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Forget Nelson Mandela and Volunteering

Get a job at Cracker Barrel, and actually serve the public, says Bob Murphy.

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6/27/2011

How To Argue for the Gold Standard

And refute the common myths and lies.

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6/16/2011

The Capitalist in the Hat

Bob Murphy on entrepreneurship and Dr. Seuss.

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4/19/2011

The Fed Is a Sinister Joke

Thanks to the Internet, more and more of us know it, says Bob Murphy.

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3/19/2011

WaPo Smears DiLo

Bob Murphy on the Fed-inspired Washington Post hit piece against Tom DiLorenzo.

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2/16/2011

‘Free-Market Zombies’

Bob Murphy on Paul Krugman vs. Ron Paul.

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12/24/2010

The Trouble With Official ‘Free-Market’ Economics

Bob Murphy on David Frum, right-wing Keynesians, Chicagoites, and the Fed.

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12/14/2010

The Brewing Cyber Wars

11 principles for anarcho-capitalists and antiwar activists, by Bob Murphy.

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12/13/2010

Now, Tell Me, Why Is Amazon Being Singled Out?

There is still no convincing explanation for the "boycott," says Bob Murphy.

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12/8/2010

Why Single Out Amazon?

Bob Murphy on the boycott.

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12/4/2010

Federal Fakeroo

Bob Murphy on the bogus security-freedom tradeoff.

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11/27/2010

Herbert Barack Hoover

Bob Murphy on lying lefists and the truth about Keynesianism.

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8/2/2010

Creating Money Out of Thin Air

Robert Murphy on creepy fractional-reserve banking.

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6/15/2010

David Frum Is Wrong and Ron Paul Is Right

Bob Murphy on fascist Franklin and gold.

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3/31/2010

An Economist’s Case Against God

Bob Murphy dissents.

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1/26/2010

Ushering in the Amero?

Bob Murphy on the Bernanke-Obama plot to destroy the dollar, and why.

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12/14/2009

The Hope of Victory

This is what secular libertarians need, says Bob Murphy.

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11/16/2009

Bloody Fiat Money

How else you gonna kill 600,000 Americans?

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9/14/2009

Don’t Worry About Fed Destructionism

They have an "exit strategy."

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7/28/2009

Should We Fear Deflation?

If only!

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7/17/2009

If Bob Murphy Were Extremely Rich and Powerful

And had no conscience…

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7/16/2009

The Hitman Doctor

Bob Murphy on government medicine.

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6/26/2009

Why I Expect Serious Stagflation

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6/17/2009

Hyperinflation Is Coming

Can we put lying counterfeiters Greenspan and Bernanke in the stocks?

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4/23/2009

Obama’s New Deal Won’t Work

Anymore than the first one did.

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4/20/2009

Explaining the Boom and the Bust

Only Austrians can do both.

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3/31/2009

The Threat of Hyper-Depression

Bob Murphy on what we face.

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3/27/2009

Defend the Gold Standard

It's our only monetary hope, says Bob Murphy.

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3/17/2009

Raise Prices in the Recession

Robert Murphy on the only way out for banks.

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2/7/2009

‘Do You Austrians Have a Better Idea?’

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2/3/2009

Depressionomics

Is there any such thing?

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1/13/2009

Making Wall Street More Crooked

Bob Murphy on the SEC.

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1/8/2009

The Guide to Mises’s Human Action

Robert Murphy on his revolutionary Study Guide.

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12/18/2008

The Fed Committed the Housing Boom

Bob Murphy on the evidence.

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12/17/2008

Depressions Are Curative

Bob Murphy on what the mainstream doesn't understand.

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11/25/2008

Who Caused the Housing Bubble?

Bob Murphy on the truth vs. Greenspan.

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11/20/2008

Consumers Don’t Cause Recessions

Bob Murphy on who does.

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11/13/2008

Stop the Fed Before It Kills Again

Bob Murphy on poison medicine for a sick economy.

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11/7/2008

Sushi and the Economic Crisis

Bob Murphy explains what happened and why.

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10/24/2008

The Social Value of Stock Speculators

Bob Murphy on why it's high (an oldie but goodie).

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10/4/2008

The Great Bank Robbery of ’08

Bob Murphy on what the bailout is, and what it means.

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10/1/2008

Naked Power

Oldie but goodie from Bob Murphy on the vicious assault on short-sellers.

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9/23/2008

Paulson-Bernanke National Socialism

Crazed, expensive, tyrannical, and destabilizing.

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9/22/2008

Neocon ‘Privacy’

The State, of course, is no problem at all.

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8/27/2008

Neocon Welfare King

Bob Murphy on President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia.

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8/16/2008

Live It Up, the Dollar Is Dead?

Bob Murphy on personal debt.

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8/12/2008

Batman Isn’t George W. Bush

Maybe the Joker is.

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7/31/2008

Malignant Fairy Tales

Bob Murphy on neocon lies about the occupation of Iraq.

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4/29/2008

A Rejoinder to David Frum

On the gold standard, from Robert Murphy.

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1/3/2008

Ron Paul and the Economics of Slavery

Once again, he makes Americans think, says Robert Murphy.

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12/27/2007