Bob Murphy

Author Archive

Why Will Obama Be Re-Elected?

Kids kids kids. Many of you doubt my conviction that Barack Obama will be re-elected. But don’t you realize that that is what preoccupies him and all his advisors every day? All of these moves are not out of some devotion to Karl Marx, they are instead expertly calculated to deliver the Democrats campaign contributions […]

Why Did the Government Seize GM?

The elusive von Pepe emails me with his theory that the ultimate reason was to keep GM out of Chapter 11, where a court might overturn union contracts.

How Much Has the US Government Wasted, er, Invested on the Financial Torpedo, er, Rescue So Far?

Take a guess before looking. Thanks to Tim Swanson who is smarter than most of us because he moved to China.

Another Reply to Krugman’s "Hangover Theory"

For those atheist readers on the verge of abandoning this blog, I humbly offer this response to Krugman’s critique of the “hangover theory” of recessions. An excerpt: In the present article, I will set the record straight. Krugman’s theoretical criticism of (what he dismissively calls) the “hangover theory” of recessions is silly, and his empirical […]

Can God Make a Rock So Heavy He Can’t Lift It?

This is a standard arrow in the atheist’s quiver. I’m not saying it is the only or the preferred arrow, but nonetheless I think many, possibly most, atheists think it is a perfectly valid illustration of just how preposterous the very concept of God is, at least the “God” that Western people know. First, it’s […]

Jesus and the Law

One of the trickiest issues for a Christian is the Mosaic Law. Jesus claimed that He was the fulfillment of the Law, and yet in many respects He clearly overturned it. One of the most fascinating passages in all of Scripture occurs in Mt 19: 3-9: 3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, […]

To Love

To love is to see the world as God sees it.

Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?, Part 6

If the following describes the actual sequence, then it would be understandable why God lets really awful things happen occasionally. * The first decision God made was that His creatures would have free will. Only then could He shower them with love, and hence only then would God be complete. (It’s hard to imagine a […]