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The Policeman Is Not Your Friend, Fake Abandoned Car Edition
William Grigg at LRC (sorry I lost the link) tips us off to this story. A couple in Austin saw a suspicious car (keys in ignition, windows rolled down, rope and bikini top in the back seat) parked on their street. They asked their neighbors, and nobody knew anything. So they called the police, who […]
Read moreHow Many Popes Can You Fit Into the Mises Institute?
Tom Woods argues that just one would be great. Here he caves in to peer pressure and writes a response to the Pope’s encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. Here’s Tom’s thesis: Caritas in Veritate strikes me as at best a relatively unremarkable restatement of some familiar themes from previous social encyclicals. At worst, it is bewilderingly […]
Read moreAnarchy and Iraq: Murphy Responds to Gonzalez
In a recent article on Free Advice, Iraq vet Edward Gonzalez explained how his experience with “anarchy” in Iraq made him doubt the armchair theorizing from people like Murray Rothbard and me. Obviously, I have been running Gonzalez’s articles because he is quite possibly the only human on Earth who:(a) Saw combat in Iraq,(b) Is […]
Read moreKrugman vs. Murphy on the Economy: Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves
Back at the end of May, I was really excited when Paul Krugman wrote that inflation wasn’t going to be a problem anytime soon. Up until then, Krugman and my forecasts had been basically the same; I thought the huge deficits, power grabs, and monetary injections were going to wreck the economy, whereas Krugman had […]
Read moreNews Anchors Heart Big Government
I liked this line: “The mainstream media talks about government like Patriots fans talk about Tom Brady or Colts fans talk about Peyton Manning.”
Read moreMy Interview With Q1 Publishing on…the Great Depression
This interview was taped over the phone, and then they typed it up. So that’s why my answers are so conversational…
Read moreMurphy vs. Madrick: A One-Night Pay Per View Extravaganza
The issue is the New Deal. We go two rounds. I haven’t even read Jeff Madrick’s final response yet; for all I know he wins by KO. I’ll let you guess the sides of the debate. (Here’s a hint: Madrick has a book titled, The Case for Big Government.) If you want to grab a […]
Read moreFed Already Monetizing the Debt
Chris Brunner sends along this sobering report (via Karl Denninger via ZeroHedge). Chris Martenson did some sleuthing with CUSIPs and (apparently) discovered that the Fed just bought 47% of the fresh Treasury debt that was issued the week before! Good grief! Just last week, when the auction results were announced it was trumpeted to great […]
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