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2 years

Witty, don'tcha think?

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Those who reverently use the word "democracy" should use the far more accurate term "majoritarianism." Advocates of "democracy" are basically arguing for rule by the majority--51% over the rights of the other 49%. Democracy then becomes a system to be avoided whenever possible.

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My favorite quote from George Orwell, born 117 years ago today: "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them; no ordinary man could be such a fool."

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Bernie, please lead by example and start by giving back that pile of $ you made from those books to the average workers who shipped & sold those books at Amazon & Barnes & Noble.

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What would be truly heroic is if Disney used its profits from Avengers to pay all of its workers a middle class wage, instead of paying its CEO Bob Iger $65.6 million – over 1,400 times as much as the average worker at Disney makes.

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@RBReich 1)Thomas Sowell: "Despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws & 'war on poverty' of the 1960s, the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87% in 1940 to 47% by 1960--before any of those programs began." 1/2

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@profwolff Profit does indeed drive capitalists to raise prices; it also drives them to cut prices--key to the success of capitalist profiteers like discounters Sam Walton & Jeff Bezos. The 10-year annualized increase in consumer goods prices through August 2021 has been zero (chart).

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Ludwig von Mises, b. 139 yrs ago today (in the palindromic year 1881), fled Hitler to come to the US & set up his seminar at NYU, which instructed Murry Rothbard, whose writings instructed me in free-market Austrian economics. So Happy Birthday to my intellectual grandfather!

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If women are paid 22% less than men for the same work, then simple math shows that an employer can afford to hire 13 women for practically the same cost of hiring 10 men. W/that huge competitive advantage, even the worst male chauvinists might be reluctant to hire any men at all!

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Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average. How can we solve pay equity? We need policies that lift wages for most workers while also reducing gender and racial/ethnic pay gaps.

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Probably my favorite quote from Thomas Sowell, b. 94 yrs ago today: “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

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Loaded into an ambulance this past Friday after surgery on a broken ankle bone (& about to turn 80 this November), I accept the tribute of a grateful nation by declaring that I won't accept the Democratic nomination for Prexy (but will still operate my Soho Forum)!

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H.L Mencken, b. 140 yrs ago today, once memorably wrote: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

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Looks Like Heartening News from the Libertarian Party Convention: @angela4LNCChair negotiated the release of Ross Ulbricht w/President Trump’s team. Read that again. Angela got Trump to agree to free Ross, should Trump get re-elected.

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We knew by March 2020 that vulnerability to Covid rises steeply w/age & w/co-morbidities. So if scarce energy & resources had been focused on protecting the vulnerable a la the Great B Dec of @DrJBhattacharya @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta , 1000s of deaths could've been avoided.

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1)Thomas Sowell, b. 91 yrs ago today, is arguably our greatest living economist. Of his approximately 35 books, probably the best one to read at this moment in our history is THE VISION OF THE ANOINTED: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. Also...

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@RBReich To decode the phrase, "universal health care": It means medical care owned & operated by the gov't. So in this context, "universal nutrition care" would mean gov't fully operates food-production/distribution. History shows that brings famine; hence the very opposite of pro-life.

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1)NYPD reports 462 murders in 2020, 141 more than in 2019. NYC Health reports 123 "Confirmed deaths" from Covid in 2020 among people w/"No underlying illness." So as a NY-er w/no underlying illness, seems I faced a greater risk of getting murdered in 2020 than dying of Covid.

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1) Scoring this debate, I have to say that on every substantive question that came up, @ComicDaveSmith had the more persuasive argument by far. What became apparent must already be plain to anyone who (like me) listens regularly to Dave's show...:

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@SamHarrisOrg You should invite Scott Horton of @scotthortonshow . Email me at gene @thesohoforum .org & Ill send you his email address.

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@RBReich 2)"Over the next 20 years, the poverty rate among blacks fell another 18 % points, compared to the 40-point drop in the previous 20 years--the continuation of a previous economic trend, at a slower rate of progress, not the economic grand deliverance proclaimed by liberals." 2/2

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@RBReich Except pre-tax profits of nonfinancial corporations are nowhere near a 70-year high. Query to RBR's followers: Why not ask him to provide the data when he makes such pronouncements?

