The Founding of the Federal Reserve | Murray N. Rothbard

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  • @mpc91
    @mpc91 12 років тому +436

    The trouble is that Chomsky and Rothbard are not fighting the same fight. Rothbard's grasp of history, economics and human rights dwarfs the confused rantings of Chomsky in every conceivable way.

    • @beckywatt5048
      @beckywatt5048 4 роки тому +44

      mpc91 Chomsky tries to hide things to manipulate the argument, need the whole truth.

    • @laaranaroja5404
      @laaranaroja5404 4 роки тому +8

      Lol, not even true. Have you ever read a history book? The history of Capitalism is full of violence, slavery, genocides, colonialism, imperialism, human-rights violations, etc.
      The history taught in schools is a history written by imperialists powers in order to protect their interests. You don't have to be Chomsky to know that, libertarians live in a parallel fictional world. Chomsky is not even a Marxist Leninist, he's an anarchist.

    • @macsnafu
      @macsnafu 4 роки тому +93

      @@laaranaroja5404 Genocides, colonialism, imperialism? Like many, you confuse anti-capitalist government agents with capitalist entrepreneurs. Actions taken by a government or in the name of a government are almost always *anti-capitalist,* not capitalist.
      The history taught in schools is indeed a white-washed set of lies intended to make anti-capitalist governments and politicians and bureaucrats look good, not to make capitalism look better than it is. Why capitalists get the blame for what governments do is the real question here. Why do *you* believe such nonsense?
      Also, Noam Chomsky, a cunning *linguist,* is very good at manipulating words. It's his specialty after all. He has described himself as a "libertarian socialist."

    • @howardpatters3461
      @howardpatters3461 4 роки тому +16

      @@macsnafu The "history of Capitalism" is a history of self-correction. The role of most governments in that "history" is to control the wealth and freedom of individuals, ostensibly to harness the engine of capitalism for "the greater good". La Araña Roja's gripe seems better aimed at institutions "in charge" of capitalism (the usurpers and looters), rather than at the market of mutually beneficial exchange.

    • @macsnafu
      @macsnafu 4 роки тому +13

      @@howardpatters3461 "The role of most governments in that "history" is to control the wealth and freedom of individuals, ostensibly to harness the engine of capitalism for "the greater good"."
      LOL. Because self-interested politicians and bureaucrats know what's "best" for the rest of us!

  • @ellsworthtoohey7339
    @ellsworthtoohey7339 8 місяців тому +4

    Look at the number of years across the comments on this video. Oldest I have seen so far is 15 years ago. This is in itself amazing. We are all talking about Rothbard, or circumstances that Rothbard talks about. We are having a continuum across time, and its always relevant!

    • @mgr2599
      @mgr2599 4 місяці тому

      Yup. I first saw this about 17 years ago.

  • @sneakthieve
    @sneakthieve 2 роки тому +137

    Us born after Rothbard’s death are so lucky to get to hear these lectures. Agree or disagree he’s truly a treasure to western thought.

    • @KC9UDX
      @KC9UDX 2 роки тому +7

      Most of us alive during his heyday didn't get to hear them till the present day either.

    • @sneakthieve
      @sneakthieve 2 роки тому +4

      @@KC9UDX great point. I was probably a bit tipsy when posting that.

    • @robertromero8692
      @robertromero8692 2 роки тому +7

      I had the pleasure of seeing him in person twice and meeting him.

    • @widehotep9257
      @widehotep9257 Рік тому

      Too bad Rothbard lied about how banks work and how money is created. He pushed the phony "Fractional Reserve" model and fake "Money Multiplier Effect", neither of which exist in reality. In fact, banks create 100% of our money supply after the borrower signs the loan contract with no need for prior deposits or reserves. Rothbard never tested the nonsense models he taught.

    • @aoshankle3
      @aoshankle3 Рік тому

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  • @Wondering_Ghoul
    @Wondering_Ghoul 7 років тому +128

    This man was a genius. Just a great great mind. It's a shame people don't live forever. lol

    • @indyford3531
      @indyford3531 4 роки тому +5

      especially the good ones.

    • @goatface6602
      @goatface6602 2 роки тому +1

      His can and hopefully will.

    • @KC9UDX
      @KC9UDX 2 роки тому

      Some will, but not everyone will get to see this happen.

    • @florianjardin3064
      @florianjardin3064 Рік тому +1

      Imagine Morgan, Rothschild and Warburg lived forever 😅 but they kinda do in their family dynasties

  • @Lurker1979
    @Lurker1979 27 днів тому

    I have to come back to listen to this every couple of years. Great talk.

