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The Inaugural Issue of the Lara-Murphy Report Is Here!

This actually turned out much cooler than I had hoped. Here’s the cover: If you go to this site, you can click on some other samples from the issue. Order it today!

The Empirical Case Against Government Stimulus

Details here. Seriously, did I bust Krugman or did I not? I think the most a Keynesian could say after reading this is, “We have never really had a good test of our policy recommendations, in all of recorded history. But we still cling to the theory that government deficits are good for economic growth.”

“It’s Not About Personnel, It’s About Power”

[UPDATE below.] My “current events” article yesterday at Mises.org, on the Elizabeth Warren brouhaha. An excerpt: By focusing on the “controversial” pick of Warren, the government and its media accomplices subtly shift the fulcrum of the debate. People aren’t questioning whether the government should be seizing vast new powers to regulate the financial markets, even […]

Fiscal Euphemisms

This was my Mises Daily on Monday; because I’m still in Vegas I haven’t had much spare time to blog… In any event I was shell-shocked by a Martin Feldstein op ed, which (naturally) Greg Mankiw loved. An excerpt: “But once we run Feldstein’s prose through the Orwellian Translator, we realize what he’s actually saying: […]

Wenzel and Murphy Togetha, Now You Know You in Trouble

Anyone in the Boston area on Friday, October 29 will not want to miss this… (I am appending the code from Wenzel’s blog post.) Announcing the Murphy-Wenzel Seminars Good news! Fate is pushing both Robert Murphy and Robert Wenzel into Boston on Friday, October 29. They have decided to take advantage of this alignment of the stars and […]

Stimulus? Yet Again?

The first of my weekly “current events” column at Mises.org. You will see I went out on a limb with this inaugural essay by attacking government stimulus programs. You might like this line: Even Obama’s call for the tax-credit extension leaves much to be desired. I am always for a tax cut, period. It returns […]

The Fed and the Ratchet Effect

I apply Bob Higgs’ justly-famous metaphor (or is it an analogy?) to the Fed’s recent announcement that it would replace its maturing MBS holdings with more Treasury debt. My favorite part: Say what you will about Bernanke, he’s one crafty fellow. (As Bob Wenzel warns, “Don’t play poker against Bernanke.”) Whether through luck or design, […]

New Gig at Mises.org

Starting this week, I will be writing a regular Thursday “current events” column at Mises.org. In other words, not only will I regularly have an article on Thursday, but they will allow me to submit the columns that week, so that I can be responding to fairly recent events. Just when Krugman thought it was […]