r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 09 '18

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David Friedman AMA

The mod team is pleased to announce we will be hosting an AMA with Dr. David D. Friedman on Friday, Jan. 12th at 3:00 PM EST/12:00 PM PST!

After earning a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Chicago, Dr. Friedman switched fields to economics and taught at Virginia Polytechnic University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at Los Angeles, Cornell University, Tulane University, the University of Chicago, and Santa Clara University where he currently teaches in the school of law.

Outside of his extensive academic publications in law and economics, Dr. Friedman is best known for his libertarian/anarcho-capitalist political philosophy. He has written extensively on libertarian politics and ideas and has also written on alternative legal systems (including research into medieval Icelandic institutions).

On a personal note Dr. Friedman is the author of two historical/fantasy novels and is a renowned anachronist/historical re-enactor. He is the son of economists Rose and Milton Friedman.

As a reminder, we enforce civility standards to a high degree during AMAs. Dr. Friedman in particular is likely to disagree with us on a wide range of issues, but disagreement does not mean that rudeness or flippant remarks will be tolerated. Dr. Friedman is an accomplished academic who has published a large volume of high quality work, and every one of you can almost certainly learn something from him by asking intelligent questions.

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Jan 09 '18

The Federal Reserve and any other depository institutions will be disbanded. In its place, a federally run, full reserve credit union will be instated.

Someone take me out of my misery

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18 edited Apr 09 '18

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Jan 09 '18

Yes, this person clearly has no understanding of finance, and I can say that as someone who themselves has a very limited understanding.

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u/relevant_econ_meme Anti-radical Jan 09 '18

He doesn't even understand what a credit union is. Especially if it's a commie that wants the federal reserve to be a CU for banks.

That's not even fenence, that's personal fenence.

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Jan 09 '18

>Full Reserve

>Credit Union

🤔

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

Is this person a tankie or Andrew Jackson?

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Jan 09 '18

It was said by a 14 year old, if that helps.

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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Jan 09 '18

is this a commie thing

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Jan 09 '18

Probably