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My Presentation on Austrian Economics at “Save Long Island” Forum
This was truly a great event; I learned a lot from the other speakers. Here was what I told the crowd: P.S. I also debated “The Money Masters” man, Bill Still, the day before the above talk. I will post on that separately.
Read moreTwo New Posts
At Mises Canada I have two posts up: ==> The first gives yet another illustration of my claim that Bernanke has been the FDR of central banking. This time, I discuss a HuffPo writer calling on Janet Yellen to “save the planet” (his term). ==> In this post, I endorse Russ Roberts’ complaint about Krugman’s […]
Read more“The Tension Between Economics and Religion”
The previous post reminded me that I touched on the familiar antipathy of Christianity to usury in my Lou Church memorial lecture at the Mises Institute in March 2006.
Read moreTruth Is Stranger Than Bryan Caplan’s Fiction
From my new post at Mises Canada: Caplan then goes on in his post to lament the odd fact that people do not respond to this potential of trillions of dollars in global wealth (via labor mobility) the way Caplan claims they would respond to the discovery of trillions of dollars of Leonium buried under […]
Read moreUnit Humor
I just tweeted this: Guy walks into a bar in Minnesota: “Damn it’s minus 40 degrees out there!” The bartender says “Celsius or Fahrenheit?” Guy answers, “Both.” Follow me @BobMurphyEcon…and let your life begin.
Read moreMemorial Video for the “Night of Clarity” 2013
Matt Harris (with help from wife Pacey) put together this excellent memorial of the event Carlos Lara and I hosted last summer in downtown Nashville. Stay tuned for the NOC 2014!
Read moreKeynesians Wrong on Sequester Just Like Stimulus
My latest post on Mises Canada. The money part: For example, in February 2013 Paul Krugman wrote a piece titled “Sequester of Fools,” in which he referred to the “fiscal doomsday machine” that was being unleashed upon the nation. He claimed that the sequester would cost 700,000 jobs, and justified this number by linking to a Macroeconomic […]
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