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I Need a Stage Name

This is getting ridiculous. Besides the golf announcer, a million athletes, and a Boston College economics professor, there are just too many of us Bob Murphys walking around. I came across this blog post and was getting really upset when it said: Perhaps, argues Bob Murphy, Greenspan was motivated by his Objectivist beliefs to act […]

Jesus and Parables

Last night I read a certain passage that had always puzzled me, and for whatever reason it clicked into place on this latest reading. In Matthew 13 Jesus gives the “parable of the sower” to the masses: Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; […]

Glenn Greenwald Analyzes David Brooks

In another great article, GG takes an apparently innocuous statement by David Brooks: What I’m really annoyed by, though, is the withdrawal of Tom Daschle. What are we, a nation of virgins?…Of course, Obama asked for all this with his cynical promise to ban lobbyists from his administration. There’s a word for lobbyists: experts. Some […]

Rob Bradley Names Names

…in the energy movement. I gather that he will have more posts on this topic in the future. Also, I want to once again give a generic plug for MasterResource. If you scroll down the main page, you’ll see they have all their big guns in the rotation now.

Peter Schiff Tells China How to Take Over the World

Seriously, can you imagine if the Chinese implemented Schiff’s scheme (HT2 Tim Swanson)? (You don’t need to watch the whole clip; you’ll hear it in the beginning.) The Saudis couldn’t do it realistically, because they can’t repel a US invasion if push comes to shove. But nobody’s invading China in the next ten years.

Quick Kids, Spot the Threat!

Sometimes I think it’s useful to drop our abstract theories of social hierarchies and naively look at the world. In that spirit, check out the photo below from a WSJ story about the drug war in Mexico. Now if you didn’t have any other information to go on–or better yet, if a visitor from the […]

Tom and Burt Are On Top of Their Game

In Amazon’s economics category (HT2LRC), beating out Krugman, Galbraith, and all my friends. Of course, Krugman’s book has been out for a while, and I think Galbraith’s was written before Lincoln was shot. Still, good job, Tom and Burt!

Murphy on Pete Kaliner Radio Show

On Thursday night I reappeared on the Pete Kaliner show. Here is the link where you can play the audio. Also, there is a point where he accidentally hangs up on me, and when I come back I say, “I thought maybe the Obama Administration didn’t like the way the conversation was going” (or something). […]