It is really hard to believe that Bruce Bartlett once worked for Ron Paul. And friends tell me he was a pretty solid libertarian. Things have changed.He just tweeted this about Herman Cain:
What a bunch of coprolite.Appointing a believer in the gold standard to the Federal Reserve Board is equivalent to appointing a believer in astrology to run NASA or a believer in alchemy to run the National Science Foundation.— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) April 7, 2019
It is very difficult to become more of a statist sellout than by tweeting something like this.
Of course, the real problem with Cain is not that he favors the gold standard but that he favors a peculiar version of the gold standard that calls for money printing!
-RW
Greenspan and Bartlett are brothers. They saw the light and snuffed it out for fear of seeing themselves.
ReplyDeleteI do like his starter list of institutions that should be eliminated... the fed, Nasa, NSF
ReplyDeleteHow ironic that Bartlett would compare a supporter of the gold standard to a believer in alchemy trying to run the National Science Foundation, when it's the modern central banker who is the alchemist. They're the ones who practice the pseudo science of turning paper into gold.
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