A writer in the conservative weekly Human Events, founded in 1944, scolds us for talking about nullification and secession, about which he proceeds to repeat every misconception under the sun. In my latest…
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The Institute for New Economic Thinking is featuring an evening with Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz . Lots of brand new economic thinking will surely take place. So who’s bringing the “Debate Murphy” and “ KrugmanDebate.com ”…
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I made Bob Murphy (whom you know from KrugmanDebate.com , I trust) chuckle involuntarily, I discovered thanks to this two-and-a-half-minute video. This is very hard to do — it’s easy to laugh at…
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Another of my barter-scrip critic’s claims : “Austrian/Keynsian economics are simply a Hegelian Debate wherein un-payable debt/interest contracts prevail with, or without force.” This claim rests on a confusion regarding what…
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I’m filling in for Peter on the Peter Schiff Show tomorrow, so please tune in: 10am-12pm ET at SchiffRadio.com . Listen live for free; no subscription necessary. Tomorrow we’ll be doing…
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Several days ago I managed to get myself drawn into a Facebook exchange with someone who opposes the Federal Reserve and the current banking system in general for not quite…
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I first encountered Professor Gerard Casey of University College, Dublin, in 2004, when I was having a debate on economics with some pretty nasty people. Across the water he was…
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The presidential and vice-presidential debates are coming up.

It’s the job of the Establishment to confine the range of debate within narrow limits, to designate certain opinions as acceptable and others by implication as “extreme,” and to trick…
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Ron Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton is going to head up the campaign of Mitch McConnell. Gee, now why did those incorrigible naysayers have so many unkind words for him?…
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