  • @JohnLambrechts
    @JohnLambrechts 16 років тому +50

    Thanks Mises for everything, you enlightened me at a very early age.
    Thanks again, everyone who works there is doing a great service to all of us.

  • @pretorious700
    @pretorious700 14 років тому +21

    I've listened to this about 50 times and it just gets better.

  • @TheOmanJam
    @TheOmanJam 13 років тому +11

    There is a modesty to Murray Rothbard's delivery that is refreshing.

  • @daltanionwaves
    @daltanionwaves Рік тому +9

    Learning about the nature of money, and how fiat currencies transfer wealth from the working economy to the financial and political class made world economics so much easier to understand. And learning about the history of Allodial property rights in the US really opened my eyes to wealth, poverty, indentured slavery, and how power truly operates in the world. And how for good or bad, the founding fathers truly believed in the enlightenment and making a government for the people by the people, literally fighting and dying to break free from the old world monarchies and socialist/feudalist states that sucked the life out of the world's population since humanity first started to farm and collect wealth.

    • @darbyohara
      @darbyohara Рік тому +1

      The founding fathers would be disgusted and take up the rifle if they were alive today

    • @seankennedy4284
      @seankennedy4284 11 місяців тому

      I've heard of, but never looked into, allodial property. Any sources of info you find particularly instructive?

  • @Jsteins27
    @Jsteins27 12 років тому +18

    Big Ron Paul supporter.. just started reading some of Rothbard's work and whoa... Rothbard kicks ass!! Can't wait to read more and more and more.

    • @Roylamx
      @Roylamx 2 роки тому +5

      Jsteins27, I know, right? Took me 9 years longer to get here!

    • @virginicaanderson1569
      @virginicaanderson1569 Рік тому +5

      I am here today

  • @dennisshaw5454
    @dennisshaw5454 Рік тому +7

    This is my first time hearing this man speak and within 5 min I know he is on point.

    • @seankennedy4284
      @seankennedy4284 11 місяців тому

      Yes, the analysis rings true, and delivers immediate clarity. Reminds me of when I happened across Austrian econ 20 years ago, 4 years deep into an (incoherent) undergrad economics education. It was like someone turned the room lights on.

  • @albinothug
    @albinothug Рік тому +8

    The Q&A at the end was more informative than my Econ degree

  • @podzycie3567
    @podzycie3567 Рік тому +18

    There's something incredibly eerie about the story of JP Morgan's central role in the forced cartelization of banking, and then to see the current role JPMC is playing in the SVB and regional bank bailouts. What is the saying, the more things change?

    • @Datagrama
      @Datagrama Рік тому +3

      Exactly! Notice that no journalist focuses on this to tell a more complete story of what is going on with central banks and federal reserve

    • @billwilson5341
      @billwilson5341 Рік тому

      @@Datagrama "Journalists" print what they're told to print by the bankers and others in the cabal. They are just another batch of Useful Idiots. Not all of them but most of them.

  • @Phl3xable
    @Phl3xable 11 років тому +78

    I'm absolutely in awe when I listen to Rothbard speak. He's truly a genius.

    • @SlashinatorZ
      @SlashinatorZ 7 років тому +1

      I find the classist elitist snobbery of hardcore Capitalists to be disgusting. They view the working class as subhuman. Just look at how they react anytime workers demand to be paid more or when CEOs are criticized for earning too much.
      I was a janitor at Walmart & have had many Libertarians & Republicans ridicule & disrespect me for it. I'll criticize trump then they bring up my job history to discredit me

    • @johnp3547
      @johnp3547 7 років тому +8

      Evan Gragg sorry about that buddy we aren't all bad

    • @Cam_1776
      @Cam_1776 3 роки тому +1

      @@SlashinatorZ yeaaaaa, it ain’t like communist governments produce forced labor and treat the working class as SUBHUMAN or anything… oh wait they do!! If you have a problem with a monopolist company such as Walmart then work for a local company that truly represents the free market, I know Walmart isn’t giving you a livable wage and I also know you aren’t asking every customer you come across what their political orientation is so that bs of Republican or libertarian down speak is exactly what it is… BS. MUST SUCK WHEN A COMPLETE STRANGER CALLS YOU OUT FOR A COMPLETE LIE

    • @fatrick9001
      @fatrick9001 2 роки тому +1

      @@SlashinatorZ Sounds like a totally fake story of you imagining things

    • @SlashinatorZ
      @SlashinatorZ 2 роки тому +1

      @@fatrick9001 not imagined at all. They always insult me for my job or lack of to discredit my political views, especially on Facebook

  • @timbitsnomson
    @timbitsnomson 12 років тому +19

    I share in that affectionate sentiment. There's something so warm and jolly about him, despite fighting a lifelong losing cause. If only he could see the growing support for his ideas now!