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@benshapiro As Director of the monthly debate series, the Soho Forum (), I'd like to invite you to debate Scott Horton on a debate resolution re US foreign policy. Please email me at gene.epstein @gmail .com for details or call or txt at 646 872 0314,.

The Soho Forum

The Soho Forum is a monthly debate series held in Soho/Noho, Manhattan. It features topics of special interest to libertarians, and the series aims to enhance social and professional ties within the...

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To @benshapiro : You were eager to debate Ocasio-Cortez. So why not bring your sharp debating skills to the Soho Forum, which has offered you the opportunity to put @scotthortonshow in his place? (See four previous tweets to you; please write me at gene @thesohoforum .org)

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@RBReich This chart tracks the rolling 12-month % change in egg prices in the Consumer Price Index, Jan 2000-Dec 2022. If we credit RBR's warped view of price inflation, then egg producers' "greed" is quite cyclical. As recently as April 2021, they accepted an 8.9% price decline!

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I'm coming a little late to the practice, but I've started to invest fixed-dollar sums once a month in gold & in Bitcoin--the old fashioned strategy of "dollar-cost-averaging"--as a hedge against economic turbulence over the long-term.

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This debate on US foreign policy between William Kristol & Scott Horton is a definite for Monday May 11. (I know because I arranged it all between these two.) Months away, but tickets are selling fast. Buy yours here.

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1)66-year-old epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski emails me: "When I grew up in Germany, I understood that 'never again' should people die because others were 'just following rules.' Now I live in the US & I'm facing the same dilemma Germans faced during the Third Reich."

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@ninaturner Nina, it was slavery, not capitalism, that saw people as capital. Slavery had 10,000 years of history BEFORE the advent of capitalism. And by the 1800s, pro-capitalist economists called for slavery's abolition, which inspired racist Carlyle to dub economics "the dismal science."

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On Monday, May 20, at 6:30 ET, @alan_dershowitz will take the Soho Forum debate stage to defend the resolution: "The United States should strike Iran's nuclear facilities." @ggreenwald will oppose the resolution. Join us!

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1)For someone like me, who still reveres the Chomsky of the distant past (I have a dozen personal letters from him), it's painful to note the lunatic he's become. He'll tell you that Cuba has a great medical care system (see a recent Reason video that exposes that myth). 1/2

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@ComicDaveSmith I'm told Dave is willing to take the negative, w/Justin the affirmative, on resolution, "The overriding purpose of the Libertarian Party should be to win elections." I wrote Justin to get this booked at the , but no response. @justinamash can we book this?

The Soho Forum

The Soho Forum is a monthly debate series held in Soho/Noho, Manhattan. It features topics of special interest to libertarians, and the series aims to enhance social and professional ties within the...

www.thesohoforum.org

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There are times when my techno-ineptness brings good fortune. Finally deciding to buy $1000-worth of Bitcoin every month, starting early Aug. of this year, I hit the key thrice & bought $3000-worth instead, at a price of about $11,900. W/Bitcoin topping $40K, a happy accident!

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To show there is no evidence the lockdowns saved any lives in one Tweet. Take the range across states & nations, to where lockdowns were almost non-existent (Florida, Sweden) to places where they were tight (CA, UK). Yet death rates alone would not tell us which place from which.

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For Memorial Day: Author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1935) celebrated war in his writings, and supported the Great War. But when his son died in that war, he penned this memorable couplet that applies to recent wars: "If any question why we died, Tell them: Because our fathers lied."

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@BarackObama The former president should also address NY Times reporter James Risen's 2015 statement: "I plan to spend the rest of my life fighting to undo damage done to press freedom in the United States by Barack Obama."

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Defending the resolution: Harvard Medical School Prof. @MartinKulldorff , a signer of the Great Barrington Declaration. Opposing: UC Irvine Epidemiologist @AndrewNoymer . I'll be moderating. Hope you can join me to ask questions and do Oxford-style voting.

A Soho Forum Debate

Martin Kulldorff vs. Andrew Noymer

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My wife Hisako, walking in a small-town in upstate New York over the past couple of days, got shouted at on three different occasions: "Go back to China!" Hisako is a native of Tokyo. Anybody's mistake!

