Who Said That?

by Don Boudreaux on October 20, 2009

in Government intervention in housing

I love Larry Ribstein’s line, in this post over at Ideoblog, about the ventriloquist and the dummy.

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  • Reuvain Borchardt
    Great point, Don. That's similar to the point George Selgin made in a panel discussion RE: the Federal Reserve at Fordham Law School last spring. Someone tried blaming the (severity of the) current recession on the complex financial instruments; Selgin responded that although the point may be correct, that's similar to blaming the plane crash on gravity!

    (btw, Don posted the link to that fabulous panel discussion, sponsored by the Smith Family Foundation, a while ago; if you haven't seen it, here it is again http://blip.tv/file/2382862 )
  • Drs. Boudreaux and Roberts, did you see this?
    http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/10/17/h...

    Via Dr. Newmark.
  • vikingvista
    The ventriloquist is a dummy.
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