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Tom Woods and I Talk About the Carrier Deal

This isn’t Contra Krugman; instead it’s episode 799 of the Tom Woods Show.

Ben Powell and I Talk International Trade

We taped this before the election, in case that matters.

Defenses of Trade Deficits That Could Mask Danger

This EconLog post from Scott Sumner, and the accompanying post from Don Boudreaux, provide much useful pushback against typical worries about trade deficits. However, Sumner in particular makes some strong claims that are misleading, and the two posts together could understandably make critics think that free traders are naive and distracting people from a genuine […]

Murphy Interview With Unbiased America

This turned out pretty interesting.

Murphy vs. Vox Day on Free Trade

I don’t regret anything I said in this debate, but I don’t think we had time to really tackle some of Vox’s more fundamental worries. I can understand why a Vox Day fan would not have changed his mind after listening to this. Anyway, I know you guys are always gentle with me in the […]

Free Trade Debate

This Friday I’m having an online debate on free trade with Vox Day, hosted by Tom Woods. You can register to watch it live here.

A Falsifiable (Back) Test of the Krugman-Callahan Hypothesis

As if to help crystallize my attempts to get Daniel Kuehn to see why Krugman has been aggravating me on the issue of free-trade advocacy, Gene has a great post in which he suggests that it’s all due to the pay of Big Imports. Can we all agree that a good test would be my […]

Sneak-Peek Murphy Mises Academy Lectures on Free Trade

I was traveling and had to miss a lecture on free trade for the last Mises Academy class I taught, so I pre-recorded them. (Yes, as George Carlin would complain, this means I recorded them before I recorded them.) Now that the class has been closed for a bit, I thought it would be OK […]