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@lexfridman Lex, listen to @ComicDaveSmith 's 1/16/23 Part of the Problem episode, "Sam Harris Embarrassed Himself Again." Dave quotes extensively from Sam's ludicrously self-serving counterfactuals. In your interview w/Sam, play back the same quotes & ask him to respond.

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Stunning findings, almost hard to believe: "Deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza & pneumonia may instead be recategorized as due to COVID-19. The number of deaths by COVID-19 isn't alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the US."

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@RBReich St Louis Federal Reserve documents an off-the-charts purchase by Federal Reserve Banks of $3.5 trillion in US Treasury bonds from fourth quarter 2019 thru fourth quarter 2021. The purchases were made w/money created by the Fed. How can RBR not grasp this was key to the inflation?

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@RBReich The polio vaccine wasn't required for getting into a restaurant. And why force a vaccine on folks who've had COVID, since they also have immunity? And why not the option of showing test results that you don't have it? Since the vaccinated COULD have it, isn't that even better?

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@ComicDaveSmith @LPMisesCaucus Reading Mises' HUMAN ACTION for the first time decades ago, I vividly recall the bulb lighting up my brain when I read the passage explaining that, if workers are paid less than the value of what they produce, competitors will find it profitable to bid these workers away.

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"I was talking to Jesus & I said, 'Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me.' Jesus looked at me & said, 'You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.'" -Gilbert Gottfried, whose death should be mourned as a great loss for the cause of tasteless & offensive jokes.

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. @yaronbrook believes that true anarchy is "evil." He'll defend the resolution, "Anarcho-capitalism would definitely be a complete disaster for humanity." Opposing him: @bryan_caplan . Moderator: me. You won't want to miss this clash of views.

Debate: Is Anarchism Evil?

Monday, September 18, 2023

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JM Keynes, b. 140 yrs ago today, wrote a friend: "I'm heading for Egypt. I just learned that 'bed & boy' has been prepared." Had he been alive today, his sexually abusive behavior would've gotten him banned from social media & maybe even THE GENERAL THEORY would've been banned!

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Says epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski:The rise in COVID deaths in parts of the US is likely due to new strains w/ resistance mutations, which are facilitated by lockdowns flattening the curve & in that way give viruses a chance to evade immunity. So lockdowns are causing huge harm.

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A 10 pm curfew for gyms, bars & restaurants based on Gov Cuomorbidity's info that the virus naps in the early evening but then gets especially rambunctious after 10 pm! Contra to the more sensible view that LONGER hours would tend thin average attendance.

New York Sets Curfew for Bars, Restaurants, Gyms as Covid-19 Cases Rise

New York will set a 10 p.m. curfew on gyms, bars and restaurants serving liquor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday, as Covid-19 cases continued to rise around the state.

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Sunday my wife Hisako had a "Still Alive At 75" birthday party for me, and thanks to the friends who participated in the roast-&-toast part of the affair. Born on. Nov. 19th 1944, I find today is the actual day. I gain inspiration from Ron Paul, whom we STILL can't ignore at 84!

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In 1982, the UN predicted planetary “devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust” by the year 2000. Not too surprisingly, the activists’ models even get the past wrong, but when has that ever stopped the righteous?- @BjornLomborg

The comic cries of climate apocalypse — 50 years of spurious...

Almost every climate summit has been branded the last chance. Setting artificial deadlines to get attention is one of the most common environmental tactics. We have actually been told for the past...

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Still Doing Fine at 79? Well, mostly. Born 79 yrs ago today, I have so much to be thankful for in loving family & friends; my frequent chances to air my views on podcasts; & my active involvement w/my . In fact, the adrenalin that flows from my activities

The Soho Forum

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www.thesohoforum.org

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To Ben Shapiro:, For your Soho Forum debate with Horton (see my two previous tweets), can you take the affirmative on the resolution, “American military action in the Middle East is needed to prevent terrorism on US soil and promote American interests & security for our allies”?

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"It's not like America should bow down to a bully who says I have an H-bomb & I can do what I want. But we shouldn't provoke an unnecessary conflict like this & that's the true history of what's happened." @scotthortonshow 's wise words to @ComicDaveSmith

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4 years

Are the demonstrators seeking more progressive governance? Minneapolis had already elected the farthest left of progressives to every available office, with promises to bring about the end of racism. And yet this incident occurred on their watch.

