a good Krugman Kontradiction that it might deserve a new category; call it a Paul Paradox. Dan in the comments referred me to Robert Wenzel, who in turn linked to Ed Yardeni catching Krugman in, well, a typical Kontradiction. My post will actually give you “the rest of the story,” because Yardeni […]

Krugman on Shaping Expectations

I’m not going to say this even qualifies as a “Kontradiction,” but it’s close. By now, every serious geeconosphere wonk should know that Paul Krugman’s recommendation to Japan back in the day, was that its central bank should credibly commit to future inflation. That would cause the public to expect a lower purchasing power of […]

Karl Smith’s Less-Than-Soothing Fed Exit Strategy

I truly enjoy reading Karl Smith’s posts over at Modeled Behavior. Karl might be second only to Steve Landsburg in terms of thinking about standard issues in novel ways. (For example, check out this post where Karl consciously walks headfirst into the liquidity trap, and becomes more powerful than Paul Krugman can possibly imagine.) So […]

The Battle Rages on at The Economist

Rob Bradley asked me to make you folks aware that he is currently running neck and neck at The Economist in a debate over government subsidies to renewable energy sources. I link, you decide.

Back From Michigan

I’m back in Music City. The bus tour in MIchigan was definitely a new experience for me. I was really hoping we would get hecklers but it never happened while I was there. Apparently there were some Occupiers who tried to disrupt the stops in Pennsylvania. We also saw evidence of them on the bus. […]