The first Chinese participant does a fantastic job of challenging George Soros, with what sounds to me, like an argument directly out of Tom Woods NYT bestseller, Meltdown. Now I haven’t read Meltdown, but I have caught all of Woods’ articles and speeches available online, and feel I can confidently make that assessment.
At 2:30, the Chinese participant mentions that markets can correct themselves, and Soros argues they cannot.
Notice how Soros stumbles when he talks about how markets are smarter than regulators, then claims that only regulators can stop perpetual market failure. And the questioner does a wonderful job of pointing out, that only expansion of the monetary base can provide the necessary environment for these large booms, and Soros starts blinking, which sometimes is a sign of discomfort (approx. 4:30)
Continue reading George Soros withers in the face of an Austrian critique
Since July 2008, Lew Rockwell of LewRockwell.com and Mises.org has been producing and providing podcasts (audio segments) through LRC. I’ve listened to every one of them, some many times, and find them all to be fantastic.
$2000 Gold and the Break up of the US: Gerald Celente
The Biggest Bubble in the History of the World: Ron Paul
America’s Slow-Motion Fascist Coup: Naomi Wolf
The Greatest Depression in History: Gerald Celente
Thanks for the Inflationary Depression: Peter Schiff
How the Government Wrecked the Economy: Peter Schiff
The Panic of ’08: Lew Rockwell interviews Ron Paul
The Crash of ’08: Lew Rockwell interviews Jim Rogers
Stop the Bailout!: Lew Rockwell on the Michael Reagan Show
There Is Hope: Ron Paul
My favorite of this lot, is the amazing Naomi Wolf interview. Perhaps I have listened to too much Ron Paul, Peter Schiff and Gerald Celente (who are all excellent btw), but the Noami Wolf interview was a great gateway to the left, and a really special moment where it turned into a conversation between two intelligent people sharing information and ideas.
Sadly, the left-libertarian doorstops (they have to be good for something) haven’t seemed to have done much to help promote it.
Some of my other favorites include (in no particular order)
I hope more libertarians blog about and share these around. They appeal to all sorts of different groups, from anarchists to Reagan republicans, antiwar protestors to wall street observers.
Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War.
But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915.
Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.
Millions dead, trillions in destroyed prosperity and capital. What democracy has done is make the killing more efficient, more destructive and evil.
But then, it should come as no surprise because we know that democracy is the tie that binds socialism and fascism together. The two sides of the coin that is democracy.
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