Surely Minneapolis, Of All Places, Must Have Cured Racism By Now — Manhattan Contrarian

Progressives and Democrats are the people who never tire of accusing their political adversaries of racism, or maybe even of “white supremacism.” Elect us, the message is, and we will do away with...

www.manhattancontrarian.com

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For those new to the brilliance of polymath Murray Rothbard, b. 95 yrs ago today, perhaps begin w/the massive collection of his essays, ECONOMIC CONTROVERSIES, which includes an Intro that begins, "It was nearly 40 years ago that Murray Rothbard changed my life," written by me.

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@RBReich I'm still naively surprised that RBR can have so many followers, given his habit of making sweeping declarations w/o a shred of effort to provide evidence. Much easier to push Big Lies, or as I'd put it, RBR pulling opinions from his butt.

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I self-importantly speculate that @AndrewYang might have fared better had he kept his commitment to defend his views at the Soho Forum this past September. He'd agreed to appear, then cravenly & dishonorably withdrew, after we'd sold tickets to the event.

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4 years

In 35 minutes, using displays that are carefully explained at every point, Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor brings our understanding of COVID to a new level, busting many myths in the process. A must-watch for anyone interested in this topic, which is most of us!

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The only interesting attempt to glean something intellectually usable from Marx is Hoppe's provacative essay, "Marxist & Austrian Class Analysis." Otherwise, Marx's insights are a vast wasteland of crackpot notions that critics have shredded beyond recognition many times over.

Jacobin

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Karl Marx was born on this day in 1818. His work helps us not only understand capitalism, but fight for a world free of exploitation and domination. It remains relevant today. 🧵

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I've been in touch with Knut Wittkowski & have been trying to get a credentialed medical expert to do an on-line debate with him at . He's game, but many turndowns so far. But am still trying.

YouTube censors epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski for opposing lockdown

Big Tech companies are aggressively tamping down on COVID-19 “misinformation” — opinions and ideas contrary to official pronouncements. Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, former head of...

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Our long-awaited (and delayed) debate on foreign policy w/ @BillKristol vs @scotthortonshow . Click on BUY TICKETS & you'll find that discount tx are available--plus the chance to participate in the Oxford-style voting--to those who want to watch a "simulcast" on livestream.

The Soho Forum

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Debate: Furthering the Cause of Freedom? - Wednesday, Oct. 4 -

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Born three-score & eighteen yrs ago today, am I still doing great at 78? Not so great (maladies that slow me down), but thankful for so much, including the chance to have a purpose in life that makes me look forward to each day.

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A risible experience to catch @ComicDaveSmith do a dirty-word- laden standup Fri eve in an offsite club in Rapid City, then seeing him manage a profanity free standup Sat eve at the FreedomFest banquet.

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Born 93 years ago today: the late, great Murray Rothbard. A collection of his finest essays, ECONOMIC CONTROVERSIES includes an Introduction that begins, “It was nearly 40 years ago that Murray Rothbard changed my life.” That Intro was written by me.

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@ComicDaveSmith In 1940, 5% of the population had a 4-year college degree. Today it's 35%, many $trillions later. Let's do what we can to turn back that clock to 80 yrs ago!

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2)Chomsky will also tell you that Trump was literally worse than Hitler ever was because Trump was unwilling to do anything about climate change. There's a lot more, but I hope that's enough to convince you to look elsewhere for "critical thinking." 2/2

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2)...His thinking is filled with nuance, as it should be. I say all this as someone who likes Dave personally, but who has never hesitated to criticize him, especially when I've appeared on his show.

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As of today I've done 74 revolutions around the sun, having been born Nov. 19th 1944. Since my father pegged out at 88, and my mother at 92, and since I get an extra decade for good behavior, I expect to touch 100--and to make the most out of the next 26 years!

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One US president objected to federal insurance of bank deposits, presciently predicting that it "would lead to laxity in bank management & carelessness on the part of both banker & depositor." --Franklin D Roosevelt in Oct 1932.

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I hope this legal challenge to NYC Mayor de Blasio's vax mandate succeeds. As Director of , w/debates happening in NYC venues, I've felt forced to accept this odious requirement, while being fairly criticized for my complicity.

