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Supply & Demand

For my Mises Academy class I got stuck on a runway in Little Rock, and missed the live lecture, which was to be on Supply & Demand. Since it’s such a timeless topic, I decided to make the lecture publicly available by hosting them at my YouTube channel. For convenience I’ve broken the lecture up […]

Awkward: CBO More Than Doubles Estimate of Negative Employment Effect of “ObamaCare”

[UPDATE below.] At Mises Canada I explain the CBO’s new report that has people guffawing. Note: Please be careful in how you cite their analysis; it’s not really accurate to say, “CBO says ObamaCare will destroy 2 million jobs!” (Don’t get me wrong, it may very well do just that, but my point is, that’s […]

My EconLib Article on the Minimum Wage Debate

Learn it, live it, love it. The key graph, with my commentary: In Figure 1 below, for diagrammatic simplicity, I assume that the initial market-clearing wage for low-skilled labor is $7.25 per hour. At this $7.25 wage rate, two million workers have jobs. Then, the federal government imposes a wage floor of $10.10 per hour. […]

Further Thoughts on Schiff on the Daily Show

Here at Mises Canada. Note, apparently they fixed their supply & demand graph in the video.

My Response to Krugman on Mises on the Great Depression

My latest post at Mises Canada. The intro: Paul Krugman recently piggybacked upon a critique of Mises’ views on the Great Depression. There’s really nothing new in Krugman’s post, but as an ardent Misesian with a book on the Great Depression and a public vendetta against Krugman…I am pretty much contractually obligated to write a response. Incidentally, I’ll […]

The Flotation Movement

[This story was inspired by my recent trip to the “Save Long Island” forum.–RPM] The Flotation Movement A Short Story by Bob Murphy Joseph looked out on the vast ocean, the cool night breeze whipping his hair as he drank the last of his six-pack on the top deck of the ocean liner. Joseph became […]

Potpourri

Yikes I’ve been traveling lately and am way behind with some of these… ==> Niels van der Linden replies to my comment on his critique of Rothbard. ==> Richard Ebeling (my teacher in undergrad) reflects on the Great Society. ==> Megan McArdle on health insurance bailout. Joe Salerno provides more details on this interesting story […]

Bob Murphy vs. Bill Still

It’s the master of disaster versus the Money Master. It was supposed to be about money, but then we took off the gloves and started talking anarchy. Oh boy. When I saw the crowd was with him early on, I had to break out my Jimmy Stewart impression. I wasn’t screwing around. Incidentally, I have […]