Kinda ironic that this thread has brought about a spambot post.
Celente, Rockwell has many such moments, Gary North varies between excellent and off his rocker. Other than that I don’t really keep track of the names.
What do you guys think of David Kramer?
Ben Shalom Bernanke and similar is a fraud, Gelente is some what a doomer and speaks some truths on mainstream tv, not what i would consider a fraud.
Gelente is a bit of a sensationalist and tries to speak the demise of the dollar in to action. I don’t agree with everything he says and do not particularly enjoy listening to him.
Is that really his middle name?
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Wait, it is. How can Ron Paul say Federal Reserve wants war when its top honcho’s middle name is Peace?!
You can know what I think about David Kramer by my signature, Prateek.
David Kramer is nuts. Isn’t he the one who imagined all sorts of villainous motives and avoidance tactics because Pete Boettke didn’t explicitly endorse gold at a cocktail party?
Yeah. David Kramer wrote:
“By the way, since the Second Amendment recognizes the right of citizens to bear arms in order to form a militia to defend themselves against a tyrannical Federal Government (and you thought the Second Amendment was about personal defense–shame on you), I actually think it is a good sign that the Feds are starting to fear the sprouting up of their enemies: the Militias.”
WTF, man? This guy actually thinks militia will sprout up in US? And will have a chance against the largest military machinery in the world? And he thinks the authorities…fear such a thing? In which world does he live?
And now this:
"Unfortunately, I live in New “World Order” York where the Nazis here have forced Amazon to charge sales tax. "
What is this, I don’t even…
A true critic of the criminal state (but I repeat myself*, especially regarding the American GUNverment), but I “wonder” and am shocked (shocked!) how a writer can cram (or should I say “Kram”?) so many parentheticals, side notes, modifiers, plays on words, and bits of sarcasm into a single one-sentence post.
*Murray accurately called the state a “gang of thieves writ large”
(LRC does heroic work in converting countless social democrats and neocons to classic liberalism. But Kramer’s writing style drives me up the wall. 
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I have to skip reading and watching anything by Celente because he is such a downer. There’s nothing I can get out of Celente that I can’t get out of Marc Faber et al. and without an pessimistic attitutde. Dr. Doom (Faber) can give you the most depressing analysis but he always finishes off with “but that doesn’t mean that we can’t make money from now till then.”
Lol. Winning!
Do you really want to go down this road?
Not here. If you’re going to make a claim, substantiate it, or keep your opinion to yourself when it comes to staff or friends of the Institute.
Apparently you are unaware of the American revolution or the military history of Afghanistan.
I asked the same thing when you nominated student to speak on libertarianism.
David has always answered my emails promptly and politely and conducts his relations with people around LvMI and LRC with a lot of class and style. Certainly much more than is usually on display in this forum, where his critics have rarely if ever written anything that could be passed off as a low grade lunch menu, let alone a manifesto of liberty.
Yes, haters gonna hate. I accept that, because I am a random person on the internet writing random things that will be read by a total of no more than 100 people (at most) and then forgotten by the next week.
In the end, does it all matter?
Does anything matter on the internet?
Do over-the-top things written by David Kramer matter?
Do forum posts that roll eyes at the aforementioned over-the-top things matter?
Does your criticism of my criticism of someone else’s criticism of somebody else’s criticism matter?
No, but LS takes himself uber seriously. He’s got that Evangelist’s zeal.
Is that a rhetorical question?
Nobody at Mises.Org takes himself that seriously. LS also has done the usual libertarian self-criticism/parody now and then.
Remember, when Barry Deutsch’s 24 Types of Libertarian was posted here, he was among the few who were saying, “It’s funny because it’s true.”
Like 90% of both what libertarians say about libertarians and non-libertarians say about libertarians are both 100% true. And the delightful Mr. Kramer would fit five or six categories from that 24 Types list.
He also had trouble uploading a paper critical of the Federal Reserve to Scribd, and attributed that to a conspiracy by some higher powers who were purposefully messing with the upload. Not even joking. He made a rant about it on the LRC blog but it was deleted (not sure by whom) later that day after he figured out how to upload it. Wish I had saved a screenshot.
Who’s that chick in your avatar?