NYC Theaters Sue Bill de Blasio, Claiming Vaccine Mandate Obstructs Free Speech

The lawsuit argues the mandate leads to discrimination based on content of speech and type of speaker.

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. @comicdavesmith successfully defended: The Libertarian Party should never again put up national candidates whose views are similar to those of Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, picking up 20% of the vote vs. @nsarwark 's 16.8%. But with that said, @nsarwark 's 16.8% gain was impressive.

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Could somebody let us know how the Soho Forum went last night? @ComicDaveSmith @GeneSohoForum @PeterRQuinones

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Good job, @ComicDaveSmith & @RobbieTheFire in refuting @TuckerCarlson w/ @ggreenwald on 12/21 POTP re libertarian econ. But if I had to carp: Ron Paul spread the word on libertarian econ when Tucker was a grown-up. So it's not as though Tucker had to've read Rothbard to

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@RBReich This chart tracks pre-tax profits of nonfinancial corporations as % of income. At 18.7% in this year's 2nd quarter, profit margins are lower than in Q2 2021 & on a par w/the low inflation quarter Q3 2020 (red line). But can mere facts stop RBR from puling memos from his midriff?!

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How's this for an amazing stat? My stepdaughter Ayaka just gave birth to Izumi Lee Meyerson on Sept. 11 2019 at 11:59 PM! She apparently decided to reclaim 9-11 as a day of joy!

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Still alive at 75 & w/no "co-morbidities" at all (never spent a nite in a hospital), I assume that even on the remote chance I caught COVID, I'd pull thru fine. So I insist on living a normal life. But if were a 74-y.o. fatso like Trump, w/a prominent job, I'd be more cautious.

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Yesterday eve at the Brooklyn Comedy Club, my spirits were sent aloft by @RobbieTheFire , who evoked our helpless laughter w/rapid-fire jokes about human & state-imposed folly, followed by @ComicDaveSmith , who was just as sensational. Thanks to you both, you stalwarts of standup!

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7% PRICE INFLATION: So far this year, the 7-month annualized increase thru July in the Consumer Price Index has run 7.13% (chart), a rate of increase not seen in nearly 40 years.

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A post-Thanksgiving Day tx to folks who've helped keep me sane by informing me about Covid, including (but not limited to) @ThomasEWoods , Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor , @AlexBerenson , @DrJayRichards , @jeffreyatucker , @MartinKulldorff , @jhaskinscabrera , @jeremyrhammond , @NickHudsonCT .

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@JillFilipovic Jill, I trust you understand that those who choose to home-school--or favor any other form of school-choice--respect YOUR right to school your kids at a gov't-run school if you wish? And that all they ask is that you pay them the same respect?

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@NickKristof Nick, if a gun in the home increases homicide risk, then the huge increase over the past few decades in per capita gun ownership should have coincided with a huge rise in the rate of gun-caused homicides. How do you explain the fact that the reverse has occurred?

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Leave it to @ComicDaveSmith to shock us thru straightforward reporting. He quotes Pres Biden declaring that the sanctions were never meant to deter Russia, only to give pain & the pain will include "food shortages" in Europe & the US! March 26 episode.

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In the 2002 Superbowl, advertising corps included: AOL, Blockbuster, Radio Shack, Circuit City, CompUSA, Sears Roebuck, HotJobs, Yahoo, Voicestream Wireless, Gateway Computers--corps either gone or a fragment of their former selves. O how the mighty can fall under capitalism!

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I explain why Anthony Fauci & former National Institutes of Health Director Frances Collins are cordially invited to attend this debate (free of charge!) between @DrJBhattacharya & @SVermund & come to the afterparty at my place, catered by my wife Hisako.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Focused protection, as set forth in the Great Barrington Declaration, should be the general principle of public health management of highly infectious respiratory virus pandemics.

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@RBReich Do you realize that the true torrent of tickle-down has come from the Federal Reserve spending $trillions in printed $ on the purchase of bonds--a truly treacherous trickle-down that you've been tragically silent about? Hard to overstate how damaging that has been!

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@evanrodgers Evan, when Henry David Thoreau went to jail for refusing to pay a tax that helped fund the Mexican-American war, was he also stealing from the American people?

