Presented at the Mises Circle in Manhattan, hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and sponsored by the Story Garschina Charitable Fund, and Anonymous Donor. Recorded on Friday, 14 September 2012, at the Metropolitan Club in New York
“If it ain’t Menger or his direct student Eugene [sic] Von BB, it ain’t Austrian. Sorry #Mises : respectfully, too many mistakes were made.” ~ August 10 tweet by Sandeep Jaitly Last week the Keiser Report , hosted by Max Keiser, featured a segment with Sandeep Jaitly , a follower of Antal Fekete and the author of the above tweet. Now, Jaitly
[The following is a transcript of remarks delivered in the above video for Mises.org/30 .] As some of you may know, I wrote a book in 2009 called Meltdown . It spent ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, had a foreword by Ron Paul, and was about the financial crisis of 2008. I wrote it because I could see there was a conventional
I know I am spending too much time on these crazy LaRouchian claims — see my post on the argument that Austrian economics benefits the plutocrats, and therefore has been promoted by them. You will hear it mentioned that the Rockefeller Foundation funded Ludwig von Mises, and that this proves Austrian economics is supported by the elites, even
For senior scholars with a little spare time, or younger folks who like slaying fallacies, here are two articles to refute. First, Fareed Zakaria, “ The Savior of Europe .” (He’s referring to Mario Draghi, the new head of the ECB.) This is your classic something-for-nothing article: we can create stability, stave off crises, and restore economic
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