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  • A Featured Video that DOSN'T SUCK!

  • Whatever side of the fence you're on (Hayek for me), you have to agree this video is epic

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  • Smartest rap ever created. Period.

  • This video is obviously wrong because my public school taught me that mixed market economies are far superior to free market economies because the government is better at planning our lives than we are. It's a shame my parents had to pay property taxes for an eastern bloc education...

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  • @TessaAni If the were to be believed, the last 80 years has been amazing, and that's pure fiction. We've suffered two great depressions in the last 80 years, while suffering zero prior to that. Not to mention the recessions of the pre 1930 era were in fact short lived and the growth afterward was extremely fast. Accounting just for the debt accumulated, and the devaluation of the currency, America is not only bankrupt, but radically worse off than at any other time in its history.

  • @TheMadCrumpet I don't deny that, what I'm saying is its not the video.. they're just giving us the views of both of the economists. I don't think they're saying either are right, although you know, the argument is a bit more complicated than either of us are making out.. But all the videos doing is educating us.

  • @TessaAni Durning my history class they put up a picture of Capitalism and Socialism. The picture of socialism had a smiling sun, a bunch of happy workers, and a sad fat cat banker. For the Picture of Capitalism there was storm clouds, sad tired workers and a fat, rich banker.

    Tell me that is not trying to send subliminal messages. I could go on and on about all the other BS they taught me. My history teacher only had sublime things to say about FDR. There is clearly a bias.

  • @TheMadCrumpet Are you kidding me? Was this a college or high school class?

  • @TheMadCrumpet You're quite obviously not understanding my point. I'm not talking about who's right/who's wrong/who's biased (although if you wanna get onto that the videos if you watch them properly agree that they're biased towards Keynes (left wing)). I'm merely commenting that the video isn't wrong, its merely an educatory tool.

  • @TessaAni I agree that both men were geniuses and had very worthy points, but the difference lies in how Hayek is demonized by educational institutions. It's quite obvious that our educational system has been overrun by left-leaning teachers that are very willing to push students to the left end of the political spectrum.

  • @mtb416 that may well be true to be fair, although its understandable that teachers would be left-leaning. But I agree, I think Hayek can in many instances get a bad name, and I think its important to learn all sides of the argument otherwise things become a religion.

  • @TessaAni I don't see why it's "understandable that teachers would be left-leaning."

  • @mtb416 I agree with Tessaani. Growing up (I'm 25 so not that long ago), my teachers were always left-leaning big government promoters. I'm not sure why it was that way, but it most certainly was. I never saw a demonization of Hayek or Friedman, they were just totally ignored to start with (seriously, I never heard a single thing about either of them until I studied it on my own) and Keynes was considered the Lord Savior.

  • @mtb416 In the Uk at least most children are sent to schools run by the State. It seems reasonable to assume that such people will tend to be inlvined towards a pro-statist worldview.

  • Window mender caught breaking windows....news at 9

  • ingenious lyrics

  • Absolutely amazing! I would have never believed the field of Economics would have made its way into the main stream when I was in college. The most influential teacher could explain theory to a plumber. And you, my friend, have proven to have the makings of a truly valuable teacher. Beautiful demonstration.

  • Dennis Reynolds is really trying to advance his career.

  • oh i get it now why they are named Ben and Tim haha, Ron Paul 2012 biaaa

  • My Economics class caught my attention today with this video. And I don't even like rap.

  • ooohh i get it Keynes' book is where the Bible would normally be

  • Ron Paul FTW

  • Them And Their Weird Mustaches!! Lmao

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  • "Ben" Bernanke & "Tim" Geithner? Haha!

  • If only economics had been this interesting when I was in school!

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  • there's something very fishy about all of this.....

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  • Sweet!!!

  • The free market will prevail!

  • @HansBooBee It has to.

    That's why ultimately, the Austrian school wins ;)

    Doesn't matter HOW MUCH you try to spend your way to power and above responsibility. Numerous governments have tried throughout history, and they've all failed.

    The US is next in line.

  • Should've put Clement Attlee in the background at 5:35.

