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Twin Spin on Inflation Fears and Monetary Aggregates

With my crazy traveling I didn’t post last week’s article on “Investors Finally Fear the Inflation Precipice.” Here’s an excerpt: When Bernanke made his infamous appearance on 60 Minutes, most analysts understandably focused on his absurd claim that he wasn’t printing money. But the thing that most alarmed me was this exchange (starting at about […]

EPA Will Destroy Jobs, Not Create Them

I know my environmental writings upset some of you, but I must press on… In this post I take on a new study from the Political Economy Research Institute. An excerpt: Glancing through Appendix B of the PERI report, in which they explain the method by which they come up with such counterintuitive conclusions, shows […]

Murphy Twin Spin on TSA and Subjective Value

This month I have the EconLib article. It is on privatizing airport security. You have seen some of this discussion in other venues but here I take it further, for example: By taking such critical decisions out of the hands of a government agency—which is not bound by rational cost-benefit calculations and yet, in a […]

Potpourri

Once again my Firefox browser is beginning to look like a ruler, so it’s time to clean house by blogging some of the many things I’ve noted over the past week or two… * Lew Rockwell proves that he’s not always doom-and-gloom, by giving an optimistic interpretation to the events in Egypt. * Jeff Tucker […]

It’s Official! Next Week Murphy Will Debate…

…Jerry Dwyer, an economist with the Atlanta Fed. I am going to be one-half of the lunchtime presentation at the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) meeting in Atlanta on Thursday February 10th. They have graciously made an option for people who just want to go to the lunch and watch the debate. Be careful […]

Lessons for the Young Economist in HTML

Wow this seems like it would have been a lot of work. Thanks Nielsio!

Twin Spin: Debt Ceiling and Sticky Wages

I forgot to blog last week’s “current events” article on Congress and the debt ceiling. Then today, I respond to Karl Smith’s invocation of “sticky wages” as a justification for monetary and fiscal activism. Note that this is not my response to the quasi-monetarists (though it’s applicable); this particular article has been in the queue […]

First Sliced Bread, Now This

I know I know, you go to a cocktail party, and you tell people about the Murphy-Krugman debate, but you can’t do justice to all the funny videos and the serious article exchanges. Well, now you just take the person’s hand and write “KrugmanDebate.com” on it. You’re golden.