All Posts

Archive for All Posts

Illinois Governor Arrested for Trying to Sell Obama’s Vacant Seat

This story is incredible. (It seems EPJ has more details than the CNBC story.) This episode reminds us all that the feds run the show. You have to suspect that if they decide to wiretap a governor, they will eventually accumulate some really damning phone calls. (Even if not criminal, certainly politically embarrassing.) In any […]

Krugman Talks Sense (though ungrammatically)

I can’t believe it; Krugman is against a bailout for the Big Three and says such a transfer would merely be a short-term solution reflecting a lack of willingness to accept the failure of a large industry. (HT2 Pepe) But look at this: Nobel economics prize winner Paul Krugman said Sunday that the beleaguered U.S. […]

I Provoke a Response in Forbes on Green Recovery

Google Alerts just, well, alerted me to this Forbes’ piece that ran on December 2. The authors are responding to my op ed on “Green Recovery.” Here’s a good excerpt of their counterattack: Unfortunately, the emphasis of Murphy’s article was on the “illusionary” nature of a “green recovery.” The fact is, the economic and environmental […]

David Henderson Provides Some Perspective on Job Losses

Duh, I can’t believe I didn’t think of this. Talk about confirmation bias (since I have been so gloomy): On CNBC this morning, the talking heads pitched the new job loss figures in the most negative way. They focused on the fact that the 533,000 jobs lost (according to payroll data) were the highest in […]

Murphy on Pete Kaliner Radio Show, Talking PIG to Capitalism

This interview (mp3) actually aired the Sunday before Thanksgiving, but what with my traveling I forgot to post it… Great for postponing whatever project you are supposed to be working on today.

Physical Intervention

My pastor today gave a sermon on trusting God, and he relayed some personal stories of times when he “should have” gotten really hurt and didn’t. (The most interesting was when he was 10 or 11, he somehow set a golf ball on fire, and then dumped a 5-gallon tank of gasoline on it.) For […]

Man Jailed for Neglecting Child Support…But the Child Wasn’t His

My wife alerted me to this story: A Philadelphia man was forced to pay more than $12,000 in child support for another man’s daughter and spent two years in jail for falling behind on payments. And of course: He served four six-month jail terms for not keeping up with support payments between 2001 and 2005, […]

One Last Late-Night YouTube from the 1980s

This is the fight between Optimus Prime and Megatron from the Transformers movie. Is it just me, or did Prime barely touch Megatron? I get why Prime is on the verge of death, but what happened to Megatron? He took a big fall was all I saw…