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I’m cleaning out the pages from my iPhone’s browser, so some of the later links below are old (but good). ==> I know a lot of you travel through Argentina in late August, so make sure you stop by for my keynote address. ==> A good episode of the Tom Woods Show featuring Walter Block […]

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==> Gene Callahan sent me this very interesting piece on Bob Dylan and Christian Zionism. ==> Rob Bradley gets a letter in the WSJ about the Paris talks. ==> Apparently you can’t read the Senate torture report if you’re in the Executive branch. ==> Come see Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist and me in Houston […]

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==> No other economist comes up with stranger blog ideas than Nick Rowe. ==> These people are shameless. ==> Rob Bradley pushes back against climate alarmism. (If you’re thinking, “C’mon Murphy, who are these ‘alarmists’ you keep talking about?”–see the previous link.) ==> David Beckworth wants Congress to rein in the wild Fed (sort of).

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==> Tom Woods has had a bunch of interesting episodes lately at his podcast. You know, the one that has 50% fewer hosts and is 50% as cool. ==> Second only to his posts that transformed my understanding of government debt burdens, this is my favorite work by Nick Rowe. ==> Cliff Asness is really […]

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==> I’m tied up on this business trip, so somebody please explain to Scott Sumner the difference between time deposits and demand deposits. ==> BTW I am tough but I am fair: I think I forgot to blog it at the time, but this Sumner post on Krugman from September was the best takedown I […]

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==> This is an unexpectedly good episode of the Tom Woods Show. He debates Matt Zwolinski on a basic income guarantee. I went into it thinking it would be like debating whether Kevin Spacey was a better Lex Luthor than Gene Hackman, but actually it was very entertaining. ==> An Austrian tries to assert her […]

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==> Tyler Cowen links to this funny story. They should print up EIN buttons. (Exorcise Inflation Now) ==> Peter Schiff on the death of his father, Irwin. ==> I call a blogging foul on Scott Sumner. Ray Lopez applauds me. (I promise I’m not Ray.)

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==> If you were bothered by my pontifications on the Ahmed clock case, don’t read Gene Callahan. ==> Richard Ebeling doesn’t view low interest rates as tonic for an ailing economy. ==> ZeroHedge on Mark Spitznagel–we ain’t seen nothin yet. (Sung to the tune of Sinatra’s, “The Worst Is Yet to Come.”) ==> Ben Powell […]