    • @Jay-zb6kb
      @Jay-zb6kb 2 роки тому +1

      i just got on the train and currently becoming a hoppean as well.

    • @lordgrishnakh1148
      @lordgrishnakh1148 2 роки тому +1

      @@Jay-zb6kb Hoppe's ideas would be the perfect stuff to call the next, new (relative to Rothbard himself anyway), even further enhanced and purified ideology of this sort, *IF* he wasn't somewhat of a collectivist of his own kind. That's why Rothbard is still the most pure, the true pinnacle and heart, of this ideology as it should be. As a "next step" guy, Walter Block is Much more fitting than Hoppe in truth.

  • @greenenergy5481
    @greenenergy5481 7 років тому +57

    Disband the Federal Reserve

    • @fallenangel2123
      @fallenangel2123 3 роки тому

      nationalize it

    • @greenenergy5481
      @greenenergy5481 3 роки тому +2

      @@fallenangel2123 Disband it. They are a cult of criminals and want all of us Human Beings KILLED. We need to be putting them on trial for their Crimes and for High Treason. Prepare for Super inflation.

    • @Charles-hy6gp
      @Charles-hy6gp 3 роки тому

      @@greenenergy5481 A dictatorship is needed to do that, POTUS cant do anything without Congress and Supreme Court support

    • @Cam_1776
      @Cam_1776 3 роки тому

      @@Charles-hy6gp the fed is a private institution. Has nothing to do with the American federal government, that’s why the congress has issues auditing the fed cause the private investors don’t allow it. The constitutionality of currency in the US is within congresses power, that’s undeniable. So why they don’t scare the fed with taking back that power should make you realize how much power those private investors actually have.

    • @millionsmusthavefun92
      @millionsmusthavefun92 2 роки тому +3

      @@fallenangel2123 State-run Central Banking is still Central Banking

  • @TheManiacalSatanist6
    @TheManiacalSatanist6 12 років тому +19

    Murray Rothbard laid it down like the BOSS he is!
    What more can you say? It's Murray Rothbard. 'Nuff said.

  • @usaintltrade
    @usaintltrade 2 роки тому +11

    END THE FEDERAL RESERVE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE

    • @Philip-ze7uh
      @Philip-ze7uh Рік тому

      They are a privately owned corporation ..owner lord rothschild..investors :-committee of 300

  • @jamesedwards.1069
    @jamesedwards.1069 6 років тому +24

    The normal condition of a growing economy with a stable money supply is "deflation" of the sort that Rothbard speaks of. If the supply of goods and services is increasing and the supply of money is constant, the tendency will be a proportionate decrease in prices as the supply of money is spread over more stuff there is to buy.

    • @s.patrickcunningham6851
      @s.patrickcunningham6851 3 роки тому +7

      I want my $0.10 plane tickets and a $90 house, dammit!! The Fed owes me like four pounds of gold at this point.

    • @DerpyRedneck
      @DerpyRedneck 2 роки тому

      @@s.patrickcunningham6851 they owe me my first blowjob and that much weight in fuckin' palladium

    • @Pau11Wa11
      @Pau11Wa11 Рік тому +2

      @@s.patrickcunningham6851 AT LEAST 4 lbs

  • @AdamBrussGoGo
    @AdamBrussGoGo 16 років тому +15

    They didn't teach us this in school. This actually makes sense.

    • @darbyohara
      @darbyohara Рік тому

      Of course they didn’t teach this is school, you think they want you to know how they’re breaking the law and colluding and fucking every future generation?! 😂

  • @Bob-lw2kt
    @Bob-lw2kt Рік тому +4

    Voltaire said:
    "It's Easy To Tell Who It Is That Rules Over You, By Finding Out Who It Is That You Cannot Criticize."
    _/ € ₩ $ !

  • @tartredarrow
    @tartredarrow 12 років тому +6

    If only I could get HALF the people I would send this to to appreciate the first 5 minutes of this speach, we'd get America back again. I'd send it to every American.

  • @Andyhandy92
    @Andyhandy92 Рік тому +1

    Cristine, please keep up the struggle as you are obviously a sane voice in an insane world.

  • @peapod8
    @peapod8 6 років тому +15

    This is a gem. Thank you for posting.

  • @grraadd
    @grraadd 16 років тому +7

    Great material.
    A lot of knowledge to extract - thank you very much!

  • @Remindor
    @Remindor 2 місяці тому

    "People tend to be naive in their own self-interest." That's a profound insight into human nature.

  • @NavaidSyed
    @NavaidSyed 5 років тому +12

    Can't love him enough.

