Comments (9)

• Jeff

  Thanks for that link - very interesting.

  Published: June 9, 2009 1:13 PM

• Patrick

  Is Ebeling a zero-government libertarian? Or is he an (minimal) archist?

  Published: June 9, 2009 2:10 PM

• Patrick

  Just watching video...it stopped playing for me before the interview was over. I just went to Fox's website to see if they had a copy of the video there...I couldn't find one.

  Published: June 9, 2009 2:18 PM

• Bruce Koerber

  Education and Ethics
  Tuesday, June 9, 2009

  Without Ethics The Media Promulgates Fascism!
  
  Few and far between are the questions about the ethics of the media. Could Neil Cavuto be risking his career by asking questions about his peers and the ones in control of the media?

  Creating a command economy with a plethora of czars put in charge of the arbitrarily dissected compartments is easily recognizable as 'Soviet-style' and so the public relations arm of the unConstitutional coup is trying to move away from using the word 'czar.'

  The socialistic fascists are afraid of the revulsion that most people have towards socialists and fascists. But these ego-driven politicians are perfectly comfortable with lying; and so they will pretend that they are not socialists and that they are not fascists.
  

  Published: June 9, 2009 4:39 PM

• N. Joseph Potts

  I've been trying all afternoon to get this thing to run. Nothing. I can't even get a still image - just text.

  Published: June 9, 2009 5:26 PM

• J.R.

  Hi N. Joseph Potts,

  Try here:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrx9vXhLGKw

  Published: June 9, 2009 7:15 PM

• M.M

  Thanks J.R.

  Published: June 10, 2009 4:33 AM

• Brian

  I admire Richard Ebeling and believe he is one of the best spokesman for the free market. But the most significant part of this interview comes after Cavuto complains that Obama has set up numerous czars. The car czar, and the health care czar, and the wage czar, etc and Ebeling responds that this is turning the U.S. into a collectivist society which will destroy individual rights and is a bad direction.

  Then, trying to make a joke Ebeling says that given the rumors about the financial difficulties of the media industry might "we see a Neil Cavuto media czar?" Cavuto responds in a serious tone "that would be cool."

  Cavuto, a so-called "conservative" commentator can't resist the power of "being in charge." Oh I can hear you now..."not me, I wouldn't make that choice." But my experience with human nature is that almost everyone would give the same response if they thought the offer was real.

  Every successful human being wants to live large on minimal effort and it takes an unusual individual to resist stealing and even killing if they can "get away with it." Politics has proven to be a most effective way to "get away with it." Talking and writing about the ideas of liberty and individual rights won't change that.

  I wonder how Mr. Ebeling would respond if he were given the opportunity to be the economy czar?

  Published: June 10, 2009 10:32 AM

• Richard Ebeling

  Brian asks how I would respond if I were given the opportunity to be the "economy czar" of America.

  I would answer that same way that Ludwig von Mises was recorded to have replied. In the early 1940s, at a dinner party in Mises' honor at Leonard Read's home in Los Angeles, one of the other guests asked, after a long discussion of the sorry state of U.S. economic affairs, what he, Mises, would do if he were made the economic czar of the U.S.?

  Mises replied, with no hesitation: "I would abdicate."

  That is the only answer a classical liberal and Austrian Economist can give. First, no real liberal can presume to take control over other people's lives and liberty. Second, no Austrian Economist can presume to have sufficient knowledge, wisdom and ability to replace the price system and the competitive market place.

  Richard Ebeling

  Published: June 11, 2009 8:03 AM