Bob Murphy

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The Best Goldman Apology Yet

LRC reprints a pretty funny Matt Taibbi article where he (with some vulgarity) responds to a Slate defense of Goldman Sachs: So, gosh, I stand corrected, I guess. Because I thought that Goldman made a ton of money this year because it got a special waiver (fast-forwarding through the usual five-day antitrust waiting period, thanks […]

Alanis Morissette Did That on (Canadian) Television

Somehow over pitchers and wings we managed to bring up You Can’t Do That on Television the other night. (“Daaaa I heeeeard that!”) One member of our elite group remarked that if you watch clips of the show now, the Canadian accents are striking, whereas that was never something I had noticed as a kid. […]

New Inflation Numbers Coming, But the Orwellians Are Working

It’s almost crunch time! By early next week the new PPI and CPI numbers for July will be out. I have been warning for months that actual prices are rising much more quickly than you would realize, had you simply relied on the official reports coming out of the BLS. I explained that after last […]

The Forthcoming Lessons for the Young Economist, a High School Economics Course

I am pleased to announce that the Mises Institute has officially given me the green light to start working on an economics course geared for the high school level. The main audience will be for homeschoolers, but the course materials will be “official” enough that any high school teacher with a friendly administration could adopt […]

Fifth Third Bank Manager Taking Sales Tips From Obama?

I’m sure most of you heard President Obama’s ill-advised attempt to defuse critics of the health “reform” plans. Obama was trying to make the point that a public (government) health insurance plan wouldn’t put private insurers out of business, and so he noted that FedEx and UPS were doing fine, whereas the Post Office was […]

Mo Murphy

* More lecturing for CA, this time in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. * If you hate downloading mp3s, here is my radio interview in the Bahamas broken up into YouTube segments. (Thanks to Damien Forsythe.) * Ay caramba!

Fed: We Will Continue to Monetize the Debt Through October

That’s not the exact spin that CNBC gave to the story: The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will extend the duration but not the dollar amount of a program to buy long-term government securities, and said the economy was showing signs of leveling out after 20 months of recession. The Fed, the US central bank, […]

Rizzo Batting .900

Folks, I am waiting for Mario Rizzo to slip up and post something dumb, just so I can pounce on him and prove I’m independent. But alas, he keeps knocking it out of the park: The over-all theme of [Krugman’s] article is that big government is our salvation. “[U]tter catastrophe no longer seems likely…Big Government, […]