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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2285809, member: 71723&quot;]Ah dear Sean, the ultimate John Birch Society Kool-Aid drinker....</p><p><br /></p><p>Frankly, I&#039;ll take Warren Buffet agreeing with me over Malcolm Forbes&#039; idiot son any day. Truly anyway, if you were a casting agent at Central Casting in LA, and you had the entire nation in your headshot book, and some movie casting director called up and said, &quot;We need a really creepy child molester-looking type of guy&quot;, tell me Steve Forbes wouldn&#039;t be in the top five you&#039;d think of, right?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do not ignore that silver has intrinsic value, I deny it outright. The concept of inherent value is what is nonsense. All elements are finite, and all values of them are subjective and whimsical. One thing makes precious metals rise in price - hype, aka marketing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, there are only a few excuses for being an Austrian Schooler in the face of near unanimous professional disdain for it among mainstream economists.</p><p><br /></p><p>1) German is your primary language you think in, and given that &quot;debt&quot;, &quot;fault&quot; and &quot;shame&quot; all translate to the same German word, and you don&#039;t have the sense that the deity gave a turnip to treat them as mere homonyms rather than synonyms. (This is why &quot;fine&quot; can be a coin&#039;s condition, a monetary legal penalty, and the last word your spouse uses while arguing. Same word, different concepts.)</p><p><br /></p><p>2) You get a perverse glee from being intentionally provocative against overwhelming counter evidence like just another herbalist or homeopath trying to convince some poor cancer patient to turn away from &quot;Big Pharma&quot;. Medicine has enough quacks, we don&#039;t need them in economics. News flash: being down at the skinny end of the bell curve doesn&#039;t make one interesting to talk with at cocktail parties, it makes one a bore, and a boor.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) You may be a SAOSC. Are you a SAOSC? I ask because Austrian School is economics of the SAOSC, by the SAOSC, and for the SAOSC. [SAOSC = smelly angry old self-entitled crank]</p><p><br /></p><p>4) You could be an Internet Gullibility Syndrome sufferer. The Von Mises Institute counts on them, and the death of truth-invested gatekeeing that the publishing function used to provide. Now, any crackpot ideology uses the same fonts and bytes as the truth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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