    He actually adopted Keynesian economics.

  • Keynes was English.

  • Eh...Nerdy dorks!

  • I am part of the 99%!.... that have this video a thumbs up.

  • Pretty sweet video, its info-tainment, it informs while it entertains.

  • Hayek's great and all, but Mises & Rothbard are cooler :D

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  • you guys have to add friedman

  • Set the Markets and the People Free!!

  • ولله يابة خوش فلم

  • hayek is the better rapper but intellectually keynes is a little more convincing... lol

  • Dank u wel, thanx for some nice Keynes - Hayek theories

  • Awesome

  • This brings me back to when rap used to mean something.

  • @sniper6081 Rap meant something?

  • @MaxamillianArturo Fucks yeah. I'm talking old school though.  I mean, public enemy old school.

  • I choose Hayek

  • @themistermand boo! XD

  • The Keynes quote at the end was the smartest thing he's ever said.

    ...about himself.

  • keynesian economics?  more like kenyan economics, amirite?

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  • Genialne/genious/brilliante :D

  • Should be part of the school curriculum! Brilliant!

  • i just realized that rap is for those who cannot sing.

  • @TheDravidianwolf singing too you is just having a pretty voice?

  • my dad was an economist at Oxford who knew Friedman and Hayek. He said Friedman was a f*****g b*****d and Hayek was a c**t

  • @drainlid40 Haha :p But I still love them :D

  • @drainlid40 - your dad sounds like a really intelligent guy !

  • Hayek is a fkn boss !! Austrian !?!

  • the Keynesian system has worked before, It worked great in magical pony land, and the economy of imagination land seams to be flourishing.

  • Fidel Castro once said the only things that scared him was Economists. And he was well armed....!

  • It should be noted that Keynes went bald before Hayek.

  • what did i just watch....

  • I agree it is very well done. Some people have such amazing creativity.

  • This is GENIUS!!

  • Austrian-side represent!

  • 0:38 i see what you did there

  • Ron Paul to end the FED RON PAUL 2012!!!

  • If Hayek's rap made more sense to you, vote Ron Paul 2012. If Keynes was your man for some reason, vote for anyone else.

  • Keynesian economics is starting to show its frailties. You cannot control economies with success. If it did work there would be no recessions at all. It's comparable to buying $300 worth of lottery tickets and winning $5.

  • Ron Paul all the way! Austrian economics are the way to go!

  • This is good, I just started to rap so you can check out my videos. Watch them if you want, but if not than don't bother.

  • Hayek>>>>>>>>>Keynes

  • when it says Josh Meyers on here does it mean as in Seth Meyer's bro?

  • this makes my life. apart from the fact that neither of them are American..

  • nice made

  • I love living in a world where Hayek is cool, Bob Murphy is even cooler and Ron Paul is about to win SC! Ron Paul 2012!

  • Y = C+I+G+NX

    Y =GDP

    C = Consumption

    I = Investment

    G = Government Spending

    NX= Net Exports

  • @trekhead1

    GDP is a empty concept.

    It really means nothing at all.

  • @fiscalconservative76 govt produced GDP figures are a joke. monetary expansion is higher than real price inflation which is in turn higher than the bogus CPI. the depression is hidden under a cloak of bogus statistics.

  • @hackingpete

    Of course pretty much any statistic by the government is a joke.

    GDP fails because it is not possible to have such a statistic and it also ignores intermediate goods.

    Just like how the government measures unemployment its more like 20-25% unemployed.

    Its all about making things look good.

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  • Keynes strategy builds on a interesting but secret principle. By taking money from the rich and giving jobs to the average joe - even an ineffective government job - you'll sitll get economic growth. This because the working class consumes the working class products. It uses the roads and the busses and the schools the government has. Luxury product production hurts the economy.

    This is what drives the Kenyan theory. In a communist country it wouldn't work. But in a capitalist one it does.

  • @UberVersatile You seem to be confusing production and consumption. They are two different concepts entirely, something which escapes most Keynesians.

  • Motherfucking Polanyi all up in this bitch.

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  • Hayek is the mannnn! Ron Paul 2012!

