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Friday, October 21 - 4:14amSanction this postReply
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You did send a copy of this to The Times, didn't you?



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Friday, October 21 - 5:24amSanction this postReply
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No, I didn't. The Times refuses everything I send them other than a letter now and then. You could try! :-)



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Friday, October 21 - 5:59amSanction this postReply
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“if Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission really want to protect [us,] they should prohibit unsophisticated players from” writing op-ed pieces of the sort that Mr. Swensen penned for The New York Times.


This is priceless Tibor! :)



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Friday, October 21 - 7:57amSanction this postReply
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So long as unsophisticated investors continue to make money in the markets we should be relatively safe from federal interventionist policy.  When they begin to lose money (along with the more "sophisticated" types too) government intervention will be inevitable.  An angry public leads to a more intrusive republic.



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Friday, October 21 - 10:04amSanction this postReply
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Tibor,

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You could try! :-)
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May I copy, paste, sign & send this essay to NYT? I will, of course, omit the second word "folks" and leave in the colon -- only then the colon will refer to the whole essay, but even astute readers won't figure that out.

Ed




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Friday, October 21 - 3:51pmSanction this postReply
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Unfortunately, Tibor, once again, there are all too many idiots out there who can't seem to discern an abstraction.

You analogy re the First Amendment is good. The Bill of Rights, in modern analysis, is seen as encompassing only "social rights" not economic rights. But the Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment, is a powerful metaphor for the free-market. Leave me alone unless you've got a damn good reason not to. Abstractly, that's what it says.

Ross

NB: Mises talked about the unworkability of the socialist system due to the impossibility of information flow, feedback mechanisms, individuals acting alone, etc. The market needs all types of information to function. The cunning & the idiotic investor are both valuable & essential.



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Sunday, October 23 - 12:27amSanction this postReply
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Ross - you write, "The cunning & the idiotic investor are both valuable & essential."

I'll bite. Exactly how is the idiotic investor essential?




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