[VIDEO ADDED] Ron Paul on "The Libertarian Future" @ The Mises Circle 1/26/2013

[Occam's Banana]

A Mises Circle event ("The Current Crisis: An Austrian Perspective") will be held today (January 26th) in Houston TX.

Ron Paul will be giving the Carl Davis Distinguished Lecture on "The Libertarian Future" at 12:30 PM Central time (1:30 Eastern).

The Mises.tv live video stream for the event can be found here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mises-tv

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[TD]9:15 AM[/TD]
[TD]Lew Rockwell[/TD]
[TD]Welcome/Introduction[/TD]
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[TD]9:30 AM[/TD]
[TD]Peter Klein[/TD]
[TD]The Myth of "Full Employment"[/TD]
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[TD]10:00 AM[/TD]
[TD]Benjamin Powell[/TD]
[TD]U.S. Recession Policy: Nothing New Under the "Rising" Sun[/TD]
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[TD]10:30 AM[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]N/A[/TD]
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[TD]11:00 AM[/TD]
[TD]Joseph T. Salerno[/TD]
[TD]The Fallacy of Fiscal Stimulus[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]11:30 AM[/TD]
[TD]Bob Murphy[/TD]
[TD]Only the Austrians Maintain Sane Recommendations During a Crisis[/TD]
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[TD]NOON[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]N/A[/TD]
[TD](lunch)[/TD]
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[TD]12:30 PM[/TD]
[TD]Ron Paul[/TD]
[TD]The Libertarian Future[/TD]
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[TD]1:30 PM[/TD]
[TD]Tom Woods[/TD]
[TD]What Should Be Done?[/TD]
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[TD]2:00 PM[/TD]
[TD]Lew Rockwell[/TD]
[TD]The Causes of the Economic Crisis[/TD]
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[TD]2:30 PM[/TD]
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[TD]speaker panel with Q&A[/TD]
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[torchbearer]

awesome

 

[Occam's Banana]

Bump for T-minus 15 minutes. Video is up, but no audio yet ...

 

[torchbearer]

nice crowd. looking for familiar faces.
Josh, where are you?

 

[torchbearer]

lots of young people. good.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Audio is working now.

 

[Occam's Banana]

nice crowd. looking for familiar faces.
Josh, where are you?

Lew just said it's the largest attendance they've ever had for one of these.

I bet Ron Paul has something to do with that ...

 

[green73]

Damn it. I missed Lew.

 

[Danan]

Peter Klein completely destroyed "sophisticated" Keynesians who try to argue against Austrian economists by pointing out how government spending can employ "idle resources" to productive work. The way he describes how resources that are "idle" are everything but unproductive is really insightful. I will definetely read the book he suggested and use his arguments to bug my professors.

I'm looking forward to hearing Benjamin Powell too, his work on sweatshops, etc. is amazing.

 

[torchbearer]

I'm learning.

 

[Danan]

I'd like to see more of Ben Powell at the Mises Institute. People like him and Bob Murphy, the new generation of economists Lew and Murray helped to train, are really pushing Austrian Economics into the mainstream.

 

[July]

I've been watching the stream all morning so far...great stuff.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Back from break. Joe Salerno is up now.

 

[mac_hine]

This is excellent.

Great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Salerno kicked ass, as usual. That was some great stuff on the trillion dollar coin idea.

 

[Danan]

I don't really see the point in Joe Salerno's talk. Of course if the job of the Fed were solely to finance excess government spending (that is what can not be paid with tax revenue), then the direct creation of money for the government would be less harmful then to create the money the way its done now and channel it back to the government.

But why is that important? Nobody argues for the Fed in order to have an institution to that finances the government. Advocates for the Fed argue for it because of "economic and price stability" and stuff like that. Of coure that's completely insane given the Federal Reserve's history and theoretical economic knowledge, but all of them would state that what Joe said is irrelvant to their arguments.

 

[sailingaway]

Thank you!!!! And thank you to Mises Institute for letting it be streamed!

 

[torchbearer]

This is excellent.

Great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

quality tv time.

 

[Danan]

Bob is really obsessed with Krugman.

 

[green73]

Meanwhile over at DP there's nothing on this. But they do have a ReasonTV video entitled "Weekend Watching".