  • These videos are actually fucking brilliant. Every detail is a metaphor.

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  • I watched this a year ago and didn't unerstand a thing, and now I understand everthing. :)

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  • @otto0Kitam

    Then what do you propose we do? more regulations? or more competition?

  • I watched this in my Economics class the other day.. It completed my life. If every lesson was made into a rap video, I would understand everything so much better.

  • Ron Paul 2012

    -I'm Friedrich Hayek and I approve this message

  • comment on one of my videos i will return the love.

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  • If anyone out there thinks there's any question, just look at graphs of govts, states, all kinds of different ones to see the strong correlations they talk about in scientific papers.

  • People, this isn't the place to argue High Economics. Is the comment thread of a video that is enjoyable to watch in of itself. Personally, I'm pro-Keynes, but I enjoy Hayek's verses as well, because he argues his point well and the song is just plain cool.

    Go make a Keynes v. Hayek Forum to discuss this.

  • In a mathematically perfected economy, we would actually "pay" a house for a house... no being exploited by banking

    Apparently today, some people believe its economical for us to pay the bank 3 houses for publishing the evidence that we bought 1 house from the true creditor, whom they denied interest ?

  • No one wants environmental/public food-drug safety deregulation. No one wants to work for 3$ an hour, and no one wants to pay tolls for privatized roads. We don't want your "free" market.

  • @maozebong100 So in other words, the only way you'll move out of your parents' basement is if you've got the government to take care of you?

  • @Jbanks75 In other words, your fringe archaic view of society is poisoning the mainstream.

  • @maozebong100 you would be free not to work for $3 bucks an hour and you wouldnt have to pay for something you use unless you use it! $3 was $3 until the gold standard was abandoned systematically and the scam began! You are doomed and i am sorry I cannot bail you out on that but you might be stimulated by my package as I quantitatively ease 1 into your deep debt hole to try to bring you back to life after I pumped you dry! Oh you want some QE2? some QE3? can you get enough? lol

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  • @otto0Kitam what do u mean theg didnt understand "true economics"? and dosent hayek understand immutable wages?

  • @bigpapa1786 Both advocated banks/banking (& interest)... screw money changers

    Theres no free market if you are unable to issue your own promissory obligation free of all manipulations & exploitations... So, no banks in a true free market coz banks steal circulation & cause circulatory deflation & price inflation

    An immutable (mathematically perfected) currency is only possible in a mathematically perfected economy

  • @ott0Kitam Ron Paul not only favors the Austrian model but would also eliminate the Federal Reserve, thus restoring control of currency to the people instead of private banking interests.

  • @thoth81 Im sorry to inform you that he doesnt want to restore currency to the people unless its thru a subverted from of money from a banking system

    He never once has, nor will he, mention promissory obligations/notes, nor does he mention the theft of principal which banks have always stole from us... He instead talks about gold, always trying to mislead people into believing that a material would somehow have insulated money from interest

  • @ott0Kitam What, exactly, do promissory notes have to do with currency? How does a legal document specifying that person A owes person B $X have anything to do with currency?

    Gold is a far better currency than paper bills. Always has been, always will be. That is his point. If you dive further into the Austrian model - where it cannot be explained in a few minutes - you would find that many of them support a 100% reserve system, which prevents banks from stealing principal for their loans.

  • @ott0Kitam How does wresting control of issuance of currency from the Federal Reserve and restoring it to the Dept. of the Treasury not mean what I stated?

    Read what mtanousable said regarding the eradication of fractional reserve banking.

    Also, you mischaracterize Paul's position. He talks about gold (and silver, just sound money, period - look at Australia with a basket of commodities backing their currency) as insulating money from runaway inflation.

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  • HAYEK!!!! FREEDOM BITCHESS

  • @1blackdeath51501 Ron Paul is the other way, drone.

  • @maozebong100 Hayek= free market Ron Paul= free market. dumbass

  • @1blackdeath51501 There can/will never be a "free market" if banks continue obfuscating our promissory obligations...

    & as austrians, both Hayek and Paul advocate banks/banking & interest...

