George Gilder on Uncommon Knowledge

George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty, the book that became a best seller during the first year of the Reagan years and a guide to the Reagan administration itself, is now--just in time perhaps for the Romney years--available in a new edition.
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[@lincolnabc1]

Fantastic. Simply fantastic. Bravo.

[@basscataz]

just started watching and ive already "liked" this. bc i know that no matter how i feel about the guest, i will gain insight into him. I love Uncommon Knowledge!!

[@GarrettPetersen]

Ah, "the Romney years". If things don't go our way in November, I'll re-watch this episode and weep for what could have been.

[@stevenwiederholt3533]

LOL!!! Well Put!

[@Qupppa]

By the way, is there any chance you could invite back Mark Steyn? He's currently promoting the paperback edition of 'After America', and I really enjoyed Peter Robinson's interview with him about 'America Alone'.

[@L3opard123]

Why is the stories of Reagan so far disconnected from reality, logic and reason?

[@dswagler]

This. FTW.

[@jamesforeman4368]

Great interview. Keeping with the final quote, I have from time to time asked some of my liberal friends if Socrates was poor? The response is quite interesting, they take supreme umbrage at the question. To this day I have yet to have one even attempt to answer the question, but they do have very red faces, no pun intended.

[@vkorchnoifan]

Romney didn't express confidence in his capitalism.

[@puppetsock]

Ron Paul.

[@RawandCookedVegan]

His comments on Sweden are ridiculous, the Swedes have among the best standard of living in the world. The fact that the richest folks try to avoid paying taxes doesn't delegitimize the system. Many are willing to pay their taxes and enjoy the consequent benefits that are spread throughout society.

[@richardparker123]

Raw and Cooked Vegan He was referring to Sweden in the mid to late 20th Century.

[@SamuelLegrandCox]

Explicit working definitions of "capitalism" and "crony capitalism" would have contributed greatly to this interview. Also, I suggest that listeners who enjoyed this interview with Gilder will also enjoy the new book "Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government" by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins.

[@puppetsock]

He answers that the tiny minority should be allowed to hold wealth because they produce wealth. Not that it's moral to let peole keep their property, but because of the utility of keeping investors around. It's the "it works" argument. This guy has read Rand? He didn't read very carefully. Capitalism is justified because it is moral, and it is the only system that is. The fact it also happens to produce huge increases in wealth is a happy extra.

[@Onieracraft]

This comment comes close to ruling YOU out of the sphere of polite society. You are familiar with the Circumstantial Ad Hominem fallacy are you not?

[@bungeebones]

Here's the option George Gilder fails to offer: Create the money to pay the debt off every year to create a "balanced' budget. That would clear the books every year AND every generation so that they would pay for their own misappropriations (in the form of inflation) and would take away their ability to pass them onto future currently non-voting (i.e. the children and minors) generations (a form of "taxation without representation" on the unborn).

[@thanksfernuthin]

I can imagine President Obama saying, "The Republicans always have the same answers... Thirsty? Drink some water. Hungry? Eat some food. Tired? Go to sleep. (applause) They never have new answers like my carbon fiber, solar powered, integrated thingamajig cap!"

[@Qupppa]

Enjoyable interview, but it's difficult to take a creationist seriously on any matter.

[@pretorious700]

Obama's rhetoric is so empty.