Nice piece. I have personal experience with regard to minimum wage. A storeowner friend of mine in a poor neighborhood wanted to hire a young person of a welfare family to work in his store to take care of deposit bottles and could not afford to pay minimum wage. This occurred about twenty years ago, since then bottle recycling has become a taxpayer-funded project for many local governments. We lose twice.
Yes, I agree the interviewer interrupted to many times, but he did a great job as a devil's advocate. He asked the questions we all need to be prepared for when confronting people who have very little economic knowledge. Great job Sheldon!!
I agree with hatchcar. I thought the host did a rather good job. Critics will say that the host will obviously play "softball" because he's at a sympathetic institution. The devil's advocate thing was a good idea, even a somewhat belligerent d.a.
I thought you should know that you have done a marvelous job in the interview. Caldara did do nicely as a playing-devil's-advocate host, but I admit he did interrupt quite a few times and that was somewhat unnerving.
Other than that, you did great as far as I'm concerned.
I thought you should know that I YouTubed your interview in 3 parts:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1MLkSo608
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMpij004nVY
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vE7r6SHoLM
I even blogged about it on my blog Let Liberty Ring (you're on my BlogRoll as a matter of fact): http://letlibertyring.blogspot.com/2008/03/sheldon-richman-interviewed-on.html
I thought you should know, and I hope it's ok with you that I YouTubed it as well. :)
You were great, Sheldon, but Caldara is a poor host and interviewer: he talks too much and interrupts too much.
ReplyDeleteNice piece. I have personal experience with regard to minimum wage. A storeowner friend of mine in a poor neighborhood wanted to hire a young person of a welfare family to work in his store to take care of deposit bottles and could not afford to pay minimum wage. This occurred about twenty years ago, since then bottle recycling has become a taxpayer-funded project for many local governments. We lose twice.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree the interviewer interrupted to many times, but he did a great job as a devil's advocate. He asked the questions we all need to be prepared for when confronting people who have very little economic knowledge. Great job Sheldon!!
ReplyDeleteThe amazing thing about this video is that I was sick as hell at time. I can't believe I got through it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with hatchcar. I thought the host did a rather good job. Critics will say that the host will obviously play "softball" because he's at a sympathetic institution. The devil's advocate thing was a good idea, even a somewhat belligerent d.a.
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I liked the devil's-advocate parts. Caldara is a good guy.
ReplyDeleteSheldon,
ReplyDeleteI thought you should know that you have done a marvelous job in the interview. Caldara did do nicely as a playing-devil's-advocate host, but I admit he did interrupt quite a few times and that was somewhat unnerving.
Other than that, you did great as far as I'm concerned.
I thought you should know that I YouTubed your interview in 3 parts:
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1MLkSo608
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMpij004nVY
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vE7r6SHoLM
I even blogged about it on my blog Let Liberty Ring (you're on my BlogRoll as a matter of fact):
http://letlibertyring.blogspot.com/2008/03/sheldon-richman-interviewed-on.html
I thought you should know, and I hope it's ok with you that I YouTubed it as well. :)
Thanks, Todd.
ReplyDeleteNo problem, Sheldon. Anytime. :)
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