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@ComicDaveSmith In my lifetime (76 yrs as of Thursday), and w/respect to lies by the corporate press in terms of consequences, nothing quite compares w/the lies to further US wars in Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) from the mid-1950s-mid-1970s, w/millions killed as a result.

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@caitoz Caitlin, if you're convinced that landlording is such a great & effortless capitalist joy ride, why not pool your funds with those of similar belief, buy up some properties, take in the torrent of cash & then donate the ill-gotten gains to worthy endeavors of your choice?

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New of the FDA crackdown on vaping reminds me of Milton Friedman's declaring: The government has no more right to tell me what goes into my mouth than it has to tell me what comes out of my mouth.

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I dislike that widely circulated photo of me (in which I look slightly constipated), much preferring the one accompanying my Twitter account, taken more recently. Otherwise, my name is Gene & I approve this message!

Dr. Michael Rectenwald

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We are grateful to be endorsed by the brilliant and courageous @GeneSohoForum .

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"She’s been heartened by 'a brave set of black intellectuals, to whom I’ve been turning for weeks. @JohnHMcWhorter @GlennLoury @coldxman @ThomasSowell @jasonrileywsj are in a unique position to advance common sense.'" Quite right. Worth following!

Opinion | One Step Ahead of the Woke Mob

Amid successive global hysterias, says the novelist and exercise fanatic Lionel Shriver, ‘satire can’t keep up.’

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3 years

Mommy was a Commie, b. 106 yrs ago today. My son Jim once asked her, “Granma, as a Communist, should you really be investing in the stock market?” Her reply: “What, only the capitalists should get rich?!”

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@ComicDaveSmith This chart tracks the decline in daily Covid-related hospitalizations in the 5 boroughs of NYC through Nov. 23, posted by the NYC Health Dept. I do seem to recall that a few months ago, some new variant was supposed to kick it sky-high.

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To @benshapiro May I respectfully suggest a New Year's Resolution? That you resolve to apply your razor-sharp mind to the debating arena at the Soho Forum, which has offered you the opportunity to put @scotthortonshow in his place? (See three previous tweets to you.)

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Ludwig von Mises, b. 141 yrs ago today in the palindromic yr 1881, was the 20th century's greatest economist. Had he not fled Hitler for NYC in 1940--teaching a seminar at NYU attended by students who eventually helped teach me--my own intellectual development would've suffered.

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If Lisa Thompson gets paid to serve as Vice President of Research at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, isn't this research-for-money an act of coercion by its very nature, since it means she doesn't really want to provide you this research on sexual exploitation?!

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5 years

Great economist L.v. Mises b. 138 yrs ago today: “It is not true that the advocates of the free-market are defenders of the selfish interests of the rich.The interests of the capitalists also demand intervention.The free market is to be recommended in the interest of the masses.”

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@ComicDaveSmith @mkibbe On 7th day after its release, Kristol- @scotthortonshow debate has gotten more than 52K views on YouTube. Also available at The Soho Forum Debates podcast.

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The late, great Murray Rothbard, b. 94 yrs ago today, wrote brilliant essays, 51 of which are collected in ECONOMIC CONTROVERSIES, published by the Mises Inst. ($3 on Kindle), w/an Intro that begins: "It was nearly 40 yrs ago that Murray Rothbard changed my life"--written by me.

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Massie is Sassy ("lively, bold & full of spirit; cheeky"). I never miss @RepThomasMassie 's appearances w/ @mkibbe , @ggreenwald , @TuckerCarlson because he uniquely & drolly reports his trouble-making escapades in the belly of the beast: the US Congress.

Glenn Greenwald

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Listen to @RepThomasMassie explain how obsessed the US Congress is with one foreign country. They've held more votes on Israel than on the US, the country they're supposed to be representing. Worse, some of those votes have directly attacked Americans' free speech rights.

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@MarkRuffalo "devasted by the loss of Americans," Mark, but presumably indifferent to one million-plus deaths he inflicted on Vietnamese, many of them innocent women & children?

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Kristol vs. Horton Debate Video is Now Available!

Watch or listen now!

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2 years

@RBReich Memo to RBR's followers about economic history: The heavily unionized steel & auto industries suffered massive layoffs that make these look puny by comparison.

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