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My second rap video with John Papola is now live. Please spread it wide and far.
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There should be a empty chair next to Hayek that says Romer
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That would have been great.
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I was a little shocked when I first saw that it was 10 minutes long however it was a quick 10 minutes.
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I thought the first one was great and would have been hard to top, but you certainly did improve on it with this magnificent product. I really like the philosophic insertion of Mises and Say. The unexpected ending satirically mimics present day life and some boxing matches I have witnessed! If your mission is to convey a easy to understand Economics lesson to a mass audience, you definitely succeeded. Excellent job.
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‘there’s no “it” at all’
That’s it. That’s difficult to get people to realize.
Excellent video.
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I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but Mike Munger is quite the actor.
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Was Munger channeling the visible hand an unintended irony?
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When will the audio be available for download? I would be happy to donate again to EconStories.tv for the privilege of having this song on my iPhone right alongside “Fear the Boom and Bust”
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One of the YouTube commenters posted the following about the “Fight of the Century” rap video: “I feel? like this piece was pretty free-market biased.” I had to support that assertion with this response: I agree, you can’t trust those goons at Cafe Hayek to produce a video that doesn’t advocate their belief in human freedom, and their conviction that the government’s role is to protect individual liberty. That’s why we cannot allow them to not force us to do anything – we have to keep electing leaders who will use the coercive power of government to enrich their cronies while pretending to give us entitlements (that clown de Tocqueville pejoratively termed this as being “bribed with our own money”, but what do French economists know? I wish I knew the French word for moron). Freedom after all isn’t free, it requires shared sacrifice, and I’m more than happy to elect people to decide what the meaning of the word “shared” is. And no more quibbling that freedom is violated by legislative acts, we know that markets are not perfect – it takes powerful elected officials to get perfection and root out all that nasty influence from special interests. All that Constitutional blather about limited government – that’s for utopian dreamers!! If I and my team can just get control, we’ll solve everything and best of all, we’ll use other people’s money (the bad people whom I’m sure we all can agree are not paying their share) to do it! With love, Reversoswabbie
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Zed su kek……
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Interesting, even fascinating, that you two were able to take these beautiful ideas about liberty and individual human rights and deliver them in a presentation that is stark, mostly verbal,? and still emotionally evocative – at least for a geek like me, who, saddled with the appearance of knowledge, still knows better than to expect an elected official to have any idea how to run an economy.
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“The Fight of the Century” is even better the second time through.
1080p, and crank the volume!
I’m not good with faces, though, and need some help with the celebrity sightings. Where is Robert Higgs? Where is Greg Ransom? Is that John Papola’s dad or uncle or something?
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Recommending to friends and family. I requested viewing from them. My 9yr old and 8yr old enjoyed, then asked questions. Teach them early.
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The Munger Choice: the hand of government vs. the invisible hand.
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Superbly done. I can’t praise it enough.
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Lyrics here: http://hayekcenter.org/?p=4804
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Worth every penny I donated. Thanks.
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