Kilkenomics

KyussBishop

Just posted these videos in an AH thread, and (most of the way through first one atm) they are very very good; Pat Rabbit, Max Keiser and Bill Black (an excellent economics writer) and others, speaking at Kilkenomics:

Part1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woPc5puM3aI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woPc5puM3aI

Part2: (EDIT: Cuts off near the end, but I think the meat of it is all there)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eti_kjwdaV4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eti_kjwdaV4

Additionally, here is a blog which Bill Black posts on regularly, which is an excellent resource:
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/


Some very good (and oft-times amusing) discussion there, on the state of the Irish economy and how things have been dealt with thus far, which is quite interesting.

KyussBishop

If anyone has or can find more videos on Kilkenomics this year, that'd be interesting to check out; I can only see a handful on YouTube.

Whiskeyjack

Max Kaiser and David McWilliams are a pair of populists only concerned with generating ratings or book sales. Having them there degenerates the whole festival into a joke.

KyussBishop

I don't know David McWilliams at all really, but Max Keiser was pretty entertaining there; how is it 'populist' for him to turn up at a niche economics festival in Ireland (that I can only find a handful of videos on), when he has his own TV show on RT with plenty of coverage?

There was some pretty good (and entertaining enough) criticism of government in the video there, all around.

Brussels Sprout

Heard Keiser on the radio alright and he seemed to be milking the whole "misery-porn" angle for all it was worth. Basically predicting that the apocalypse was nigh and reveling in it.