John there are three ways to help people who need help, government can try to do it. Give people money, start programs. Charities do that too, and id say theyre better at teaching people how to help themselves. Theres the saying goes teach a man to fish. Then theres a third way, i think its the best way. Ill get to that later in the show. But first lets debate the first two. When i was in college, president Lyndon Johnson declared allout war on human poverty. He said for the first time in our history, its possible to conquer poverty. I believe him then but i watched his poverty programs create more poverty. Governments spent trillions of dollars and people are still poor. People on the left say the money was still worth it. Look at this chart. He chose that the poverty rate fell sharply after the war on poverty began. Thats great, but wait, he extends the chart back a few years to when data was kept on the poverty rate. You notice it was already falling. Just as fast. But then it stopp
Separate arab and jewish states. Fighting broke out between the two groups and israel declared independence in may 1948. The next day, israel was invaded by jordan, egypt, lebanon, syria and iraq. But the fledgling country survived. The u. N. Passed resolution 194 in december 1948 which allowed ref are geez who wished to live peacefully the right to return home at the earliest practical date. Nearly 20 years later in 1967, israel pre em tifl struck Egyptian Forces after the access was blocked to the port. Israel gained control over areas including the west bank and gaza strip and east jerusalem. For arabs, this was the beginning of a period of occupation by israel which remains at the center of todays conflict. Now, there would be another air rob israeli war in 1973. Before that, theres the formation of the plo or the Palestinian Liberation Organization which would be defined by the likes of yasir arafat. In 1978, u. S. President jimmy carter helped to broker the peace accords between
Gathering of three minds to put on a conference that is a renaissance gathering of freethinkers. My idea has been the Freedom Movement broadly defined. Host politically what does that mean . Guest economic and maximum freedom libertarians we are not anarchist although we do have some here and it is growing. The ada is most libertarians are like hertz of cats face seldom get together to conspire. [laughter] so my idea is they dont do any live streaming. You can buy the tapes after words but 2200 people and plan of a wide. Organize libertarianism . Is working. I am in economist growing up in Portland Oregon that is the intellectual town in the Worlds Largest bookstore for i have been the intellectual type so the renaissance man is correct. And then to have a ph. D. Of economics my family lives in death star. That is what we call it but we a got tired of the rat race we lived in the bahamas life in living color recede enough in taxes to buy a flat in london then removed back to orlando no
Birthday. Have i no doubt it will be marks best presentation yet. You might ask, why am i willing to go out on a limb this way . Well, as an economyism might put it, on the one hand, according to the website superscholar. Org, mark is one of the top 20 living economists in the world. I guess that designation is a gentle way of reminding us that as the no longer living economist john keens famously said, in the long run, were all dead. But i digress. Marks topranked status was echos by a can columnist who recently and given tonights subject matter fittingly wrote that mark has emerged as one of the clearest writers on our all matters economic today. The next Milton Friedman. Back to what economists would say. On the other hand, mark comes by his knowledge of Milton Friedman on a firsthand basis. As he will reveal in his talk, miltons paradise, my friendly fights with Milton Friedman. They had a dear but occasionally prickly relationship. They argued over issues but always remained cordi
Has all the latest information and Health Advice on the coronavirus outbreak, in this special programme. Hello and welcome to this special programme. Im accuracy. Overthe next half an hour, we going to try and tell you as much as we can about coronavirus to help you and so you can share the information with others. And a reminder, for the latest on the spread of coronavirus, you can noise had to the website for more information on how it is affecting people in your community and your country. First, we all know the main advice to stop the virus from spreading, wash your hands, regularly for around 20 seconds. Avoid touching yourface regularly for around 20 seconds. Avoid touching your face and maintain social distancing, which is making sure there is two metres around you and everyone else. As laura foster explains. Politicians, scientists and even celebrities all wa nt scientists and even celebrities all want us to practise social distancing. It means no coming into contact with peopl