Bob Murphy

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Obama’s Missile Shield Move

I wasn’t sure that I should even comment on Obama’s recent decision to scrap the Bush plans to place “defensive” missiles in Eastern Europe. (BTW, I actually don’t think it was “Obama’s decision” but I can’t tackle too many things in one blog post.) I probably couldn’t find Iran on an unmarked map of the […]

An Alternative Viewpoint

A local guy is hosting a discussion on Austrian economics and the current financial crisis, and he invited me to come and sort of keep things rolling smoothly. The common element is that everybody at this gathering is a Christian who doesn’t want the government taking more of his money. (I’m pretty sure it will […]

Warn the Street, the Beast Is Loose

This is awesome. EPJ tips us off to the opening scene of Wall Street 2, when Gordon Gekko is released from prison: As I explained in the comments, I haven’t been this excited for a movie since Star Wars Episode I. If Jar Jar Binks show up in this, I’m going to be really upset […]

Murphy Corresponds with Glenn Greenwald

In this state of mind, I sent a polite email to Glenn Greenwald with the subject line “a fan who disagrees strongly with you on tea parties etc.” To his extreme credit, Greenwald not only answered me, but went back and forth twice. (That is far more than you’ll get out of me, unless you […]

Necessity Is the Mother of Nobility

I thought this was pretty funny from a WSJ article about the collapse of the financial sector: Like nearly 30% of Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates in recent years, Ted Fernandez set his sights on finance. Though he majored in materials science and engineering, he was wowed by tales of excitement from friends who went […]

Glenn Greenwald Goofs

Ah, I knew his perfect streak couldn’t last. In this post Glenn Greenwald tells us that all the people who are protesting the government lately are mere dupes of Fox News. If you want the full context, you have to read his post itself; there’s too much quoting of quoting going on for me to […]

Floyd Norris Tries to Be Subtle?! Release the Internet Hounds!

Jeff Tucker found this: A Great Honor Anyone can write a bad article, but Robert Murphy of the Ludwig von Mises Institute argues that I really stand out: Floyd Norris’s recent New York Times article on the greenback is hands down the worst economics article I have ever read. Not only is it jam-packed full […]

"45, 45, 45, do I hear 40, 40, 40–the man in the Hazlitt t-shirt! Do I hear 35, 35, 35?"

Now that I’ve been slowly draining money from you through my clever Google Ads campaign, I decided it’s time to give back to the community that made me rich and famous. I want to register with a “speaker’s bureau” so that people besides Mises Institute donors can enjoy my after-dinner talks. But in order for […]