Is a little under an hour. [applause] its always a pleasure to be here im a huge fan of heritage foundation, everything that they do, actually. They were the first outlet to pick up my syndicated column. I do have a fourth book before bullies, i spoke here at heritage for that too. Im also the editor at large of breitbart news, so if youre bored or have an ipad, you can tune in at 870. Com. I want to start by talking about andrew breitbart. Andrew was a mentor of mine. I met andrew when i was 17 years old. He had just seen a column i wrote for the ucla daily bruin, and he was sitting in a greasy taco joint, saw the column and then promptly emailed me. At the time, andrew was just the secret other half of the drudge report. We got together, we became fast friends. And one of the things that andrew and i used to talk about a lot because we knew each other for over a decade before his untimely death, he used to talk a lot about how the left were a bunch of bullies, how what the left reall
And that these books were written in part out of desperation. I was having to think earlier with a grad student and we were reflecting on how we struggled in some of our economic stat classes. Naked economics was written almost by accident in the sense that ive been assigned a class to teach economics to journalist. I called my i was unsuccessfully trying to sell a book on the gambling industry. Never got that went in. It was a good book to be written and i said to her, i have to teach this economics cost a bunch of journalists. The textbook would be inappropriate. I cant find anything that would convey why they should care about this. That wouldnt consume with the math and the questions. It was a long pause and she said, you are going to write it and its going to be called economics for poets and im going to read it. So thats a naked economics was born. And wants that kind of found a niche among people who been scared away, or bored to death, but economic classes, we said lets go back
The people. Host what about the question of money supply in the government . Guest that is interesting. Take it back a little ways. In 199091 i was invited to a meeting in europe, only time i have been to europe to a meeting. There were a lot of big brains there. Going down the danube with five nobel Prize Winners and i wasnt one of them and it was Milton Friedman, and headed debate with Milton Friedman, mr. Freemarket about free and competitive money and he was arguing the government should control the money supply. Competitive money, reliable economy with fewer panic. Religion, what would the founders say . The founders were unanimous the government should not establish a religion nor should it prevent the worship of any sport. Every state constitution has the words god and half of them have a word jesus christ in them. And they had jesus christ in their constitution. Virtually all of the founders were of a mind that you needed to make sure government did not force people to practice
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