Economics Questions

Re: Abolishing the Federal Reserve debate on C-Span

krazy kaju — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:22:10 GMT

You can see the debate here. Just click the large, red F that stands for "flashplayer." URL: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=287860-1

Re: Abolishing the Federal Reserve debate on C-Span

DanielMuff — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:11:40 GMT

Is anyone watching the debate right now? I can't believe John Fund invoked Ron Paul.

Re: Abolishing the Federal Reserve debate on C-Span

wilderness — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:09:51 GMT

Daniel:

Is it available on demand? Anyway, Doug Casey is good too.

I wouldn't doubt it can be watched on the internet through C-Span's internet stream. C-Span, C-Span2, C-Span3 can each be watched over the internet.

(Totally off-topic side note other than C-Span coverage on the internet: I don't have TV and I watched an amazing committee about healthcare policies in Canada and UK with very good witnesses from each of countries providing data and real life stories about the healthcare situation in those countries. Apparently their systems are becoming so bad that they are making changes to slowly move back to a free market in this sector. One witness said that it would be ironic for Canada to move back to the free market (which all of this moving back could take decades and still may not be a total move back, but the U.S. isn't a free market with health care either) and the U.S. move towards their terrible, bankrupt system. Supreme Court cases in Canada are being heard suing the government due to such a terrible system that is killing people and causing lots of neglect. I never heard so many statistics and how their government bureaucracy works - it's completely not only neglectful, has a lot of propaganda that distorts the publics vision of their healthcare compared with other countries including the U.S., but also not everybody is covered in Canada or the UK and they profess they have universal healthcare coverage and they don't, etc, etc... so much more the whole budget allocation according to zipcodes, diagnosis' that government makes on patients, kinds of treatment out of the hands of doctors, and the kind of techniques that government decides as well.)

Re: Abolishing the Federal Reserve debate on C-Span

Daniel James Sanchez — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:46:22 GMT

Yes, great find, wilderness. BTW, it's a broadcast of a debate recorded at FreedomFest. Bob Murphy saw it live, and reported the following...

Tom Woods and Gene Epstein absolutely destroyed John Fund and Warren Coats regarding their Friday debate, "Fed Up With the Fed: Should We Abolish?" Tom gave a good opening, and at the end the crowd erupted into applause. Then Coats got up to give the opening speech for the "No" side, and he started out by saying, "Yes, the Federal Reserve has made mistakes. Alan Greenspan held rates too low for too long. After the crisis hit, Ben Bernanke committed the dangerous precendent of buying mortgage-backed securities and hence politicizing the markets..." and he just keeps listing all the way the Fed stinks. And then he ran out of time and had to sit down!! (I'm not kidding.) John Fund opened with a line of Shakespeare and did some damage control, such that I imagine the people in the crowd who always longed to sit at the cool table in high school may have been swayed. But all in all, Tom and Gene just owned their opponents. (Of course, it was a lopsided event; the crowd was packed with Ron Paul fans.)

Re: Abolishing the Federal Reserve debate on C-Span

DanielMuff — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:34:00 GMT

Is it available on demand? Anyway, Doug Casey is good too.

Re: Abolishing the Federal Reserve debate on C-Span

ladyattis — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:07:17 GMT

Good find!

Abolishing the Federal Reserve debate on C-Span

wilderness — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:57:13 GMT

This looks interesting. Tom Woods will be on C-Span's Book TV July 25, 26 debating with three other panelists about Abolishing the Federal Reserve. The link provides times and a more in-depth look at each person in the debate.