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Murphy Responds to Ezra Klein’s Crazy Fed Proposal

Steve Landsburg took a swing (and missed! But head up Steve no one bats a thousand) at Ezra Klein’s crazy Fed proposal when I was down at Mises U, just in time for me to incorporate it into my talk that day. Thanks to Chad Parish for editing. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Parsing Yglesias

I was reading Steve Horwitz’s reply to Ezra Klein on the gold standard, which in turn led me to Matt Yglesias commenting on a broader commodity standard. Here’s Yglesias: The notion of tying the value of the dollar to a basket of commodities sounds at first glance like a sophisticated alternative to the crudeness of […]

I Hear a Train a Comin, It’s Comin Down the Tracks

Sorry everyone but I am working through some major deadlines and won’t be able to blog much, at least through mid-September. (However, if you just can’t stand it, find me on Facebook, as Robert P. Murphy who lives in Nashville. That’s where I go when I have a lot of work to be done and […]

How Draconian Is the Ryan Plan?

Today at The American Conservative I examine this question. The money excerpt: Hardly. The first jaw-dropping fact—in light of the commentary above—is that Ryan’s plandoesn’t even call for a balanced budget until the year 2040. Don’t believe me? Read it for yourself on page 84 of the actual proposal [.pdf]. There, the analysis proudly declares: “The […]

Reader Mail: Reconciling Anarcho-Capitalism With Christianity

Bill Peacock (a fellow Christian) sent me some concerns about my Mises Academy online class on anarcho-capitalism. With permission, I reproduce portions of his email below and offer my reactions. Note that I am offering this post partly as a way just of airing “alternative views” that are well-reasoned; I am not trying to answer […]

“Messengers for Liberty” Documentary Trailer

Sorry if I already posted this; I get mixed up with FB and the blog, sometimes. Anyway just in case I haven’t posted it here:

The Market for Security (Mises 2012)

This is one of the talks I gave in Auburn in late July. I run through an economic case for complete privatization of judicial, police, and military services.

Potpourri

==> This was a post I did on ethanol policy and food prices a few weeks ago. There’s a surprise. ==> Don’t worry about ethanol mandates causing high food prices. The US military is here to save the day. ==> There’s a famous econ blogger out there, who thinks the authorities need to boost Aggregate […]