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Interview: Fact-Checking the ‘Fact-Checkers’ on COVID-19
In this interview, I discuss how the media are deceiving the public about COVID-19 to advocate extreme lockdown policies that do more harm than good.
Is the Fed ‘Normalization’ Plan Working? It Depends on What’s ‘Normal’
I was interviewed by the Hampton Institute about Fed policy and the state of the economy, corporate stock buybacks, automation versus labor, and Brexit.
Paul Krugman’s Triumph of Unthinking: The Obama Stimulus
Paul Krugman declares that the Obama stimulus plan was good for the economy. But what is his evidence?
Paul Krugman’s Laughable Argument that Wages Aren’t Determined by the Law of Supply and Demand
Paul Krugman makes vain argument that the federal minimum wage should be raised because the law of supply and demand doesn't apply to labor wages.
Krugman Begs the Question: Why Isn’t the Labor Market Clearing?
Krugman's argument that paying people not to work isn't exacerbating unemployment just begs the question of why the labor market isn't clearing.
Paul Krugman’s Strawman Arguments Against Austrian Economics
Paul Krugman's attacks on the Austrian school of economics and its luminaries only serve to illustrate his own intellectual dishonesty.
Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Dishonesty: Unemployment Benefits (II)
Paul Krugman has been arguing that unemployment benefits actually create jobs even though an economics textbook he coauthored states that the consequence of this policy is to exacerbate unemployment by incentivizing people not to work.
Is Opposition to Increasing the Minimum Wage ‘Hardhearted’?
A New York Times editorial last week argued that opposition to increasing the minimum wage amounted to "hardheartedness", but the newspaper knows better.
The Many Faces of Paul Krugman
His numerous contradictions on the subject of minimum wage laws and unemployment benefits reveal the many faces of Paul Krugman.
Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Dishonesty: Wealth Inequality
In his New York Times column earlier this week, Paul Krugman tried to make a case for increasing government spending in order to combat wealth inequality (i.e., wealth redistribution), but some of the premises upon which he constructed his argument illustrate his deep intellectual dishonesty.
Obama’s Push to Increase the Minimum Wage
Earlier this month, Barack Obama gave a speech in which he vowed to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour from the current $7.25. Which is to say he pledged to outlaw even more jobs despite the persistent high unemployment.
Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Dishonesty: Minimum Wages
Paul Krugman's intellectual dishonesty is once again on display when he advocates increasing the federally mandated minimum wage while denying that doing so would exacerbate unemployment. An examination of the argument he presented in his column on December 1 is instructive.
Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Dishonesty: Unemployment Benefits
Paul Krugman's intellectual dishonesty is evident once again in his latest New York Times column, where he writes: Six years have passed since the United States economy entered the Great Recession, four and a half since it officially began to recover, but...
Paul Krugman’s Economic Theology
On Monday, Paul Krugman argued that studies showed no correlation between unemployment benefits and rates of unemployment and criticized anyone who would still argue that paying people not to work was an incentive for them to remain jobless by saying that "too many...
The Lesson From 1937 Is NOT That Government Shouldn’t Cut Spending During a Recession
Those who claim that cutting government spending would worsen the recession often cite 1937 as an argument. The trouble is that this argument makes no sense whatsoever.
Contrary To What You Read In the Media, Fed Policy Will Remain Consistent
The mainstream media continually report that the Federal Reserve has been sending mixed messages about its policy, but the truth is that the Fed's message has remained consistent and the source of the ambiguity is the media itself.
Krugman vs. Krugman on the Effects of Unemployment Benefits
Krugman tries to deceive his readers into thinking that it is merely a prejudicial slander from conservatives to suggest that unemployment benefits create a perverse incentive for people not to find work, despite the fact that he knows perfectly well that it is true.
Krugman: If an Economic Policy Doesn’t Work, Just Do MORE of It!
If only the government had spent $2.4 trillion instead of a mere $800 billion, then it would have been effective.
Krugman vs. Hazlitt on Minimum Wage: Who Is Really ‘Wrong About Everything’?
Paul Krugman lambasted Austrian economist Henry Hazlitt as having been "wrong about everything", including the minimum wage. So who's right?
About the Author
I am a truly independent journalist and Research Fellow at The Libertarian Institute whose work is focused on exposing dangerous mainstream propaganda that serves to manufacture consent for criminal government policies.
I'm the author of several books, including Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict The War on Informed Consent, Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman: Austrian vs. Keynesian Economics in the Financial Crisis, and The War on Informed Consent, which features a Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Topics I have covered over the years include 9/11 and the "war on terrorism", the war on Iraq, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy, and so-called "public health" policies including vaccines and the COVID-19 lockdown madness.
The aim of my work is to empower people with the knowledge needed to see through the lies and to create a brighter future for our children.
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