  • @JoseOliveira-kc4tr
    @JoseOliveira-kc4tr 3 роки тому +6

    I can imagine the walls in his study filled with photos of all this people and lines connecting them!😁

  • @MovieRiotHD
    @MovieRiotHD 5 років тому +18

    End the Fed, but don't stop there: also end the ECB!

  • @redacted5035
    @redacted5035 Рік тому +1

    Murray "N" Rothbard, cuz he a reall-ass one ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊

  • @libertarianjury
    @libertarianjury 15 років тому +9

    Read two books if you want a deep understanding of what is coming for America: "The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve" and "The Ominous Parallels" by Leonard Peikoff. Follow that up with "Why Government Doesn't Work" by Harry Browne and "Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine" if you want a recipe for a solution. More to come. Over and out.

    • @DerpyRedneck
      @DerpyRedneck 2 роки тому +1

      I'd advocate add George Gordon's understanding of Common Law to the equation as well.

  • @bmtimv
    @bmtimv 16 років тому +1

    I don't completely agree with Rothbard but I always enjoy his lectures.

  • @noway63244
    @noway63244 12 років тому +8

    I find that if I first read Rothbard on a subject, then I listen/watch a lecture of his on the same topic, then I get much more out of the lecture.

  • @root8272
    @root8272 12 років тому +4

    Just for the record, this was at the University of Houston. You can see that this was held at the Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management on-campus.

  • @boosuff
    @boosuff 16 років тому +1

    thanks for posting...watched the whole thing...

  • @CJinsoo
    @CJinsoo Рік тому +3

    the questioner @1:04:00 was ahead of his time. didn’t foresee 1% federal funds rates and negative real rates, and lower commercial rates. but he’s correct about an expansion of credit not necessarily resulting in an inflated money supply.

    • @sean_wells
      @sean_wells Рік тому +3

      Agreed - lots of viewers probably perceive his questioning as “hostile”, but think he’s just bringing up an additional point that (if anything) is just an adjunct or parallel problem to everything Rothbard is citing. It was almost like a Teaser Trailer to what could have been a Sequel Lecture.

  • @mpc91
    @mpc91 12 років тому +3

    On what topic? Rothbard covered most of them. He was an expert on history to the smallest detail. His four-volume "Conceived in Liberty" is an eye-opening history of the American Revolution. His "Panic of 1819" is the definitive work on the subject. "America's Great Depression" gives the fullest and most accurate account of that period. "Man, Economy and State" is a full account of the economy from all angles. There's a lot to go on.

  • @murrayrothbardavusturyaiktisat

    Incredible

  • @nelsonwest5285
    @nelsonwest5285 5 років тому +7

    This is another excellent information cache.. there's alot of terminology which is hard to understand unless you posses an Economic degree.. however the background of the players and the extent of influence throughout the subsequent hijacking and dismantling of the original currency system is really cool..like how they Morgan and Rockefeller went to school together and the beginning of progressive poisoning of society.. WOW. Lots of good stuff.. thanks

    • @daltanionwaves
      @daltanionwaves Рік тому +2

      Though it's easy to understand without an economic degree if you're not in a rush. Like anything else in life worth learning, you just learn one piece at a time, and by learning enough of the foundational principles, eventually you will connect all the higher level stuff and more abstract ideas on your own. Economics is actually very basic, rudimentary and logical.. but if you watch the news, you'll be mystified by the smoke and mirrors and double speak that is absolutely not confusing on accident. It's simple, the powers that be want to inflate money as much as possible, as it functions as a mechanism of transferring wealth from the working class, to whoever gets the new money first. And on top of it, the Federal government has to pay interest on every single dollar that enters circulation. So it's a scam and a racket rolled into a single machine that enslaves the laborers by slowly stealing more and more of their wealth. The political and financial class doesn't care how much a dollar is worth because they'll just end up with more of them. Plus they invest in commodities and hard assets like land, buildings, gold and things anyway so they are protected on both fronts. It's a perfect system if your goal is to own all of the world's wealt... That's why it was so important for them to bomb all those middle eastern countries that wanted to break free of the Petro Dollar and start their own currencies. Because of the nature of fiat, any rival currency that deflates or even just inflates at a slower rate will generate profit for anyone that trades their USD for that currency. Like Rothbard was saying, these people hate competition because competition drives prices Down and quality Up... It's the same for currencies, if currencies were allowed to compete, the little people will win, because their money will increase in value. But with fiat, the bankers can capture all that extra wealth generated by growing economies and the massive increases in productivity due to new technological efficiencies and innovations. The world produces 100x more per person today than it did 100 years ago, yet our purchasing power has stagnated.... All that extra wealth has been transferred to the wealthy through the mechanism of inflation and their control over who always gets the new money.

