WOW.
“Only ideas can overcome ideas.”
~ Mises
He is wrong. There is plenty of joy in forcing others to be charitable. That’s why it is so prevalent. You get to feel noble but you don’t actually have to make any sacrifices, it’s like having your cake and eating it too.
The end of cash - National Post - April 10th, 2012
*EDIT: Another relatated story… CBC - From BitCoin to MintChip *
Bingo. It’s just like campaigning for “awareness”.
Need some help; looking for a quote from Milton Friedman… a rare one, him admitting that economics is a priori. It was here on the forums at some point a few months ago.
Much appreciated.
Yes, I saw when you posted this the first time less than two days ago. It would be helpful if you could recall anything about the post at all…what thread it might have been in, what the subject of discussion was, what the quote might have been like, what else may have been included in the post…something.
I’d be really impressed if someone could find this with the information you’ve provided. I’d also be pretty surprised if such a quote even exists (as in, Friedman actually said it). I could come up with at least half a dozen sources where he basically says the opposite.
Haven’t watched this yet but the title and some of the comments seem interesting…
Okay. I laughed out loud.
Re: Yes, I saw when you posted this the first time less than two days ago. It would be helpful if you could recall anything about the post at all…what thread it might have been in, what the subject of discussion was, what the quote might have been like, what else may have been included in the post…something.
I’d be really impressed if someone could find this with the information you’ve provided. I’d also be pretty surprised if such a quote even exists (as in, Friedman actually said it). I could come up with at least half a dozen sources where he basically says the opposite.
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Low content thread. Or one vaguely related. Post was by a fairly ‘drive by’ user, not a complete regular. The comment wasn’t completely random, it had some relevance (eg. someone might have posted a video of Milton Friedman vs. that young kid who looked like Michael Moore but isn’t.. earlier).
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The quote had something to do with Milton Friedman responding to a question, or making a statement that the laws of economics don’t always need to be tested.
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I know you can provide X quotes telling the opposite, so could I. The reason I remember this is b/c here he doesn’t.
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Get the feeling it was near the end of his career. He changed on a lot of positions, this being (maybe) a fundamental one.
Apparently it is okay for the government to protect IP of a USA company but not so much for IP from another country. Kobe beef is one of many such instances.
I remember a video of Friedman saying that we could know things just from economic reasoning - is that what you’re talking about? I can’t recall the topic but I believe it was from the 70’s and he was standing up in front of a black background, addressing the audience to his right (I could be slightly off).
Yes! Definitely rings a bell. I think someone then transcribed the relevant section.
That does sound like the “Micheal Moore kid” conversation Conza mentioned, although I’m pretty familiar with that exchange, and I don’t recall him saying it in that particular one, but it may have occured some other time during the same event. Here’s a collection of videos from that lecture series…but again, I’m pretty familiar with all of those, and I don’t recall anything like that being in them. Could have missed it though, or it could have occurred during some point not covered in those videos (I haven’t seen the full lecture series in its entirety).
Yaaay haha.
Not as clear cut as I remember lol, but there it is.
I… I’ve failed. The challenge ..
I forgot that I was actually the one who posted it!
Brilliant!
Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone! - Sheila Bair for Washington Post
“…Under my plan, each American household could borrow $10 million from the Fed at zero interest. The more conservative among us can take that money and buy 10-year Treasury bonds. At the current 2 percent annual interest rate, we can pocket a nice $200,000 a year to live on. The more adventuresome can buy 10-year Greek debt at 21 percent, for an annual income of $2.1 million. Or if Greece is a little too risky for you, go with Portugal, at about 12 percent, or $1.2 million dollars a year. (No sense in getting greedy.)…”