Et Tu, Tutu?

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I heard a snippet on CNN of an interview with Desmond Tutu where he made the statement that a country’s leader (a man whose policies of destruction of the country’s currency as well as the property and other civil rights of the people, and the beneficiary of a rigged election) should resign now, “while there is still time”. Imagine my dissapointment upon discovering not only that the president in question wasn’t George Bush, but that the former Anglican archbishop’s statement was a not so veiled exhortation for Mr. Bush to attack another tyrant (Mugabe) destroying his ‘own’ country. Please, your excellency, please stop.

Yay! Rothbard Audio Available!

I have always been a big fan of Audible.com since I don’t get much time to sit and read for any length of time. So I was thrilled when I just saw that Murray Rothbard’s “America’s Great Depression” was now available as an audio download. It made my morning.

I can’t wait to get it onto my iPod. I’m sure it’ll be great. But don’t take my word for it. Listen to what this guy had to say at Amazon.com.

this is one of the most enraging books I have ever read about anything related to economics. The author seems to forget that underneath ALL of the formulas and “trends” in any field of economics lies WEALTH. REAL, SUBSTANTIAL, PRODUCTIVE, LABOR-RELATED WEALTH. This is something even Keynesian economists fail in recognizing…any book which does not recognize the intervention of FDR’s fiscal policy as a return to the philosophy of our founding fathers (IE. Henry Clay, Alexander Hamilton)and the only way we could have possibly survived the depression and the mobilization to fight fascism is a POORLY written book from an author who is obviously misinformed by the popular trash of classroom and related ivory tower academia.

That’s enough of a recommendation for me! However, the vast majority of readers gave it 4-5 stars.