  • @DelkorYT
    @DelkorYT 8 років тому +53

    0:53 Hoppe approves

    • @RunnerBul1
      @RunnerBul1 6 років тому

      Why did you make this comment? Does Hoppe hold a similar belief?

    • @djordjebokun882
      @djordjebokun882 6 років тому +21

      @@RunnerBul1 "so to speak" is a phrase that Hoppe frequently uses, so it's become a meme

    • @swedishancap3672
      @swedishancap3672 3 роки тому +5

      @@djordjebokun882 It's become a meme so to speak :)

  • @normanwestern9450
    @normanwestern9450 2 роки тому

    Murray is my favorite author

    • @daltanionwaves
      @daltanionwaves Рік тому

      Good for you man. It's amazing how effectively the international banking cartel subverted the United States in 100 years. The world wars really accelerated their plans due to being able to suspend the constitution during wartime. From losing our right to transact in real, fair, money, to losing our Allodial property rights, to our president being shot in the head. Apparently, freedom isn't free.

    • @daltanionwaves
      @daltanionwaves Рік тому

      The right of revolution is free tho, because that's the one right granted to us directly from nature, without the need for permission from any kind of official intermediary. We are born with that one. Unfortunately, it only becomes useful when there are enough people agitating for freedom at the same time that the whole system kind of resonates at a natural frequency. And until then, it's all just noise... Even more unfortunate is the fact that the resonator that aligns all those disconnected waves is human suffering. As history has shown, the powers that be eventually and always just take too much, and because of system dynamics, all the agitating waves will at some point spontaneously align and form a current. At which point there is no obstruction, and no diversion that can hope to stem the tide. It's only a question of when the tide turns, will we be alive to see it? More and more I think we will, because these things are non-linear, they accelerate towards confrontation at an ever-increasing rate. Until the levy can no longer hold back the currents of the whole godamn ocean... People will not accidentally be killed. Long kept secrets will once again be known. Public perceptions will change. And whoever is left will get to breathe the precious fresh air of freedom.

  • @TeaParty1776
    @TeaParty1776 11 років тому +1

    Beyond the limit of reason, you are correct.

  • @SilentNoMorePubs
    @SilentNoMorePubs 14 років тому +4

    How central banking takes your wealth and leaves you in debt is the subject of the UA-cam video WHY WE ARE IN SO MUCH DEBT. Highly recommended.

  • @Ones_Complement
    @Ones_Complement 2 роки тому +7

    Greatest man the 20th century ever produced.

    • @thermionic1234567
      @thermionic1234567 2 роки тому

      Come on man, Obama (peace be upon Him) was born in the twentieth century!

  • @dennismartin3562
    @dennismartin3562 Рік тому +2

    Basically….. the Bankers of the Federal Reserve are in FULL CONTROL of the money supply… without being on the Gold Standard….. they can flood the economy with money (zero interest lending, we experienced over the past few years) then let inflation set in and jack up the interest rates until the economy shrinks, collapsing housing, industry and GDP…. Then they sweep the winning of the table like a poker game Winner….. tell me thats not corruption!

    • @bellakrinkle9381
      @bellakrinkle9381 Рік тому

      Yes, they did it in 2008 and the table is set, once again.

  • @TeaParty1776
    @TeaParty1776 11 років тому +2

    Learning is relative to reality, an impossibility for multicultural subjectivists trapped inside social approval.

  • @fmueller1
    @fmueller1 12 років тому +1

    "I am sure many, if not all of us here, are familiar with Murray's writings and his pronouncements." - Stephen O. Morrell
    Somehow the term 'pronouncements' brings to my mind the image of Moses coming down from the mountain after God gave him the ten commandments.
    Who has ever heard about an intellectual making 'pronouncements'?
    Rothbard's 'pronouncements' + critical thought = two worlds colliding!

  • @fmueller1
    @fmueller1 11 років тому +2

    How can you know what I think?
    "Thoughts are free, who can guess them?
    They flee by like nocturnal shadows.
    No man can know them, no hunter can shoot them
    with powder and lead: Thoughts are free!
    I think what I want, and what delights me,
    still always reticent, and as it is suitable.
    My wish and desire, no one can deny me
    and so it will always be: Thoughts are free!"
    (Die Gedanken sind frei)

  • @ReveloProject
    @ReveloProject Рік тому +2

    Cartels part goes hard

    • @ReveloProject
      @ReveloProject Рік тому

      Fractionla reserve banking part as well

    • @ReveloProject
      @ReveloProject Рік тому

      Role of the fed "Lender of last resort" "Expanded credit" "Elasticity"

    • @ReveloProject
      @ReveloProject Рік тому

      39 secret meeting

  • @suereed
    @suereed 16 років тому +4

    Mr.Rothbard is having such fun here. What a wonderful film. I could listen all day. Are there any more films or media files of Mr.Rothbard, no disrespect to Dr.Floy Lilley but Rothbard does Rothbard rather well.

