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Obama’s Blatant Contradiction?

We’ve all read considered the irony of a guy getting the Nobel Peace Prize as he escalates the occupation of Afghanistan. OK fine, but someone could argue plausibly that sometimes you need to fight a small war now to avoid a bigger war down the road. I disagree, but fair enough. Yet I don’t think […]

I Challenge Krugman on His Home Court

[UPDATE below.] In this quick blog post Krugman wrote: There are a lot of good things you can say about international trade. But it does not, repeat not, do anything to alleviate a shortage of overall demand. Yes, if you liberalize trade countries will export more. But they will also import more. If you’re worried […]

I Just Emailed With Something Worse Than Banana Fungus…

…or so Paul Krugman would have you believe. On an unrelated business matter, I have been corresponding with someone (who wishes to remain anonymous) who told me the following in an email today: Last night, my friend and I attempted to persuade Paul Krugman to debate the Austrians at his presentation on “Are We Getting […]

Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy Do Their Part for Global Government

I don’t know why even some libertarians (and no I’m not even referring to the recent spat) find it so taboo to occasionally remind people that an elite group is quite literally trying to take over the world. At Copenhagen we’ve got world leaders working on a global agreement to harmonize the intense regulation of […]

Blog Comment of the Week

It comes from yours truly, but hey I am not going to disqualify myself in some faux attempt to avoid narcissism. David Henderson was promoting my EconLib piece on geo-engineering, and “H” (I think he’s Q’s brother) said: “Why should I take seriously the opinions of people who don’t even believe that climate change is […]

Radical Murphy Back in the Hizzouse

After the previous post detailing my wimpy DC panel presentation, I am proud to showcase what will probably be used in the future to prove what a “nutjob” I am (once I get famous enough to be worth discrediting). A sample: The “Texas summit of March 2005” refers to the “Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) […]

The Most Moderate Murphy Mumbling in Memory

Wow I am not kidding, when I delivered my opening remarks on a recent Hill panel,* I thought I was incredibly animated and a fire-breathing laissez-faire radical. But as the video below shows…sorry, try again. Really what happened is that: (a) You are not seeing my two opening jokes that cracked the room up, and […]

"Global Warming Is the Left’s ‘War on Terror’"

So said Jeff Tucker when I told him about my decision to take a job where I would focus on the economics of climate change. What Jeff meant, of course, was that global warming (aka climate change) provided a justification not just for specific tax and spending measures, but could be applied for virtually any […]