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[quote user="Daniel"] The following is part of a conversation I am having with someone else. But I seek help responding to the latest response. Me: What is wrong with the use or utilization or a good or service, especially for profit; in other words, what is wrong with exploitation? Other person: Well I think that comes down to being an ethical

I'm inclined to agree with fsk on this issue. If the people you are debating can't understand that making a good "free" doesn't make it more abundant subsidising something makes it more expensive placing a price ceiling on a good will lead to shortages then I'm pretty sure it's not worth wasting your time on these folk

Kai, I recently heard that Hazlitt was an opponent of the New Deal during the Great Depression, and that Hazlitt, as a decent liberal, couldn't possibly support such a thing. But advocating the abolition of Congress appears to be a very radical move.

I recall this interview where he mentions artificially low interest rates being a cause of recession and pointing out that "you can't legislate against recession". He also says this: [quote]“You know, all the guys watching this program will know people who are in debt. You know, they have got five credit cards. They have overspent

Chris Hitchens is the British-born pro-war atheist. Steve Keen is the anti-marginalist Australian economist. It was Keen who visited the Mises forums and attempted to defend his critique of Say's Law.