Jeffrey Tucker and Laissez Faire

[Laura]

Ya'll give this a watch and then share feedback:

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[Ronnie]

Feedback?..... Well, I'd say Jeffery Tucker is an Expert on Everything! This ain't his first rodeo......

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[Scottie]

Ya'll give this a watch and then share feedback:

http://research.lfb.org/research/video/lfl_2steps_0414?code=PLFLQ605&n=LFL_2stepsc_0514&ver=3

After 10 minutes of listening to him drone on and on, promising to reveal his "Important Tips" but never actually doing so, I closed the window. America's attention span is nowhere near long enough. He certainly mentions many interesting bits and bobs, but I think his goal is more along the lines of getting people to pay the $199 annual fee to join his club. If you do, you'll get access to 66 free books (a value of $594)!!

I am underwhelmed. If it had just been more informative instead of being one of those "suck you in" type marketing videos, then I would be happy. Of course, the "suck you in" techniques would be great to use along with the presentation of actual useful info.

In short, we could do a much better job!

 

[Echo Blue]

People have sent me these types of links before. I've only listened to a couple of adverts like this all the way through. It always leads to the same ending: we'll share our secrets for a price. The secrets could be for wealth or health. So I was glad this one had a link to read through and not just the option of listening to the 'very nice voice' talk on and on.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd just let this one go.

 

[Echo Blue]

Ya'll give this a watch and then share feedback:

http://research.lfb.org/research/video/lfl_2steps_0414?code=PLFLQ605&n=LFL_2stepsc_0514&ver=3

After 10 minutes of listening to him drone on and on, promising to reveal his "Important Tips" but never actually doing so, I closed the window. America's attention span is nowhere near long enough. He certainly mentions many interesting bits and bobs, but I think his goal is more along the lines of getting people to pay the $199 annual fee to join his club. If you do, you'll get access to 66 free books (a value of $594)!!

I am underwhelmed. If it had just been more informative instead of being one of those "suck you in" type marketing videos, then I would be happy. Of course, the "suck you in" techniques would be great to use along with the presentation of actual useful info.

In short, we could do a much better job!

Yes, I totally agree with Mr. Scott!!!

 

[Zadius Sky]

I agree with Mr. Scott. I stopped after 20 minutes - it dragged on.

 

[rymw]

Couldn't get the video to play even after trying a few browsers but after reading Mr Scot's and Bayou Blue's remarks maybe it's just as well, LOL.

 

[Tomiro]

Ya'll give this a watch and then share feedback:

http://research.lfb.org/research/video/lfl_2steps_0414?code=PLFLQ605&n=LFL_2stepsc_0514&ver=3

After 10 minutes of listening to him drone on and on, promising to reveal his "Important Tips" but never actually doing so, I closed the window. America's attention span is nowhere near long enough. He certainly mentions many interesting bits and bobs, but I think his goal is more along the lines of getting people to pay the $199 annual fee to join his club. If you do, you'll get access to 66 free books (a value of $594)!!

I am underwhelmed. If it had just been more informative instead of being one of those "suck you in" type marketing videos, then I would be happy. Of course, the "suck you in" techniques would be great to use along with the presentation of actual useful info.

In short, we could do a much better job!

I agree. He does take his sweet time to get to the important stuff.. that he's just about to tell us... but then keep repeating over again the same points that he brought up previously on why we should listen to him and prepare. Maybe this sort of marketing appeals to some people, but I was also left feeling quite underwhelmed. After some 30 minutes, I finally learned that the "one most important food item" that I should buy from the store, not to raise suspicion was canned soup.

[edit: looks like the thread has moved. Maybe someone can move this to the correct place]

 

[Laura]

Okay, I split it off and gave it its own thread.

 

[H-KQGE]

I had a serious case of deja vu watching this... after several minutes I had to skip forward to see the #1 most important thing I needed to survive. And then I skipped forward some more as the sense of deja vu grew. In the end, I just read the transcript (amazingly faster than watching the video - what was the point? That Wal-Mart clip?) and learned that it was canned soup that I needed the most. Hasn't the forum had better info for like, ages on these things? And with real in-depth practical advice and conversation to boot. Like Mr Scott said, America and their attention span... it ain't happening dude!

 

[LQB]

Ya'll give this a watch and then share feedback:

http://research.lfb.org/research/video/lfl_2steps_0414?code=PLFLQ605&n=LFL_2stepsc_0514&ver=3

After 10 minutes of listening to him drone on and on, promising to reveal his "Important Tips" but never actually doing so, I closed the window. America's attention span is nowhere near long enough. He certainly mentions many interesting bits and bobs, but I think his goal is more along the lines of getting people to pay the $199 annual fee to join his club. If you do, you'll get access to 66 free books (a value of $594)!!

