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Is Our Money Based on Debt?

As the Magic 8-Ball would say, “my sources say yes.” Details here. An excerpt: Different groups often notice different aspects of the same phenomenon — this is the point of the famous tale of the blind men encountering an elephant. When it comes to the Federal Reserve, Austrians usually focus on how its tinkering with […]

Give the First One Away, Then Charge Them When They’re Hooked…

So is our philosophy at the Mises Academy. Below is the first ever lecture at the online Mises Academy. Note that they edited out some of the things you would actually see if you signed up for an Academy class (such as the chat box and “whiteboard” which I will be using in the upcoming […]

Explore the Theory of the Completely Free Society

Here it is, the full infomercial for my upcoming online class on private law and defense. Be sure to check out the screen shot and syllabus. For those of you who are old pros, make sure you see this part too: Something for Everyone While the teaching assistant, Grayson Lilburne, and I were discussing the […]

Jeff Tucker Interviews Me About the Upcoming Principles Class

Apparently Jeff got bored in the beginning, and started moving my head around…

Sign Up for the Lara-Murphy Report!

Carlos Lara and I are launching an electronic newsletter (scroll to the bottom of this page), with the first issue coming out in September. The “Lara-Murphy Report” will come out monthly. Every issue will feature an interview with a prominent financial or economic figure, an article from Carlos applying insurance and/or trust products to household […]

One-Hour Talk on Private Law and Defense

Even those of you who are well-read in the anarcho-capitalist literature may enjoy this talk from Mises U, as I think I came at these issues from a slightly different angle. For example, I came up with the analogy (starting around 24:00) of baby-killing and using the passive voice, on the fly. And really, how […]

The Form of Saving Matters

This one is for serious econ geeks. It is another chapter in the never-ending saga of fighting over fractional reserve banking. The best part: To repeat, [Bill] Woolsey thinks he has answered this objection by telling a story in which the banks do lend money to precisely those firms who would have sold more corporate […]

Murphy Triple Play

Ah, a true triple play, when all three articles literally run on the same day. (Sometimes I merely blog them on the same day, but this is the real deal. Let us pause for a moment of silence.) * At Mises.org I tackle James Galbraith’s glib defense of deficit spending. * At MasterResource I show […]