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Spotlight on Jacob Lovell: The Murphy-Krugman Campaign Breaks $5,000

Somebody send that boy a toaster! A mere 37 or so hours after launching, the campaign to get Krugman to debate me on business cycle theory has now raised $5,000 in pledges. For those of you who thought it was a funny idea but didn’t want to take 6 minutes to pledge money that you […]

Latest Update on Murphy-Krugman Debate Campaign

Holy cow everybody, this is really taking off! I was out of commission for a few hours picking up my son, getting my car inspected, etc. (Cute anecdote: I told my son we had to get the car [emissions] inspected because of the government, and he told me he didn’t know what the government was. […]

Pledge Your Support for the Murphy-Krugman Debate!

Last week I saw the Facebook movie and got all fired up. On the car ride home this idea occurred to me. Now I just wait for Sean Parker to see this video and I’m golden. To see the specifics of the campaign (and to donate), click this icon: To see some of Murphy’s critiques […]

Potpourri

* My recent interview on the Victory Report. It’s familiar ground for most of you, but maybe you’re bored on your commute. We talk about monetary theory and what the average Joe should do. * Silas Barta has a saucy post relating to my new book [.pdf] on whole life insurance and fractional reserve banking. […]

Come See the Murphy-Wenzel Seminars at the Historic Omni Parker House in Boston

On Friday, October 29, Bob Wenzel of EconomicPolicyJournal.com and I will host an afternoon and then evening seminar at the historic Omni Parker House in downtown Boston. The two seminars will feature independent content: * During the lunch seminar from 12pm – 2pm, Murphy will discuss 5 reasons investors should study Austrian economics, rather than […]

Putting Austrian Business Cycle Theory to the Test

I actually have some empirical analysis in this one. Target: Krugman.

Vote for Bob!

Hey, if you’re into this sort of thing, then feel free to vote for The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal as the book of the month in the Freedom Book Club.

My Mises Column on the Econ Nobel

Here is my column at Mises today on the new Nobelists. I walk through a watered-down numerical example to give you a flavor of their labor models, in case you aren’t quite able to read the actual journal articles but you want a little bit more meat than I’ve seen in most second-hand accounts. Then […]