Bob Murphy

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Murphy on Fox News

On Friday, June 26, 2009 I had a brief appearance on Stuart Varney’s show. (Here is the clip from June 26, 2008 when I was also on his show.) In case you’re wondering, I wasn’t being thoughtful in between questions; there is a slight delay.

What’s Wrong With This WSJ Snapshot?

Von Pepe sends along the following screen shot. Notice anything ironic about the two circled stories?

Austrians: Our Victory Is Complete, Part II

In an earlier post, I quoted Scott Sumner who (jokingly) said that ABCT had captured the hearts and minds of the intelligentsia. Today I impulsively followed a Google Ad (from my inbox, not from this blog, which would violate all sorts of contractual provisions) to this in-your-face site, which declares: At the end of the […]

Avoid Hardee’s of Valdosta #6

This is mostly a note to myself, but some of you who are in the Florida / Georgia area and who also patronize fast food restaurants may benefit as well: On a recent road trip, I picked the wrong Hardee’s. The floors were dirty, the shake machine was out of commission, the soda was flat, […]

More Rosy Forecasts From the CBO

Earlier I linked to an IER critique of the CBO’s scoring of Waxman-Markey. Bob Roddis sends me this Yglesias discussion of the super bargain TARP plan. You thought taxpayers were out $700 billion? Nah, don’t worry; the CBO is predicting only $159 billion in total losses on the plan, of which a mere $69 billion* […]

Cowen and Yglesias (!) Making Sense on Climate Change

Tyler Cowen approvingly quotes Matt Yglesias on the dangers of starting a carbon tariff war: The bottom line about the international aspects of climate change is that the very idea of an effective response assumes the existence of a generally cooperative international environment. It doesn’t assume the non-existence of the odd “rogue” state here or […]

For the Record: The BLS’ NSA CPI circa June 2009

In a recent post [link to be added], Robert Wenzel spelled out something that had been implicit in my views. I’ll recapitulate the argument here, and then I’ll list the BLS’ current figures so we have a convenient record later on. For a while I’ve been warning that actual Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation has […]

More Bluffing From Krugman

This is great; sometimes I really just love the Internet. Paul Krugman shoots his mouth off about an Arrow article, and Bryan Caplan and then David R. Henderson spank him. Naughty Nobelist! Such a public comeuppance is only possible with the Internet. I was pretty sure Krugman was bluffing about the Arrow paper, but I […]