  • @mitchtroumbly7056
    @mitchtroumbly7056 4 роки тому +2

    Best. Fucking. Intro. Ever.
    Thank you for not wasting time. Everyone take note.

  • @williamekasala2861
    @williamekasala2861 2 роки тому

    During the questioning period at the end, the fella with his hair slicked back (let’s call him Slick Willy) added some of the best “double talk” I’ve ever heard.

  • @BeeeeeeFreeeeee
    @BeeeeeeFreeeeee 11 років тому +27

    "limited government" is an oxymoron.

    • @kenzeier2943
      @kenzeier2943 4 роки тому +4

      As is “military intelligence,” and “jumbo shrimp.”

    • @Cam_1776
      @Cam_1776 3 роки тому +1

      @@kenzeier2943 “military intelligence, two words combined that can’t make sense” -Megadeth

  • @davidgamache3035
    @davidgamache3035 4 роки тому +2

    A total flopperoo, I'm going to use that. Great speech too.

  • @SquareNoggin
    @SquareNoggin 5 років тому +3

    I wish Murray Rothbard and Milton Friedman could swap places as far as the prominence they have in modern popular free market economics. Friedman was a decent enough public intellectual, but not nearly as insightful, thorough and, well, correct as Rothbard was. Having nothing significant to say against central banking is a huge blow against him, and if young right wingers today had been exposed to Rothbard the way many of them were to Milton Friedman I think we'd have more of a shot at abolishing central banks one day.
    As it is, looks like it's never going to happen, the scam will continue perpetually, the crashes will get worse and worse, until some kind of major paradigm shift, which can probably only come as a result of a collapse the likes of which we've never seen. As it is, the booms and busts are useful and convenient to the political class, the planners, the tyrants, the public sector, the bureaucrats, the cronies - it seems far too easy for the blame for every crash to be placed squarely on the shoulders of a free market that doesn't exist. And it's just a given that central banks must "respond" to downturns at this point. The really sad part is that young right wingers argue these claims from a position that assumes we actually have a free market right now, and central banks and fractional reserve banking don't get mentioned anywhere at all when it comes to platforms that normal voters are exposed to.

  • @cpklapper
    @cpklapper 13 років тому +2

    The root problem in banking is long-term debt. Inflation is a symptom of debt, yes, but it can also be a symptom of many other causes, some good (for example, rising wages for skilled workers, rising prices for scarce items) and some bad (like health insurance and mortgage loans). By the same token, deflation is a symptom of both good and bad causes. This is what the last questioner might have been trying to point out: that the true villain is debt and not inflation.

    • @jamespier7801
      @jamespier7801 Рік тому

      you are confused about what inflation is

    • @cpklapper
      @cpklapper Рік тому

      @@jamespier7801 inflation is the increase in prices due to the increase in the supply of money. You and your fellow democratic mercantilists do not understand what money is - it is a medium of exchange - and therefore fail to realize that debt-money creates DIRECTED inflation rather than the general inflation from which the economy recovers during the Chartalist cycle.

  • @jeffersonianideal
    @jeffersonianideal 7 років тому +3

    Murray was the Lenny Bruce of economics.

  • @TheMobocracy
    @TheMobocracy 12 років тому

    Definition of SOCIALISM
    1
    : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
    2
    a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
    b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

  • @wreagfe
    @wreagfe 16 років тому +1

    People educated in the average mainstream economic doctrines are advised to digest this video in parts of 10 minutes at a time, or else risk a serious headache. :)

  • @asanisimasablasta
    @asanisimasablasta Рік тому +1

    Economics of corruption. Static fossilized power structures, vs organized methods to build them up and break them down as needed.

  • @truevoice08
    @truevoice08 14 років тому +3

    Forever the State's Greatest Enemy!!!

  • @sectionsixty4020
    @sectionsixty4020 Рік тому

    I love that introduction

  • @zsylvana
    @zsylvana 14 років тому +1

    NBER :"Rothbard blames central banking for the existence of the business cycle, which is somewhat problematic, since the business cycle predates central banking. In fact, central banking in its modern form was introduced in an attempt to stabilise the business cycle. The US Federal Reserve was only established in 1913, after Mises had published his analysis. US had free banking from the Jackson Administration to the Civil War and that didn't stop the business cycle "

  • @Jordanehart
    @Jordanehart Рік тому +2

    Based.