    Sorry, no free market

  • Both great economists, but Proudhon beats them both!

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  • @ShishirYerramilli but You are a bourgeois, Marx win!!!!

  • @sergioPampli92

    How does Marx win just because the other poster is a bourgeois? How does that logic even make sense?

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  • I used to be an economist, until that day when I took an arrow to the knee.

  • wow. dat waz amazeing. 

  • They actually made a good rap about the boom & bust cycle. Genius.

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  • 0:15 Wrong. CHUCK NORRIS is the agenda.

  • Rap starts at 1:05

  • People have this misconception that free market capitalism is to blame for our recession.

    Unfortunately for them, they are wrong. The reason why we are in a recession is because of too much government intervention(i.e., subsidizing corporations like Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac, granting artificial monopolies to said corporations, etc).

    Sadly, most do not have the courage to accept this fact, thus, we will continue on the road to serfdom.

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  • @the5thCount So much ignorance.

    Mae and Mac had nothing to do with the housing bubble, we trended proportional with any other country facing the same bubble. And artificial corporations? If you mean bailouts to banks, sure. They shouldn't have been that big to begin with. You shouldn't blame the government but the greedy banksters. Sounds like you're drinking Libertopia kool-aid

  • @maozebong100 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were specifically designed (with bi-partisan support btw) to lower interest rates on mortgages to encourage home ownership. So of course they had a role in the bubble. That along with slack monetary policy resulted in artificially high demand for housing.

    Banks are too big to fail thanks to heavy federal regulations that punish smaller banks because they can't absorb the fixed costs as well as big banks. This is true not only in the U.S, but worldwide.

  • @maozebong100

    I was going to respond to your inane response to my argument, but I notice that dick391 already did it for me.

    Furthermore, the "greedy banksters" would not have the ability to loan outside of their means without the government guaranteeing them bailouts for such economic errors. If we had an Austrian free market economy, corporations would not be giving such loans as such loans are not competitive in an actual market.

    So go and live under your rock you silly marxist.

  • @the5thCount Schiff is on. He wants you to buy his gold. Libertopia is sure to work!

  • @maozebong100

    ...

    So you have no argument?

    ..........

    Pathetic...

    Furthermore, I am not a libertarian. However, I am an Austrian Capitalist.

  • Lets look at some succesfull countries under right winged capitalist economy. Hmm, oh, none. Yeah ok, Japan (which have had massive protest, and also have taxes and is one of the most regulated countries in the world) and singapore and Hong Kong (which both have had recent demonstrations and protests to start regulating business to provide people with a fair income and labor rights.

    Apart from those, there are none. On the other side, you have almost every single european nation.

  • @gulbirk

    What exactly are you getting at? right wing capitalism? you mean trickle down econ?

  • @maozebong100 Free market capitalism. Un-regulated markets and little state intervention in the economy.

    That is right winged capitalism.

  • @gulbirk You don't have to say ''right winged'' or ''left winged''. It sounds weird in English. Just plain old right wing or left wing will do.

  • @gulbirk Ah, yes. It's failed.

  • @gulbirk So if I protest in a socialist country that's a mark against it then?

  • @gulbirk Because Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain currently have very successful economies. The US used to have a free market.

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  • Oh, groannnnnnnnn. As a black guy, raised in the South Bronx during hip hop's nascent period (underway by 1973, you should know), and as an "Austrian," economically speaking (i.e., Menger, Mises, Rothbard), all I can say to this is: oh, groannnnnnnnnn. I'd submit to Keynesian macroeconomic policies rather than ever have to hear this again. Make it stop! OH, GOD, PLEEEEEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!!

  • @dantean lol you know theres another one

  • @pintinify THERE IS NO GOD!!!

  • do you guys really prefer the keynesian model?

  • @waltermatthewberg Corrupt politicians, people who want the government to accrue debt, and people who have lost contact with reality prefer the Keynesian model.

  • KEYNES!

  • @GenerationWhyMe You misspelled HAYEK

  • @GenerationWhyMe yes, Keynes just got his ass kicked by Hayek.

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  • keynes killed it BOIII

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