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"Newt Gingrich" — A BLR Soundbite
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3 months ago
The Right to Your Opinion - Jamie Whyte Crimes Against Logic
Jamie Whyte's book "Crimes Against Logic" claims to 'expose the bogus arguments of politicians, priests, journalists, and other serial offenders' -...
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3 months ago
tooltime9901 wrong AGAIN
Self-appointed 9/11 'debunker' tooltime9901 has made another sketchy claim about the facts supporting skeptics of the official government-approved ...
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3 months ago
Hayek's Gift
In this new EconStories video short, Keynes and Hayek catch up over a nice meal and a little champagne for some gift-giving holiday cheer.
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3 months ago
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
"Fight of the Century" is the new economics hip-hop music video by John Papola and Russ Roberts at http://EconStories.tv.
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Do Gooders Who Do Harm
Milton Friedman discusses the efficacy of "affecting to trade for the public good," as Adam Smith put it.
All too often people who are well-meanin...
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I think the most twisted and misunderstood way that big business uses big government for their favor is exactly what Friedman is talking about here: "Regulations" which are usually written by the "regulated" companies themselves or at least eventually taken over by those companies and used to kee...
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3 months ago
Milton Friedman - The Robber Baron Myth
Professor Friedman explodes the myth that America's 19th century industrialists exploited the ordinary man. http://www.LibertyPen.com
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I think if there were a single statistic which best measures the comparative standard of living of different places, it would be net migration. Wealth, GDP, Growth, and "happiness levels" mean very little to me compared to: To where do the people want to move?
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3 months ago
Thomas Sowell - The Path To Better Schools
Parental choice vs bureaucratic monopoly. http://www.LibertyPen.com
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3 months ago
An Introduction to Bayes' Rule
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This is a sample video from my tutorial course on the Rules for Reasoning with Probabilities. This video s...
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3 months ago
Brett's boogie.avi
this is what happens when you turn 21 at altitude
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3 months ago
EconTruth#5 Broken Window Fallacy: Focusing on the Means; Forgetting the Goal
In this final follow-up to Bastiat's "The Broken Window", we'll discuss what is perhaps the broadest economic fallacy: being so focused on the mean...
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EconTruth#4 Broken Window Fallacy: The Seen vs The Unseen
We'll explore a second lesson in Bastiat's "The Broken Window" which is that we must not only look at the "Seen" result to a policy or to an action...
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EconTruth#3 Broken Window Fallacy: Destruction Does Not Create Prosperity
We'll explore the obvious lesson of Bastiat's "The Broken Window" which is that destroying property for the sake of creating jobs to rebuild the de...
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EconTruth#2 Broken Window Fallacy: The Story
Entertaining rendition of Bastiat's classic economic parable, "The Broken Window". Detail and characterization are added for impact and to highlig...
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EconTruth#1 Welcome to EconTruth.com
Introduction to EconTruth.com, dedicated to promoting economic truth and exposing economic fallacy.
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Good point! Made me rethink this. I don't think Whyte says because you're personally unable to refute an argument, that argument must be true...which I agree is silly. I think Whyte's point is that "my right to my opinion" should not be confused with refutation. Your right to your ...