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NOTE An anecdote about Mises

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I've told this story before, but I'm going to tell it again because I think it's classic about Mises.

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People were very intimidated. First of all, half the people didn't know anything, didn't care.

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They had to get their automatic B or A or something.

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The rest of the people, those who were interested, the outside auditors mostly,

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were too intimidated. He's a great man. What do we know? How can we say anything?

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So what he says is, look, say anything you want. Whatever you say, however idiotic it is,

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has already been said before you by some eminent economist, of course he's right, he was right.