Bob Murphy

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Is There a Doc in the House? A Response to Krugman on ObamaCare

Today I am pleased to offer a response to Paul Krugman’s arguments that the free market can’t work in health care. The writer is Matthew DiPaola, who was in my high school class. More important, as his bio below indicates, Matthew is an actual MD and thus may actually know more than Krugman, me, and […]

Kudlow’s Cuckoo for Clunkers

I explain the unfortunate demise of Larry Kudlow in this Mises Daily.

Revealing Language in the Health Care Bill

Robert Wenzel has been doing a great job keeping his readers up to speed on just how awful the health care bill is. In particular, he has been repeating the remarks of some poor guy who actually read the whole thing. (!!) Whenever I see “shocking” commentary like the one on EPJ, I like to […]

The Policeman Is Not Your Friend, Fake Abandoned Car Edition

William Grigg at LRC (sorry I lost the link) tips us off to this story. A couple in Austin saw a suspicious car (keys in ignition, windows rolled down, rope and bikini top in the back seat) parked on their street. They asked their neighbors, and nobody knew anything. So they called the police, who […]

How Many Popes Can You Fit Into the Mises Institute?

Tom Woods argues that just one would be great. Here he caves in to peer pressure and writes a response to the Pope’s encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. Here’s Tom’s thesis: Caritas in Veritate strikes me as at best a relatively unremarkable restatement of some familiar themes from previous social encyclicals. At worst, it is bewilderingly […]

Anarchy and Iraq: Murphy Responds to Gonzalez

In a recent article on Free Advice, Iraq vet Edward Gonzalez explained how his experience with “anarchy” in Iraq made him doubt the armchair theorizing from people like Murray Rothbard and me. Obviously, I have been running Gonzalez’s articles because he is quite possibly the only human on Earth who:(a) Saw combat in Iraq,(b) Is […]

Krugman vs. Murphy on the Economy: Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves

Back at the end of May, I was really excited when Paul Krugman wrote that inflation wasn’t going to be a problem anytime soon. Up until then, Krugman and my forecasts had been basically the same; I thought the huge deficits, power grabs, and monetary injections were going to wreck the economy, whereas Krugman had […]