Bob Murphy

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Vacation in Somalia

There are two problems with this: (1) If I say, “A monopoly institution based on violence makes things worse,” that doesn’t mean, “The absence of such an institution implies paradise.” You might as well say, “Whoa ho ho, you claim to hate dictatorships? Well there weren’t any dictators around during the Mesozoic era, I guess […]

The Peace That Passeth All Understanding

On the plane from Dallas to Nashville, I witnessed the coolest lightning storm I have ever seen. I am not exaggerating, you could see it out the plane’s window for a good 20 minutes, so that means what? It had to be at least 100 miles long? The clouds within which the flashes kept occurring […]

Talk About a Softball

I am in the middle of doing a radio show Saturday night to promote my book. When the show went to its first commercial break, all of a sudden I couldn’t hear anything. Yet, I could tell I was still on the line. So I called the station from my cell phone, while holding the […]

Why the Editor of The New Republic Hasn’t Quieted My Inflation Fears

Bob Roddis sends me this short video of TNR Senior Editor Noam Sheiber explaining why Allan Meltzer was wrong to worry about inflation: When I get some time, I want to return and pick apart the fallacy in the Phillips Curve–the alleged tradeoff between unemployment and price inflation. My starting point will be Brad DeLong’s […]

Don’t Call It a Comeback

Please excuse the lag in posting, but I had quite a hectic schedule this past week. I was in Houston for two events related to my book; below are pictures of me with my chaperone and host David Hutzelman (and a Texas-sized gift basket from Rob and Nancy Bradley) and then with Barry Klein, who […]

Murphy Media

Here is the mp3 of my appearance on the G. Gordon Liddy show. He was actually a really sweet guy, no lie. But during the commercial break somehow it came up that he and other FBI agents were once asked to provide extra security for President Eisenhower. Liddy said that he had been chosen because […]

Hotel Follies

I’m back in the hotel (briefly) before heading out to dinner with the other members of the truth commission participating in Heritage’s “green jobs” panel. I also have some good anecdotes from G. Gordon Liddy’s show this morning. But I’ll post the links and stories later. For now, two hotel points: * Does the Embassy […]

Radical Libertarian Fiction

I don’t have the time right now to read fiction, but J. L. Bryan is giving away–that’s right giving away folks!–his latest novel concerning the completely unrealistic scenario where the US government becomes tyrannical.