All Posts

Archive for All Posts

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.

Barro on the Great Depression

Here’s a pretty interesting interview with Robert Barro on the Great Depression (HT2MR). He actually makes a distinction that you don’t normally see (and which I didn’t get into in my book). Normally the issue is, “Do we print more money or run higher deficits?” But here is a more nuanced take: [Browser]: So what […]

Does Religion Belong in Science and Politics?

In my curmudgeonly post on the Miss California controversy–fired off after a few days of little sleep–I provoked cries for clarification from my readers. So at the risk of digging myself deeper, let me use this Sunday’s “religious post” to elaborate. First off, I hate the very notion of the government having anything to do […]

Murphy on G. Gordon Liddy Show

I am going to be traveling all week. On Monday I will be participating in a Heritage Foundation event on “green jobs,” but while in DC I will be on (in studio) the G. Gordon Liddy show.* (You can check here to see how to listen live.) Obviously I’ll put a link to it after […]