props for that montage!!
Dude, Student - keep it up fo realz! Am I just crazy or was that a whole lotta sarcasm in that last post of yours? (Hard to tell on the interwebs but I’m pretty sure…)
I think you make people around here think so I think this guy should be welcomed not shunned because he’s not a die-hard an-cap like the rest of us.
“See ya sucker” - seriously? Come on!
I thought it was pretty funny (as I said it)
Seriously though, Student is nothing but a jerk on these forums.
Seriously though, Student is nothing but a jerk on these forums.
I don’t want to derail this thread into a conversation over “whether student is a jerk or not” (though i normally love conversations about me 
). but i would just like to quickly respond.
i don’t try to rub ppl the wrong way. like everyone else, i am here to talk about things i find interesting and generally dick off while i’m at work. and like everyone else, i have a few pet issues i tend to gravitate to. for a lot of people here it is monetary policy. for me, it is environmental econ and generally encouraging everyone to question themselves and others (if you see assertions made on tv without mention of supporting scientific evidence, that is prob a claim you want to take with a grain of salt–even if it is made by john stossel). and i ussually try to express myself on these issues in a enthusiastic but amiable way.
at the same time, i don’t think we’re playing touch football here. i think we’re all grown up enough to bust each other’s balls a little and not take it too seriously. certainly i’m not the only one that does that. libertystudent openly calls people “cowards” if they refuse to get in an argument with him. heck, on the first page of this thread alone libertyandlife posted a pic that compares “what libertarians say” to “what retards think it means”. i mean, how sensative do we want to pretend to be around here?
anyways, im kinda suprised phaedros is calling me a jerk. i thought we always got along well in previous discussions. and he’s pm’ed me at least once and i thought i responded thoughtfully. if i did something to tick him off i didnt mean to.
long story short, it’s all just politics and economics. just because i disagree with a person’s politics/economics, doesnt mean i dislike them as a person. so i just want to let everyone in this thread know i don’t hold any hard feelings against you. that’s all i got to say about it. Peace! 
A great, concise vid to send as an intro for anyone who thinks inflation is “a general rise in prices”…
That’s a pretty slick presentation, I remember stumbling across it once a long time back. I had a “What is Inflation” vid of my own creation posted on YouTube for a while but had to delete that account. But now I don’t want to put it back up without updating it. I would like to explain that there are two causes of inflation. In a monetary system without a central bank or currency debasement (natural money economy), inflation and deflation do occur as the price of money fluctuates. Guido Hulsmann has explained that there is an interaction between the money supply and interest rates in a natural money economy which means that as the demand for money increases, interest rates also tend to rise.
So, the Keynesians and other central bank apologists are not lying when they say that prices can generally rise through natural means. However, the long, steep, exponential rise in prices is easily attributed to an artificial cause… a steady expansion of the supply of money through artificial means (interest-rate fixing). We cannot empirically separate the contribution of natural fluctuations in the demand for money and artificial expansion of the money supply to the decrease in the purchasing power of money but we can easily demonstrate that the vast majority of the decrease in the purchasing power of money is the result of artificial expansion of the money supply.
Clayton -
This video is pretty old, and has probably been linked before, but what got me was the url displayed at the end. I had never followed to see where it led before. Found it pretty cool/useful: Austrianomics.com
I liked this interview. He does a good job of addressing common questions and presents the bailout case in a quick and easy to understand way.
Wow. Hadn’t seen this poll. If this doesn’t boil you I’m not sure what will. I certainly don’t have to mention this but I’m going to anyway…I wonder why they decided to put the two largest slices of the pie almost the exact same color…and put Mitt Romney at the top of the legend.
This is too weird.
from a blog of a self described unemployed construction worker with bar tender skills, a bit of venting but some good insight and links.
Excellent text (Peter Schiff) and reading!:
Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity - Peter Schiff
See also: http://vforvoluntary.com/minimum-wage .
It just sucks when a great video like that is tainted with a crappy narrator. Knowing how to read/speak helps (which is something in itself that most people can’t do), but when you just don’t have the voice for it (ahem, obviously-young males aged 0-25), get someone else to do it. And get a decent microphone while you’re at it.
Jury is always optional as an alternative to judge and is not entirely random. Defense and prosecution interview candidates from a list until they agree on a jury.
Just like “Your money or your life” is optional?
Clayton -
I think he does a good job with the narration (in this video, at least). I also looked through the comments of the video, and I posted it on Reddit. You seem to be the only one who has a problem with it.
So maybe you could specifiy what it is, exactly, that you think could be done better, before you suggest he quit doing youtube videos.
Where did I say he should stop making videos? I think you’ll find I called the video “great” in the very first sentence of the post.
