Bob Murphy

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Phew! State Governments Pledge Not to Implant Microchips Against Your Will *Unless a Judge Orders It

I recently became aware of the theory that the elites behind the scenes ultimately want to put microchips in all of us. When I first heard it, I laughed out loud because I thought it was so dumb. It turns out we have nothing to fear; various states have banned forced microchipping of people. Here’s […]

Knappenberger Takes on Krugman on Climate

Over at MasterResource climate researcher Chip Knappenberger takes on Paul Krugman’s op ed where he pulled an Ann Coulter and accused his enemies of treason. Here was my favorite part: [CHIP:] Krugman completely misinterprets the science on Americans’ response to heat waves. He said: [KRUGMAN:] Temperature increases on the scale predicted by the M.I.T. researchers […]

Wenzel v. Murphy: The Grand Finale

OK this will be my last post on this topic. Robert Wenzel struggles on, even though Stefan Karlsson has further demonstrated the untenability of Wenzel’s position. Wenzel is spending 95% of his time trying to show that my arguments sound like the Keynesian position that Rothbard attacks in his treatise. I’m not going to get […]

Wenzel Merely Postpones His Defeat

I have to be brief because we’re going to church in a bit. But I know at least some of you are following the tennis match between Robert Wenzel and me. We are arguing over whether we should call it “saving” if someone contributes extra cash to a piggy jar on the dresser. I say […]

The Testimony of Johnny Cash

I’m not making an appeal to authority (or to hipness), but I do find it interesting that Johnny Cash sang what would be a goofy Christian hymn if performed by an old lady with a pipe organ. But hey, it’s Johnny Cash, so it’s cool. He’s hardcore. (Thanks to Aristos for sending me the JC […]

A Mission for Robert Wenzel

Lately I have been trying to get inside the head of Ben Bernanke: What’s Big Ben up to? If I’m really paranoid, I imagine that he’s rattling that huge upswing in the base, in order to get all the savvy investors loaded up on gold and inflation hedges. And then BAM Ben cuts the monetary […]

Bahama Pundit versus Murphy

This reporter must have attended my talk at the Nassau Institute in The Bahamas. Even though he disagrees with me, I do believe the following is the only actual objection he raises to my analysis (besides citing other economists who recommend different policies): So what should we do about it? Basically nothing, Murphy says, and […]

Health Concern, or Practicing for the Real Thing?

Folks, the government and big business are doing crazy things. Now whether there is a small group of elites orchestrating all this, that’s more debatable. But make no mistake, there are seriously disturbing trends in motion. I just gave a talk in New Braunfels, TX (outside San Antonio), and one of the guys there was […]