Bob Murphy

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Get Ready for the Health Czar

I have not vetted this stuff–i.e. I haven’t gone and checked to see if the language really is in the bill–but Betsy McCaughey has dug up some some truly chilling “reforms” to the medical industry that are currently in the “stimulus” bill. Ahh, we get mugged a trillion dollars in order to pay for the […]

Tom Woods Is Building An Army

Check it out; there are 276 volunteers when I checked. I told Tom he should start eating locusts and honey but his doctor advised against it.

The Daily Capitalist

A fairly new blog. I haven’t had a chance to read much of it, but the banner at the top is awesome.

St. Louis Fed Sends Data to the Memory Hole?

If anyone has a reasonable explanation for this, I would love to hear it. Until then, this is fueling my conspiracy theory view of the world… For my Daily Reckoning article, I included the below graph: Someone wanted to put it in a PowerPoint presentation, and so I emailed her the original source at FRED. […]

Two Fallacies Typical in Policy Discourse

* Roy Cordato debunks the whole “making our children pay for it” fallacy regarding government debt. Note: there is more to the story, and I deal with this in the PIG to Capitalism, but Roy is right in the limited space he devotes to the topic. * I meant to blog about this months ago […]

"Are We All Austrians Now?"

So asks von Pepe. The first oddity he noticed was Arnold Kling’s discussion of James Hamilton’s work stressing “technological frictions.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like he’s stressing the capital heterogeneity of the Austrian school. And then today John Taylor has an extremely ABCTish op ed in the WSJ. I realize the […]

Tom Woods and Burt Folsom on Glenn Beck

Woo hoo! I am friends with Tom via Mises Institute and Burt via Hillsdale College. I relied heavily on Burt’s book for my own (forthcoming) book on the Depression, and although I haven’t read it yet, I’m sure Tom’s book is awesome.

The Merciful God of the "Old Testament"

I’m putting that in quotation marks because our theology teacher (in my Catholic high school) once told us, “Don’t call it that in front of a Jewish person!” But I asked my Jewish neighbor one time if he would be insulted and he said no. In church today the (assistant) pastor was going through various […]