Digg is a social bookmarking site that allows users to vote or “Digg” on news stories.
Tomorrow there is an interview with Tim Geithner, conducted by Digg and WSJ, where questions from the Digg users will be asked.
Click on the link above, then sort by “most Dugg” to see what questions were voted on the most. As of today, top questions are below.
I’m interested in this interview, esp. if the moderator actually asks a lot of these top questions.
It seems to me that some 3rd-party reporting on this from like-minded folks at Mises.org might be interesting as well. Did the WSJ really follow through with asking the tough questions its users wanted?
Why has the federal reserve bank never been audited?
Goldman Sachs is a large, profit seeking company which you were/are a part of.
Isn’t it a conflict of interest to funnel tax dollars into this private company using your new power as Secretary of the Treasury, keeping in mind that you and your old buddies benefit monetarily?
Maybe I’m mistaken, but isn’t this a textbook example of political corruption?
What is your position on Ron Paul’s House Resolution 1207? (Which as of the writing of this question has 282 cosponsors.) http://www.auditthefed.com/
You failed to pay some of your federal taxes in 2001. And in 2002. And in 2003. And in 2004. Please explain.
Last week you requested that Congress raise the $12.1 trillion statutory debt limit, saying that it could be breached as early as mid-October. This is in addition to the increase already approved in February this year to accommodate the added debt from the $787 Billion stimulus plan. How is this anything other than runaway government spending? What will it take for us to see US debt go the other direction?
I have upgraded Generation X, my generation, from Hopeless to Mostly Hopeless. Who cares about conflicts of interests. The bigger issue is should these institutions exist and what harm do they do.
The questions should be along the lines of:
Why haven’t you, Obama, the Federal Reserve Board, all congress folks except Ron Paul, etc been arrested? If you have the authority to arrest the principals who made the Liberty Dollar and the run of the mill counterfeiters then why not arrest you folks, the biggest counterfeiters of them all?
Where in the Constitution does it permit the Federal Reserve (A private bank) to exist? If you find somewhere then: If you have one then why can’t I start my own Federal Reserve Bank with my own currency? Or better yet, why can’t I use gold or silver as a currency? Why did the Federal Government raid the Liberty Dollar HQ?
What is the 23trillion dollars of inflation going to do in the future economy?
Why have you and Obama not been arrested for the take over of General Motors and several other companies? Where in the Consitution does it give the federal government the power to seize private corporations and their assets when their officers committed no crimes?
If you visit Digg, you’ll see that there are quite a few ?s along those lines. With the Mises community, I believe you could easily post any of these questions and have us vote on them to get them near the top of the list.
From a communications/conversion point of view that’s a bad idea. Yes, it’s the heart of the matter. It’s also going to fly by most people because they’re not going to give a deep fried ferret turd. It would be nice to spur a revolution against the Fed itself. It won’t happen. What can happen is we can spur revolution agains the current principle players in question and their policies. Most people are not ready to question the Fed’s very existence. Those same people are much more likely to be willing to question and act to put an end to its current policies. If we can align a lot of people against the currnt looters, we’re much more likely to be able to align them against the next batch of looters once they see the polices are all of a kind, and from there it’s much easier to align them against the institutions themselves.
Take heart, eventually they annihilate themselves.
I wonder if being wired to understand markets and implicit cooperation and not just explicit cooperation is a possible evolutionary advance. Maybe we’ll know in a few million years.