Question for Michael Nystrom or anyone else.

Thanks for pointing that site out. I think its great. The more scientific arguments we get over Austrian Economics the better. The criticisms may be valid, but certainly it is done in the scientific vien of making an argument, as opposed to being simply argumentative.

So I say, chill, its a good thing. It asks and demands answers. For the scholarly this is excellent. Its far from the Hanity type punditry that is just lots of blather.

Let it go.... smile, and be happy someone is taking Austrian economics seriously enough to try to rationally poke holes in it..... which i am sure there is ....and I am sure that makes it all the better when Austrain Economics 2.0 comes out.

Treg

Google adsense checks the content of the page, that is, commonly used words, phrases and such, from which it gleans the site's content. It then automatically chooses content fitting ads that it places on the site. Michael doesn't control them.

Google Ads are pay per click. In one or two days by clicking often you can burn 3,4, 5 thousand dollars of their ad money.

We had a competitor do it to us. This is the big problem with google ads and why I don't use them and never will use them again..

Especially for opposition campaigns and the like. It will cost them money and bring revenue to the dailypaul. Also, bear in mind that for some one to pay good money for that add to be up there just to detract from Dr. Paul, means that someone feels the need to fight him.

First they ignore you,
then they mock you,
then they fight you,
then you win.

Everyone below has rightfully made the case, and I appreciate that.

Yes, Google ads help keep the lights on. There are ads from Huck & Rudy, but imho, they're idiots to advertise here. Is anyone going to be converted from a Google ad on this site? Me thinks not.

I did see this that Mash the Gas spoke of and I was concerned so I checked it out. I was very curious to see what 7 questions would make me squirm. It turns out that it is a book that is a "Critique of Austrian Economics."

Here are a few examples of what should have you squirming:

1) As discussed in Section II, Hayek was unclear whether his structure of production represents a yearly flow of goods or a distribution of wealth. Mises and Rothbard, like Hayek, seem to mean one and also the other. Skousen is at least consistent but, unfortunately, he is consistently wrong. He definitely means the amount of goods flowing by every year. This author’s work (1999) is about stock, not supply.

Squirming yet? How about this then:

2) As discussed in Section III, Hayek’s triangle is printed sideways and backwards. The former problem can be corrected by rotating the graph but the latter problem is more fundamental. Hayek is speaking from the perspective of the owner of the final product looking back on his costs of production. He is speaking from Marx’s perspective. The perspective that we want is from right now, at time zero, looking forward into the future.

Let's see if #7 gets you squirming:

7) Austrian economists seem naïve because their belief in a natural interest rate implies an ethical judgment on what is natural or unnatural, their discussion of the inevitable collapse of a credit expansion is typically presented as a sort of morality play and because they advocate an impractical 100% reserve requirement based solely on ethical considerations.

Hmmm....Hardly anything to worry about, imho.

As has been suggested above, feel free to click on that ad and see that Mr. Aguilar has to offer (I guarantee you that there is nothing to fear there).

The first point to note is that the web site doesn't offer 7 questions in any clear fashion (or even an unclear fashion) and when I used google to search for "Ron Paul" on that site it came up with zero hits. The ads offers something it doesn't deliver - the buyer of said ad (it appears on a wide variety of political web sites) is obviously hoping to sucker Ron Paul supporters and Ron Paul detractors. He fails both groups by failing to delivery on the ads promise.

The site appears to be an attempt to refute Austrian Economics and attempt to disprove Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises work on Austrian Economics.

I imagine it would take a serious investment of time to understand enough of the site to be able to take a position but Mr. Aguilar does have some good writing on the topic of employment via "being your own boss" and even some fiction based on Blackwater USA so your visit doesn't need to be a complete loss.

His comics are worth seeking out and you can even find a link to:
http://www.americascaesar.com/ which mentions Ron Paul in a not unfarvorable fashion.

i don't want to help their numbers.

But could somebody provide the rebuttals to the "7 questions that'll make me squirm"?
You don't even need to provide the questions

Don't assume that the ads suggest support.

The ads mean revenue for Daily Paul. This platform is not free, you know.

I seriously doubt that more than 0.00001% of the people who view the ads change their minds away from support for Ron Paul. And if they do, they were probably weak supporters to begin with...which would be odd for someone who made it to Daily Paul in the first place.

other then gettingrid of google ads.

I say click them, and cost these anti-paul people money, while bringing revenue to the daily paul.

Tracy

I never noticed, my brain automatically filters out internet advertising, much in the same way my thumb changes the channel during commercials all on its own.
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stop typing other candidates names .... google ads are keyword specific....

it crawls the page and then places ads according to words it picked up in the crawl.....

you have no control over them .... you can block some ....but its unreasonable to try and block and check all political ads... ehh it is what it is
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