I have setup an account at twitter and added some folks I know have twitter accounts. You’re welcome to follow me, and if you have anything interesting to say, I may follow you back. I’m not sure how much I will use twitter, but it will either be a lot or very little. Social media is a regular commitment and I have online commitment issues.
I have to confess, I don’t use a RSS reader. I actually visit sites by hand. It’s impossible to keep up with everything online. So I have a circuit of sites I visit hourly, and sites I visit daily and weekly. If someone can suggest a good online aggregator, I might consider using a feed reader. With my fingers in so many pies, I either need to limit my online exposure (my current approach) or leverage technology to get much more organized and efficient.
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
I’m going to go into the fir trees
There where I last saw her
But the evening is throwing a cloth upon the land
and upon the ways behind the edge of the forest
And the forest it is so black and empty
Woe is me, oh woe
And the birds sing no more
Without you I cannot be
Without you
With you I am alone too
Without you
Without you I count the hours without you
With you the seconds stand still
They aren’t worth it
On the branches in the ditches
it’s now silent and without life
And breathing becomes oh so hard for me
Woe is me, oh woe
And the birds sing no more
Without you I cannot be
Without you
With you I am alone too
Without you
Without you I count the hours without you
With you the seconds stand still
They aren’t worth it without you
This post was originally made at Praxeology.net, as part of a “To Paul or not to Paul” series about Ron Paul. I think it’s interesting that 18 months ago, Rod Long defined his position as such (emphasis mine),
I don’t support Ron Paul’s candidacy, then, because my own talents, proclivities, and commitments lie with the Agorist and left-libertarian projects, and I value the promotion of those projects over the short-term benefits that Paul’s candidacy might gain at the expense of those projects. But I can’t see that this preference is compulsory for everybody. Even if every libertarian ought to be an Agorist and a cultural lefty (and so they ought! – there are limits to my Aristotelean pluralism), it seems to me that it does not follow that every libertarian ought to make the trade-off between those long-run projects and the possible short-run gains from Paul’s candidacy the same way I do.
I’m all for people changing their mind or revising their assessments, but in light of Rod Long declaring that he will run for the LP Chair in Alabama, I can’t help wondering if he no longer values agorist and left-libertarian projects over politics.
A shift in time preference may be afoot. Perhaps the left-libertarian capital stock has been depleted, and long term projects have to be abandoned by the master builder.
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