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“Get to Higher Ground” now available for purchase

What better way to get your head right for Yellen’s conference? For real, this song grows on ya.

Contra Krugman Episode 21, and Contra Cruise Ready for Booking!

Here’s the link to the latest episode, where Tom and I kinda sorta agree with Krugman’s reaction to Market Monetarists on the Fed and the Great Recession. But perhaps more important, you can now reserve your spot on the 2016 Contra Cruise!!

The Fed’s Magic Trick Won’t Work

Slow Motion Train Wreck

Long-time readers know that I have been warning for years that the U.S. stock market was being driven by Fed policy. Last summer (in 2015) my co-author Carlos Lara and I began a three-part financial/economics seminar on “The Coming Storms” to Paige McKechnie of CCC Corporation in Nashville. We had already done the first one […]

Contra Krugman Ep. 20: Krugman Blames Government Water Crisis on Free Market

Make sure you don’t misinterpret my argument: I’m not saying that any one disaster invalidates a whole system. What I’m saying is that you can’t point to government officials screwing up water supply as *further evidence* that we need government officials to provide water, as Krugman tries to do.

Murphy Twin Spin

==> At IER I explain how the NYT gets it wrong on the carbon tax. ==> Costco magazine featured an exchange between Kshama Sawant (yes the Seattle socialist) and yours truly, on rent control. (The previous sentence was one you never expected to read, I’m sure.) You can adjust the magnification if you want to […]

The Connection Between the Stock Market and the Fed

I notice that Roger Farmer has been following this. The below is the chart I put into my article in the September 2015 issue of the Lara-Murphy Report. I was pointing out how the S&P500 had big drops whenever a round of QE ended, and then again in August when (at that point) people were […]