Amass wealth and raised to help overcome those obstacles it. This is about an hour and a half law. The committee will come to order. I know its that all shall be present. Without objections the committee has authorized to declare a recess at the committee at any time without objection, they will accept the full committee on the subcommittee are authorized to participate in todays hearing. The committee is meeting today, pursuant to notice the testimony on examining the racial engender and wealth gap. I now recognize myself four minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing is rendered allround a subcommittee exists and the racial and wealth gap is real and acceptable and actually much larger than people think it could be get total access the cash retirement now or youre home and then subtracting abilities such as Credit Card Debt, student loans, mortgage to reach your net worth. But according to the United States in borough, the net worth of white households was 130,000 and 800
Im reihan salam. Im president of the Manhattan Institute. And i wanted to start the evening by explaining exactly why this prize is so important to us. The hayek prize is a celebration of Friedrich Hayek, one of the most consequential thinkers of the modern era, a celebrated who was awarded the nobel prize in 1974. Hayek did more than just make intellectual breakthroughs. He inspired a generation of economic reformers who helped liberate countless millions from poverty around the world. And his message remains vitally important as we look to the future. In his 1944 book, the road to serfdom, hayek drew a connection between economic and freedom more generally, arguing that government control of economic Decision Making paved the way to further encroachments on individual rights and the use of knowledge in society. A groundbreaking article published in 1945, he carefully and methodically dismantled the logic behind economic collectivism at a time when the worlds intellectual elite was co
Im reihan salam. Im president of the Manhattan Institute. And i wanted to start the evening by explaining exactly why this prize is so important to us. The hayek prize is a celebration of Friedrich Hayek, one of the most consequential thinkers of the modern era, a celebrated who was awarded the nobel prize in 1974. Hayek did more than just make intellectual breakthroughs. He inspired a generation of economic reformers who helped liberate countless millions from poverty around the world. And his message remains vitally important as we look to the future. In his 1944 book, the road to serfdom, hayek drew a connection between economic and freedom more generally, arguing that government control of economic Decision Making paved the way to further encroachments on individual rights and the use of knowledge in society. A groundbreaking article published in 1945, he carefully and methodically dismantled the logic behind economic collectivism at a time when the worlds intellectual elite was co
Im president of the Manhattan Institute. And i wanted to start the evening by explaining exactly why this prize is so important to us. The hayek prize is a celebration of Friedrich Hayek, one of the most consequential thinkers of the modern era, a celebrated who was awarded the nobel prize in 1974. Hayek did more than just make intellectual breakthroughs. He inspired a generation of economic reformers who helped liberate countless millions from poverty around the world. And his message remains vitally important as we look to the future. In his 1944 book, the road to serfdom, hayek drew a connection between economic and freedom more generally, arguing that government control of economic Decision Making paved the way to further encroachments on individual rights and the use of knowledge in society. A groundbreaking article published in 1945, he carefully and methodically dismantled the logic behind economic collectivism at a time when the worlds intellectual elite was convinced that stat
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