As economist William Anderson explains, "presidential elections in the United States spawn Really Bad Economic Policies, and 2016 is a vintage year."
Candidates promise everything from living wages to free health care and college. Proposals about how to run whole segments of the economy are made with a straight face. The most tired and hackneyed ideas about income equality, corporate greed, creating jobs, and paying one's fair share of taxes are trotted out. And millions of voters apparently believe it all, falling for the same promises of free stuff and prosperity from Washington.
How do political candidates get away with this nonsense, year after year and election after election? More importantly, what can we do as individuals to fight the entrenched economic illiteracy that keeps politicians in business?
Schedule (all times PDT)
11:30 a.m. Jeff Deist "The Greatest Myth"
11:50 a.m. Walter Block "Me, Bernie, and Minimum Wage"
12:10 p.m. Ryan McMaken "Three Lies You’ll Hear from the Candidates This Year"
12:30 p.m. Q&A
12:50 p.m. Break
1:10 p.m. Contra Krugman Show with Tom Woods and Bob Murphy
2:00 p.m. Adjourn
Join Walter Block, Tom Woods, Bob Murphy, Ryan McMaken, and Jeff Deist at the Mises Circle, Town Hall Seattle, as they demolish the economic myths of the 2016 election…
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