Ep. 281 Murphy vs. Twitter Econ
Bob tackles recent tweets by Joe Weisenthal and Elon Musk to clarify the Austrian views on recessions and money.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- The Elon tweet and the Joe Weisenthal tweet.
- Bob’s book Understanding Money Mechanics.
- Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
The audio production for this episode was provided by Podsworth Media.
About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
You need to work on your delivery. Your halting speech is very hard to follow when trying to put new concepts together and keep track of them. You digress and halt in the middle of sentences and refine or qualify what you’re trying to say in mid exposition. You write much better than you speak. You also need to work on your analogies and metaphors. You’re really bad at connecting these economic abstractions to concrete reality extemporaneously. You missed several excellent opportunities to concretize ABCT in the minds of your listeners. You strayed away into your “master builder analogy” when you could have just explained what happens to a firm when a Boom-Bust cycle happens. You could have spelled it out in concrete terms instead of latching onto a building analogy.
I’ll have do go back and relisten to the second half, but it really did seem to be almost the perfect “ackshully” demonstration. I figure I must have missed something, since I think I got your point, but I honestly still do not understand why you felt it needed such a thorough beating.