tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post5381363955412801297..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Talking The War on Drugs, TARP and Power Centers with Neil Barofsky (Before he becomes too busy to carry on the interview)Robert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-58186421298135165832012-09-05T12:36:54.210-04:002012-09-05T12:36:54.210-04:00Roddis,
You could even get Barofsky to stay on a ...Roddis,<br /><br />You could even get Barofsky to stay on a show, if you didn't ask him about his personal failure in the drug war.Banaceknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-56205857202377548162012-09-05T12:31:48.263-04:002012-09-05T12:31:48.263-04:00Russ Roberts apparently got Barofsky to stay for a...Russ Roberts apparently got Barofsky to stay for a full hour. <br /><br />http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/09/barofsky_on_bai.htmlBob Roddishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263804608074597937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-88967110171021957362012-09-04T19:16:37.738-04:002012-09-04T19:16:37.738-04:00What's amazing to me is the perception he has ...What's amazing to me is the perception he has of himself and what he has done. His suggestions were ignored on TARP, so that means government needs reform. However, he wants to reform government to his view of what government should be. It is the wolves guarding the hen house, he just wants to be the head wolf.<br /><br />There is never the introspective that it is government that is the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-17307267424371344572012-09-03T21:03:51.299-04:002012-09-03T21:03:51.299-04:00Amazing, even as this guy stands in the muck, grim...Amazing, even as this guy stands in the muck, grime, and slime of the state. He can only bring himself to see it's just the framework of the state, not the edifice itself that is the problem. <br />Mr. Barofsky ripping out those rotten timbers will do us no good, since the new ones you install, will only instantaneously rot again. The whole building needs to be blown to smithereens, and DaRightRadicalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-4034204872177133542012-09-03T20:07:29.573-04:002012-09-03T20:07:29.573-04:00Robert,
I really enjoy your site and you have ...Robert, <br /><br /> I really enjoy your site and you have proven yourself to be a top player in the Austrian School - but I agree with Lance that you are almost hostile in your interviews, even when interviewing other libertarians. I think that it does more harm than good - but on the other hand it nice to have the differences between cato, mercatus, and mises pointed out. I really enjoy Kryxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-87645654861060769812012-09-03T15:16:32.184-04:002012-09-03T15:16:32.184-04:00Point taken, in most cases you are correct, but he...Point taken, in most cases you are correct, but he's a former U.S. attorney. I had to smash him.Robert Wenzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-32560259103648357902012-09-03T15:10:00.618-04:002012-09-03T15:10:00.618-04:00great interview!
love it when you go after the bad...great interview!<br />love it when you go after the bad guys/idiots<br /><br />my only advice is that you should be nicer, ask the question in a tone that sounds like you're his friend/that you're on the same team. that way you can get a lot deeper and get more out of them and maybe even get them to change their stance. <br /><br />as they say: hard on the issues, soft on the person.<br />Lancenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-47615565660151125372012-09-02T16:06:19.422-04:002012-09-02T16:06:19.422-04:00Awesome interview. It is fun as hell to listen to ...Awesome interview. It is fun as hell to listen to these guys get uncomfortable. When I hear guys like this get interviewed on MSM I am always annoyed by the lack of any really good questions being asked. On your show, I never have that issue. Fantastic stuff. Keep it up.Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-78162667473297898502012-09-02T10:48:04.388-04:002012-09-02T10:48:04.388-04:00Thanks a million for these interviews! You have a ...Thanks a million for these interviews! You have a great ability to get important questions into the conversation even if the cowardly interviewee will not answer. Loved the way the brave hero Barofsky fails to stand firm when he is asked to out his actual masters and now we know that he is part of a "Directed Opposition"! Good work.Sad Mannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-36285770900448686512012-09-02T10:06:55.833-04:002012-09-02T10:06:55.833-04:00What I don't understand is how people don'...What I don't understand is how people don't make a simple connection about TARP and the "taxpayer funded" bailouts -- that the US Federal Government had to borrow the money FROM THE VERY BANKS it was bailing out. You don't have money? You go to the bond market. Who are the bond market participants? The primary dealers. The primary dealers ARE the banks that got bailed Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-71306000253417024262012-09-02T08:59:42.034-04:002012-09-02T08:59:42.034-04:00excellent interviewexcellent interviewBoetienoreply@blogger.com