Bob Murphy Show

Adam Haman returns to ask Bob about this year's economics Nobel (Memorial Award) laureates.

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• Tabarrok on Woodford. Nunes on Woodford.
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Bretigne is a former libertarian journalist who is now devoted to children's fiction. She joins Bob to discuss her latest work, "Elixir of Fear." They also discuss Bretigne's history as a journalist in Hong Kong.

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• The YouTube version of this episode.
• Bretigne Shaffer's substack. The link for Elixir of Fear.
• BMS ep 75 featuring Bretigne on California's mandatory vaccinations.
• The link for Bob's children's book, The Three Lads and the Lizard King.
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Adam Haman breaks the long hiatus to help Bob break down Trump's recent statements on interest rates (and trade deficits).

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• The YouTube version of this episode.
• Bob explains connection between current account deficit and capital account surplus.
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• The HamanNature substack.
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Dan McCarthy is editor of Modern Age. He joins Bob to discuss his provocative piece in The Spectator.

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• Dan's article in The Spectator.
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Adam Haman returns to help Bob dissect Neil deGrasse Tyson's recent complaints about the lack of government funding for science.

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• The YouTube version of this episode.
• Neil deGrasse Tyson laments science funding.
• The Bell Labs paper that laid out the Kelly criterion. Kealey's case against public funding of science. The myth of basic science.
• Bundt & Murphy test Mandelbrot's hypothesis for residual economic variables.
• This episode’s sponsor, The Scott Horton Academy.
• The HamanNature substack.
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Economist David Beckworth joins Bob to analyze a recent debate on Calvinism between Dinesh D'Souza and Guillaume Bignon, hosted on the Gospel Truth podcast. Both David and Bob approach the issue as Molinists.

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• The YouTube version of this episode.
• The Bignon-D'Souza debate on Calvinism.
• David Beckworth's substack. His podcast Macro Musings.
• Bob lays out his framework of reconciling natural laws with free will and God's sovereignty.
• William Lane Craig's The Only Wise God. Kenneth Keately's Salvation and Sovereignty. Kirk MacGregor Luis de Molina.
• Bob's debate with David on ZeroHedge on the Fed.
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Adam Haman returns to help Bob analyze the ZeroHedge debate on the Iran war between Dave Smith and Alan Dershowitz. The famous lawyer had but one argument, and it was ridiculous at that. Dave also displayed quick-witted responses.

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• The YouTube version of this episode.
• The ZH debate between Dave Smith and Alan Dershowitz.
• This episode’s sponsor, The Scott Horton Academy.
• The HamanNature substack.
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On Twitter and YouTube, Dinesh D'Souza has been criticizing Calvinism (i.e. Reformed theology) for weeks, leveling both scriptural but also philosophical and moral objections. Bob adopts his version of Molinism to argue that God's sovereignty can be reconciled with man's free will (and hence moral culpability).

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• Dinesh D'Souza's critique of Calvinism.
• RC Sproul's YouTube series introducing systematic Reformed theology.
• William Lane Craig quick intro to Molinism.
• The BMS ep. 158, A Geometric Analogy to Reconcile Paul and James.
• Installments one and three in the BMS series on an Interdisciplinary Commentary on the Gospels, laying out Bob's view of free will vs. determinism, and how to reconcile Arminianism with Calvinism.
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Taking a recent Twitter exchange as a springboard, Bob argues that George Selgin has unwittingly conceded the entire argument they had at the SoHo Forum: namely, fractional reserve banking by its very essence causes a mismatch between the community's saving and the funds made available for loans via the banks.

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• Keith Vencel's new book, A New Monetary System.
• The SoHo Forum debate between Selgin and Murphy.
• Selgin's posts on ABCT and FRB (one and two).
• Bob's Human Action episode on Mises and FRB.
• Bob's QJAE article on FRB and the business cycle.
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Adam Haman returns to discuss the Japan/US bailout of the yen, and Japan's relation to the US position. What does it signify for QE and deficit spending?

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• This episode’s sponsor, The Swan Bros.
• The HamanNature substack.
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