http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=692
Of course this doesn’t take away from the truth of AE or praxeology, but I am just curious about why Rockefeller would fund Mises. Why does a great work like Human Action have to be bankrolled by eugenicist bloodmoney like the Rockefeller Foundation? This just goes to further my conviction that the boys up top are praxeologists, perhaps even the top notch of the field.
Can someone speak to this?
Pure speculation: He was a Jewish intellectual fleeing from the Nazis. I imagine that there were quite a few American foundations looking to support such men during and following the war.
Rockefeller was long dead by then.
Yes, the Rockefeller Foundation funded Mises’ works, not Rockefeller himself.
I saw that in Omnipotent Government’s opening section, where he said he was grateful to the Rockefeller Foundation for helping fund his work.
von Mises, apart from being intelligent, was also likable and charismatic enough to get the attention of some head honchos of academia, business, and journalism. It’s why Bill Buckley, Manuel Ayau,.etc knew him in some capacity.
I guess charisma and social impression really take you places.
This came up once before, can’t find the thread. However, this should really knock your socks off.
Edited to add:
From here (most of the article is babble, but the following quotes from Rockefeller’s Memoirs are fascinating:
Perhaps this goes a little way to explain my theory that the Rockefellers and their allied American wealth interests are currently tangled in a subtle, high-level war over currency, oil and global regulations with the Rothschilds and their allied British and European wealth interests and that, so far, the Rockefellers are winning (Copenhagen global government attempt shot down by CRU email scandal, BP oil spill had no major environmental impact, economic crisis is hurting the US economy but I theorize that Rockefeller interests are actually sheltering the storm in China, biding their time, ready to swoop back in after the economic storm has run its course). I also theorize that the War in Iraq, as terrible as it is, was actually a calculated move by the American wealth interests to sap the US public of its willingness to engage in a much more expansive, expensive and dangerous conflagration in Iran (and, ultimately involving Israel, Russia, China, the other belligerent Middle Eastern powers and possibly even India), long planned by the British and European wealth interests who did not have a controlling interest in the Bush administration and only in 2008 finally got hold of the US executive. But by 2008, it was way too late, the US public will never get behind a war in Iran. For the first year and a half of the Obama administration, the war drums were beating incessantly in the US media but in the second half of 2010, this has begun to taper off as TPTB are beginning to realize the US public simply will not bear a new war. They have their clown puppet Ahmadinejad running around making all kinds of insane and inflammatory statements that happen to be useful to the war machine but, other than that, the Iran nuke mania has largely been a big, fat dud (do you think the American public is weary of fake WMD witchhunts?)
What I wouldn’t give to be a fly on the wall in one of Rockefeller’s private offices.
Clayton -
That’s very fascinating. Do you believe that the 2008 market crash, or at least its timing, was engineered? If the behind-the-scenes powers do buy into ABCT like you suggest, do they have enough influence with the Fed to actually deliberately create a boom-bust cycle, and control enough assets to dictate the time when to the plug is pulled on the boom? Or instead was it simply well-meaning but stupid Keynesian inflation that created an uncontrollable disaster without any influential conspiracy element?
The crisis was most certainly designed. I made a client of mine over 15k by telling him to invest everything in Chase; they’re going to buy everything. And they most certainly did. Do you know how I had this “advanced knowledge.” I got it from researching conspiracy theories about the great depression.
Yep, when the shit hits the economic fan, buy Goldman Sachs or buy Chase! It will yield a better return than gold.
Clayton -
Doesn’t that only hold for as long as they can get bailed out by the government?
They are the government.
These foundations fund all sorts of intellectuals, that’s how they capture those intellectuals.
It’s no surprise that they supported Mises, although I think they may have been foolish if there was any expectation he would alter his views to suit his patrons. Mises was heroic for his commitment to liberal ideals.
I am still trying to imagine what a complete life David Rockefeller lived. He is the rich and smart version of Forrest Gump.
Consider. This man met in professional capacity many people who were then young aspiring but unproven men, and those very men would become leaders of entire nations years later. And if not leaders, then top journalists, top academics, or top something. It is simply that the exposure of this man from his wealth allowed him to be in so many places, that those he’d brush along on the way would be people already on a quiet rise to power. Thus he met Saddam Hussein before he was Saddam Hussein and…okay, I can’t even remember all the crazy examples.
His own life though started out with him working as a spy in North Africa and his two other spies who were his contacts would also become people in power.
This. While you’d be insane to lock any cash into a 401k, IRA or other carrot-and-stick capital control mechanism, if you’re just buying paper for the ride, why not? They’re going to bankrupt sooner or later but later can be a long time and it certainly won’t be tomorrow.
Clayton -
No doubt David Rockefeller’s mind is a highly non-linear function.
Clayton -
No doubt David Rockefeller’s mind is a highly non-linear function.
Clayton -
EiK: “The crisis was most certainly designed.”
I hope you mean this in a non-Alex Jonesy way. I mean, if you consider the actions of the Fed and the feds “engineering”, then yes, I agree with you.
" I made a client of mine over 15k by telling him to invest everything in Chase; they’re going to buy everything. And they most certainly did. Do you know how I had this “advanced knowledge.” I got it from researching conspiracy theories about the great depression."
How did you know when their prices had hit bottom?
Why is it so hard to believe that it was designed on purpose? Alex Jones isn’t the only person who says this, and I’d suspect you doubt it solely because you heard Alex Jones say it. Don’t put your head in the sand just because you think he’s a sensationalist or whatever. If you are smart enough to understand AE and ABCT, and would presumably know some of the fundamental steps to take to avoid such a disaster, then why is it so hard to imagine that there are evil geniuses out there willing to do the exact opposite?
I agree with demosthenes. We may find Alex Jones distasteful, but let’s not get caught in the genetic fallacy.
I hope you mean this in a non-Alex Jonesy way. I mean, if you consider the actions of the Fed and the feds “engineering”, then yes, I agree with you.
No, I don’t believe the NWO is a group, specifically. Sure, there are the bilidebergers and the CFR, the FED and all that. But I see the NWO as that scene in Money Never Sleeps when all the businessmen, bankers, and govt officials are sitting around that table discussing how they’re going to maintain their control of the world.
Remember, according to that movie, it all started with one guy trying to screw over someone he thot had screwed him over (Shai’s boss, the one who killed himself).
How did you know when their prices had hit bottom?
I didn’t need to. AIG had fallen, someone else was failing I think. Stuff was going down quick, and then I noticed Chase started buying companies. I knew Chase (and Sachs) would be go up tremendously cuz it’s exactly what they did in the Depression.
I know you recommended it to your client, but did you also invest? Or were you more tentative when handling your own money?
I’m just curious.