Robert P. Murphy holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University, and is Research Assistant Professor with the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. He is the author of many books and hundreds of articles on economics in scholarly and popular periodicals.Murphy publishes the Lara-Murphy Report, a monthly financial publication, with Carlos Lara, and co-hosts the weekly podcast Contra Krugman. His website is ConsultingByRPM.com.