Thursday, December 2, 2010

JOTD: BMR


That's right. Boog took bhmf's complaint straight to the source. He never got back to me.
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  1. billhicksmostfunnyDecember 2, 2010 at 6:16 PM

    Yeah Boog. Stick it to the man. Defend yourself Krugman! This is the kinda action I am talking about! Lay it on 'em, right where it counts, in the "post a comment" section with all the rest of the crazies............

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  2. HeadDecember 2, 2010 at 6:31 PM

    The Mises website's banner is so professional looking that I honestly thought maybe it was a legitimate enterprise that had the bad judgment to let an amateur post on it. However, it seems like it's pretty crackpot in nature. For example, if you search on Google, you'll find tons of examples of them taking a Krugman quote from 2002 wildly out of context so that it seems to mean the exact opposite of what he was actually saying.

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  3. HeadDecember 2, 2010 at 6:33 PM

    All of which is to say that when you're a controversial writer for the New York Times, you have a lot of people to respond to, so crackpots are usually going to be pretty low on the list.

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  4. billhicksmostfunnyDecember 2, 2010 at 11:45 PM

    Funniest thing Head, first time I seen the Jackal Banner I said to myself, "Shit that's a nice banner maybe this is a legitimate enterprise."

    Q: What is Mises?

    A: The Mises Institute is not a "think tank" in the conventional sense because it serves no political party, offers no revolving door for public officials, nor seeks to embroil itself in the pseudo-sciences of social and economic management. Rather, the Mises Institute backs research and writing in defense of Austrian economics, the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

    I know I know sounds like a bunch a crackpot stuff to me too!

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