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12 years ago @ Ludwig von Mises Insti... - Lew\'s Big Idea - Doug... · 1 reply · +1 points

The writer of those newsletters is reported to be James B. Powell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GWff8ay5v4

12 years ago @ Ludwig von Mises Insti... - Lew\'s Big Idea - Doug... · 0 replies · +2 points

Ron Paul's already done a pretty good job of dealing with the issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3EADdr-5AY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4

but the Media's adamant about discrediting him and his political-economic views. This campaign's gonna' be tough.

Good luck !

12 years ago @ Ludwig von Mises Insti... - Lew\'s Big Idea - Doug... · 3 replies · +1 points

Thank you for your post. I admire the maturity contained in it. I'm also glad I'm not the only one who's felt disillusionment with the issue.

Yes, the quotes are very suggestive of racism but are not outright racist themselves. There were so many things swirling in my head, that the possibility of Rothbard actually writing those comments did cross my mind. Although I think it remote, and that there's more of a chance that Hoppe's responsible for it. But, this is all obviously speculation. I'm a little confused as how to bring this whole affair to some settled conclusion.

Also, I'm shocked to read that Jeff Tucker isn't at the Institute anymore ? Where did you get this information ? What happend ?

I can be reached via email: sjason2678@yahoo.com if you wish to converse more privately.

12 years ago @ Ludwig von Mises Insti... - Some Additional Reflec... · 1 reply · +3 points

A piece of advice, read Hoppe's methodological/epistemological stuff first before reading his other stuff.

12 years ago @ Ludwig von Mises Insti... - Lew\'s Big Idea - Doug... · 8 replies · +4 points

If that's Lew's excuse, it's pretty lame. I wouldn't buy it if I were you. After all "Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito ." It just doesn't add-up.

I hope you're right though, but taken together with some of the bull**** Hoppe's come out with, the bigotry might be institutional. It's shocking when you consider good people such as Doug French, Jeff Tucker, Mark Thornton, Walter Block are also very much part of the institute. I love those guys.

Hoppe's top class when it comes to Epistemology, but, on Sociological issues he talks some utter trash, real hogwash. From my perspective, when considering matters outside Epistemology, he falls into the "too much aggregation" trap that Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard rightly critique Keynes for. I don't know if he's bigoted, maybe he is and maybe he's not; but he certainly is wrong.

12 years ago @ Ludwig von Mises Insti... - Lew\'s Big Idea - Doug... · 0 replies · +6 points

The material the Mises Institute has put out over the years has been great. Whoever's responsible for that has done a tremendous job, of that there can be no doubt.

But, with all the reports coming out of the media these last few days I think it's in everyone's interest to know if Lew wrote (or was in some way responsible for) those racist quotes in Ron Paul's newsletters

I'd be devastated to find out that the Mises Institute - frankly, an organization I've come to love - has such a bigoted man at its head. Devastated !

I haven't felt such an anti-climax in many, many years.

12 years ago @ Ludwig von Mises Insti... - Praxeology and Economi... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yeah, I think the key point (Del Lindley makes) is that the compositing of identical goods introduces a good that provides a new set of services.

Thanks

12 years ago @ Ludwig von Mises Insti... - Praxeology and Economi... · 2 replies · 0 points

I have been concerned lately with what I consider a pathological problem in natural law - that we are the sole owners of our bodies.

The problem arises from the fact that the severely mentally-disabled inadvertently injure themselves.

If we are to entrust the mentally-disabled to be cared-for, then they are not the sole owners of their bodies.

How to we handle this important pathological scenario ?

12 years ago @ Ludwig von Mises Insti... - The Evil 1 Percent - L... · 1 reply · +1 points

You're probably right, the FED doesn't explicitly say that it's private, but everything they do, say, and symbolize makes it seem like a public institution.

They're printing the country's money for goodness sake !!

If they are indeed private, then it's a con, a fraud of even bigger proportions than already imagined.

12 years ago @ Ludwig von Mises Insti... - The Evil 1 Percent - L... · 3 replies · +4 points

Good article. One point that needs to be made more explicit is the fact that anyone who works for a financial institution that's backed by the FED is a government employee too. It is absolutely absurd that anyone can justify bonuses received from bailed-out banks. Most of these guys should be in prison.

Fiat money is at the centre of all the world's current problems, and must stop now. Somehow, we have got to return to hard money.