  • @kylewatson5133
    @kylewatson5133 3 роки тому

    Loved this guy in Hoosiers.

  • @fmueller1
    @fmueller1 12 років тому

    [oops, posted before completed] ideological sunglasses. His particular tint is so strong that reality is often indiscernible in the description of what he observes. Nobody frees us from having to do our own thinking, but when I read Chomsky I find a solid analysis of the world as we find it. I don't agree with all of his conclusions, but his observations are usually spot on, which is more than can be said about most, including Rothbard!

  • @Embersphayth
    @Embersphayth Рік тому +2

    Another member of the tribe

  • @fmueller1
    @fmueller1 12 років тому

    Many thanks for the compliments. I too regret the shortness of responses here, which often leads to mindless accusations and name-calling instead of a reasoned debate, in which you are evidently interested. That said, being forced to condense a complex thought into a few lines can be a useful exercise. I haven't read the entire text you recommended, but that's no necessary to see that Rothbard sees the entire world through the tint of his idealog

  • @CurtHowland
    @CurtHowland 15 років тому +1

    It happened because manufacturing processes were not as good then as now.
    The fact is that food quality has improved despite entrenched government bureaucracy and inefficiency, not because of it.
    In a free market, the producers couldn't hide behind FDA rules saying, "We followed the law!"

  • @jcastrowhite08
    @jcastrowhite08 12 років тому +2

    In our republic the people were originally represented by their states. Your voice was heard at the national level by your state's reps/senators

  • @ambientsummer
    @ambientsummer 14 років тому +2

    @zsylvana There was no "free banking" in the US after the Jackson administration. It is true the Van Buren admin instituted what was arguably the best monetary system the US ever had. However, we've had several "central banks" prior to the fed. The first was during the revolutionary war that destroyed the Continental, the 2nd was chartered by Madison around 1816 and was dismantled by Jackson, and the third was instituted as the National Currency Act in the 1860s; a precursor to the FED.

  • @DeanApril14
    @DeanApril14 14 років тому +10

    such a brilliant mind its a shame he passed away relatively young at 68

  • @downtownLAking
    @downtownLAking 2 роки тому +1

    The Fed is master of all it controls......Murray N. Rothbard

  • @fmueller1
    @fmueller1 11 років тому +1

    Tech progress - especially in the US - has traditionally been government funded, and I see no sign of that changing. Without government grants and government buying a product that otherwise was unsellable at the time, IBM would have never gotten the PC off the ground. Similarly the entire Internet was originally developed in the public sector using tax payer money. The private sector was slow coming to the party, and the big corporations are the main threat to freedom on the net now.

  • @fmueller1
    @fmueller1 12 років тому +2

    I am glad we finally agree on something!

  • @TeaParty1776
    @TeaParty1776 11 років тому

    Everything is interconnected. Everything causes or implies something definite. Reasoning is contextual and hierarchical, building knowledge upon knowledge. Surgery is based upon anatomy. Building a house is based on knowing how to hammer, saw, and measure. Who says A must say B. There is no safe place to escape from the destructiveness of the evasion of reason. Reality is real and will not obey man's wishes and tears. Survival requires knowledge. Emotions are not knowledge.

  • @SuperBreadhead
    @SuperBreadhead 12 років тому

    woop woop Murray Rothbard in the house

  • @bryanb.386
    @bryanb.386 3 роки тому +1

    "They tried it over and over a hundred times and they all failed." The root word "progress" in "progressive," is contradictory to the vast majority of the outcomes of their schemes in all areas.

  • @williamekasala2861
    @williamekasala2861 2 роки тому +1

    He equates the Government with Federal Reserve; “We the people” have no control over the FR; there in lies the problem.

  • @mpc91
    @mpc91 12 років тому +1

    Walter Block sums it up very, very well. So does Rothbard. In private property rights you have the ownership of yourself, and of your labor - from those premises you can derive all other valid rights.
    Chomsky's socialism is utter economic nonsense, and has all the same problems that other socialists have failed to address. Who would do the work? How would people know how much to produce?

  • @pretorious700
    @pretorious700 13 років тому +3

    Murray always reminded me of Burgess Meredith as the penguin

  • @mlankford6077
    @mlankford6077 3 роки тому +2

    Wow, I didn't know Gene Hackman knew so much about the Fed.