I am underwhelmed. If it had just been more informative instead of being one of those "suck you in" type marketing videos, then I would be happy. Of course, the "suck you in" techniques would be great to use along with the presentation of actual useful info.

In short, we could do a much better job!

I agree. He does take his sweet time to get to the important stuff.. that he's just about to tell us... but then keep repeating over again the same points that he brought up previously on why we should listen to him and prepare. Maybe this sort of marketing appeals to some people, but I was also left feeling quite underwhelmed. After some 30 minutes, I finally learned that the "one most important food item" that I should buy from the store, not to raise suspicion was canned soup.

[edit: looks like the thread has moved. Maybe someone can move this to the correct place]

Same here. There is another tell-tale problem that crops up in many offers like this: "The infallible investment strategy to protect your wealth". These statements usually come with supporting data like: "for the past 40 years ..." The problem is that the massiveness of what is coming has no historical precedent, so, what has worked for "40 years" is least likely to work when the system completely caves in. No doubt he has some good ideas, but it is a blatant sales pitch. I'm quite sure that his claims about how to avoid NSA eyes are wrong and will likely result in more attention (not less).

 

[Laura]

I watched through to the canned soup business and the pitch to sell and stopped there myself.

What I did think was interesting was his take on the way the economy will collapse and comparing it to what happened in Argentina.

But, that's just one aspect of what is going on; he gives no time or attention to ever-increasing geological/atmospheric events; he doesn't consider what might happen if the US IS attacked on its own shores. Lord knows, it's done enough to attract that sort of thing.

I didn't like his tone of denigration in respect of poor people - the 50% of Americans living on "govt. handouts." Well, there's a reason why people have to live on welfare, and I speak as a former welfare worker! It was my job to listen to the stories and determine eligibility. I concluded after thousands and thousands of case that "life in the US is not what it is presented to be."

Anyway, that aside, what is his "magic investing strategy"? I wonder if he expects it to make money through a super-volcano?

As for the soup, no thanks. Anybody eating canned soup is painting a plague target on their heads.

 

[angelburst29]

Jeffrey Tucker's sale's pitch, might be due to his employment with Agora Financial, who acquired Laissez Faire Books in 2011.

Jeffrey Tucker Named Executive Editor of Laissez Faire Books
_http://newsroom.agorafinancial.com/tucker-laissez-faire-books/

November 22, 2011 - Baltimore, MD – Addison Wiggin, executive publisher of Agora Financial, announced that effective immediately, Jeffrey Tucker has joined the company and will serve as executive editor of recently-acquired Laissez Faire Books.

Jeffrey Tucker is the author of several books including Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo (2010), and It’s a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes, published earlier this year. He joins Agora Financial after serving as the editorial vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. While there, he worked with Agora Financial in co-publishing the second edition of Ron Paul’s The Case for Gold: A Minority Report of the U.S. Gold Commission.

“Jeffrey is an innovative thinker and a recognized leader in the libertarian community,” said Wiggin. “We’ve already received a boost by the enthusiasm, ideas and relationships he brings to the project. We expect Jeffrey will help Laissez Faire Books evolve in the digital age and build upon the firm’s legacy of publishing fresh ideas and introducing new influential thinkers during, this, an increasingly critical time.”

“It was an historic event that Agora Financial acquired Laissez Faire10.

Books,” said Tucker. “Laissez Faire has always been about promoting commerce. Now the institution itself has become a commercial venture. This gives us a great incentive to do the best possible job, the incentive to find authors who write great books and publish them in a way that gives maximum exposure. This aspect of things I am very excited about.”

“With 1972 and the founding of Laissez Faire Books, suddenly ideas could reach a multitude of people,” said Tucker. “Now ideas can be universalized. Anybody can learn from the great thinkers. That wasn’t true before. LFB played a very important role both as a publisher and as a distributor of big ideas.”

He added: “You could almost date the founding of what we call the Libertarian Movement with the founding of Laissez Faire Books.”

Books,” said Tucker. “Laissez Faire has always been about promoting commerce. Now the institution itself has become a commercial venture. This gives us a great incentive to do the best possible job, the incentive to find authors who write great books and publish them in a way that gives maximum exposure. This aspect of things I am very excited about.”

“With 1972 and the founding of Laissez Faire Books, suddenly ideas could reach a multitude of people,” said Tucker. “Now ideas can be universalized. Anybody can learn from the great thinkers. That wasn’t true before. LFB played a very important role both as a publisher and as a distributor of big ideas.”

He added: “You could almost date the founding of what we call the Libertarian Movement with the founding of Laissez Faire Books.”

Laissez Faire Books was founded in New York’s Greenwich Village, and quickly earned the reputation as a leading voice in the libertarian community, often cited as carrying more printed materials on classical economics and individual liberty than any other bookstore. By the mid-1990s, the company had an established customer list and revenues exceeded a million dollars. However, the rise of the internet made profitability difficult and the bookstore’s ownership and location changed multiple times.

Agora Financial announced the acquisition of Laissez Faire Books in early 2011 and will re-launch under Tucker’s direction in time for the holidays. Tucker filmed an introductory video for Agora Financial’s subscribers, giving a picture of Laissez Faire Books’ future.

Through award-winning investment newsletters, international best-selling books and critically acclaimed feature documentaries, Agora Financial Provides candid and unbiased commentary and analysis on daily economic tipping points. Agora is a privately-held publishing company headquartered in the historic Mount Vernon district of Baltimore. For more information, please visit www.agorafinancial.com and www.lfb.org.


Jeffrey Tucker, CLO Liberty.me, executive editor of Laissez-Faire, distinguished fellow FEE, research fellow Acton Institute
_https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker


Describing himself as a "dedicated anarchist", Tucker has authored numerous articles (many of which published on the aforementioned websites) and three books on topics such as libertarian anarchism, capitalism, Austrian economics, and alternative currencies, especially Bitcoin and its competing variants. Tucker was editor of Mises.org from 1997 until late 2011 when he was hired by Addison Wiggin as executive editor of Laissez Faire Books. He is now CEO of Liberty.me.

In an interview with Reason, Timothy Virkkala, former managing editor of the libertarian magazine Liberty, alleged that Tucker played a role in the production of racially charged newsletters written on behalf of Ron Paul. By Virkkala's account, Tucker was an "assistant, [and] probably a writer" who assisted "editor and chief writer" Lew Rockwell in creating the newsletters. Eric Dondero, who served as (election) campaign coordinator and senior aide to Ron Paul in the mid to late 1990s, told the American Spectator that "Lew Rockwell and Jeff Tucker wrote the newsletters." According to reporting by Economist, "numerous veterans" of the libertarian movement said it was an "open secret" throughout the late 80s and early 90s that Tucker and Rockwell ghost wrote the newsletters.
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[Renaissance]

It was a little difficult to get through the sales pitch and the endless 'I'm going to give you the one or two secrets that will...". I didn't make it through to the end, but I did watch most of it. I agree with Mr. Scott's suggestion that the group could do something much better.

He does seem to touch on useful principles (that there's not going to be a complete end of civilization and that there will be phases of a collapse) but I think he minimizes the impact and doesn't go into major issues like earth changes like Laura mentioned, which will make the phases he speaks of much worse than he describes.

The phases he talks about are a temporary period of panic and chaos at society breaks down and then the re-establishment of a new economy. The first phase probably won't be exactly as he describes. In the book, "The Unthinkable: Who Survives When disaster Strikes" the author Amanda Ripley disabuses the notion that people respond in complete panic/ chaos during a disaster. In many of the cases she describes, people are actually too calm (normalcy bias) or they completely shut down. That's not to say there is no possibility for situations that produce panic. She brings up a couple of scenarios that create panic, like when too many people are in a confined area and certain factors are met (I can't think off the top of my head what those things are). We could probably expect some of these types of situations at localized levels - like at grocery stores when people are trying to get any remaining food. The temporariness of this phase may be a bit longer than this guy thinks too.

I think a new economy will be tough to re-establish because Americans in particular have been taught to be completely reliant the government, corporations, technology, doctors, etc to meet every single one of their basic needs. I don't know if there's ever been a society in known history that is so inadequately prepared with basic knowledge of how to meet our own basic needs than in America (and most Western societies) right now. There may be many attempts at 're-establishment' via whatever governmental bodies doing whatever they can to hold on, but with so many severe potentials heading our way, you have to wonder how successful such attempts will be. Just to speculate: pretty much everyone will be dependent on government rations for food, that is if such bodies are even operational. If they are operational, the amount of need will be too much, and such systems would probably collapse too.

That would leave people themselves to form new ways of doing things, but this will take a lot of time too (and a lot of gnashing of teeth) since people just don't really know how to take care of themselves, nor how to do it together.

So, what Laura talked about in yesterday's SOTT Talk Radio show regarding the Roman collapse and how those who knew how to survive went on to establish Christianity seems pretty darn important!

 

[herondancer]

I watched it all the way through to the end where the pitch for the book/newsletter subscription came. It followed the pattern of alternate fear-stoking, and ego stoking ("you can be the hero for your family") and information tease that is pretty typical of these promotions.

Of course there is the cosmic factor, in that things will not go on as they did in Argentina (his example of a country suffering a short sharp collapse, with a societal reorganization following). A lot of the strategies of "wealth preservation" he's promising are sure to be predicated on the US eventually finding some sort of equilibrium at a lower level than now. Maybe that will be so for a while. Could a monetary collapse be the 'blow' the beast receives which it then survives to the amazement of the world? At least until the Cosmos takes a hand.