  • @fmueller1
    @fmueller1 12 років тому +1

    1. There is nobody who knows nothing about finance.
    2. No decision is ever just about finance.
    Under the current system plenty of people with degrees from fancy business schools run companies into the ground. Others lacking such formal training, and having been dealt a pretty tough hand to begin with, nevertheless keep their check books balanced, and manage to have a few bucks left at the end of each month.
    Do you think our current economic system is perfect, or is there room for improvement?

  • @whoami5680
    @whoami5680 5 років тому +4

    Murray Christmas!

  • @TheMobocracy
    @TheMobocracy 12 років тому

    People aren't ruled by the "wealthy". They are ruled by the government.
    Education is run by the government so this is about what one can expect.
    "What room for improvement do you see for our current economic system?" You just eliminate government violence from the system.

    • @valnemcek734
      @valnemcek734 Рік тому

      Who owns the government? Think it could be the "wealthy?"

  • @noway63244
    @noway63244 12 років тому +1

    LOL, I totally agree. But you have to admit, the UA-cam commenting system was pretty much designed to let people make baseless assertions. Having a real, intelligent debate with UA-cam comments is pretty much impossible.

  • @TheMobocracy
    @TheMobocracy 12 років тому +1

    Definition of PRONOUNCEMENT
    1
    : a usually formal declaration of opinion
    and your link just sent me to the youtube homepage

  • @cpklapper
    @cpklapper 13 років тому

    @MattQB1990 I am an economist. "Cumulative fiscal deficit" is not a sentence, nor even a catchphrase, but a functional description of the federal debt. A deficit is a negative balance. A fiscal deficit is a deficit which a government has in its finances. The cumulative fiscal deficit is therefore the negative balance a government accumulates over time by postponing with debt what they could clear with fiat money. That is, the federal debt is an accumulation of prior years' deficits.

  • @vcalv9354
    @vcalv9354 3 роки тому

    Reading man economy and state right now and after hearing his voice I think it can only be read in one way now lol.

  • @fmueller1
    @fmueller1 12 років тому

    Q: What is a stakeholder? A: Anybody who kills vampires!
    Kidding aside, grab a business textbook, read up on stakeholders, and you'll have a good idea who might be interested parties. In the end, that too is a democratic decision.
    Moving a profitable factory from the US to China to further increase profits makes sense for the stockholders, but not for US employees. But collectively run business models face significant obstacles in the current environment, eg because banks won't finance them.

  • @rumco
    @rumco 14 років тому

    @zsylvana You got it wrong. Business cycle is not primarily about central banking. It's about expanding credit beyond available capital. Central bank facilitates this. Rothbard has done many studies of recessions prior to existence of FED and explained why they occurred.

  • @greenenergy5481
    @greenenergy5481 7 років тому +1

    No More War

  • @fmueller1
    @fmueller1 12 років тому

    Chomsky objects neither to undesirable work being paid higher, nor to prices determined by a market of informed consumers making rational decisions.
    My point is that property rights can be traded and lost, while while human rights can not. If human rights are supposed to be worth the paper they are written on, they have to be derived from something other than property rights.

    • @ericmuma2373
      @ericmuma2373 7 років тому

      fmueller1 Libertarians generally advocate the theory of natural rights. These rights cannot be lost, they can only be respected or violated. Without respect for private property rights, we are left with only arbitrary means to determine who is the violator and who is the victim when there is a conflict between individuals exercising their natural rights. Private property establishes clear boundaries where one is free to exercise these natural rights without becoming a violator.

  • @NoHomo1776
    @NoHomo1776 12 років тому

    This was held at the University of Houston

  • @fmueller1
    @fmueller1 12 років тому +1

    Collective ownership need not be applied to everything. I'd support everybody owning a toothbrush, but the toothbrush factory could be owned collectively by the people who make it run - workers and management. Similarly decisions about the egg sale could be made by interested parties - especially John - and not just the boss of the corporation that owns John's shack, and is based in Shanghai. But if people are never in control, then we can never have socialism - one thing less to worry about!

  • @edwardpf123
    @edwardpf123 14 років тому

    @zsylvana-Rothbard holds that the central bank is responsible for the severity of the business cycle.
    Fractional banking was always a factor. Rothbard was for 100% banking reserve requirement and 100% Gold standard.

  • @skepticRN
    @skepticRN 3 роки тому

    You have to drink a shot every time he says floperoo.

  • @CarrotCakeMake
    @CarrotCakeMake Рік тому

    Didn't know that about the etymology of "rich".

  • @baloonfart8082
    @baloonfart8082 Рік тому

    And everything worked out fine....

  • @jcastrowhite08
    @jcastrowhite08 12 років тому

    He doesn't miss it but you have to choose your battles in this war. People are waking up to the Lincoln pseudo-dictatorship fact lately, just takes time to raise the consciousness of the people.