This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, October 12, 2011.

I'm Caleb Brown.

There are parallels to be drawn between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party movement,

even if neither group would like to admit it.

The key difference, however, is who governs after corporatism is destroyed.

Is it civil society or a big, active, and powerful government? Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute, comments.

The Occupy Wall Street story is interesting on many levels, obviously.

One I think is the media story. Now Occupy Wall Street

complained for a long time about not getting enough media, but then when

they got media they got media that wasn't satisfying, probably to them and to others.

And I was particularly interested in one reporter, if you will, who was unsatisfied with the reporting,

went down to Wall Street to look for himself. A guy

named Robert David Graham who writes for a blog called Arrata Security, he's a

Libertarian. He wanted to see what it was all about.

And among other things, he asked the owners of the property

that was occupied.

What do you think about this?

Apparently, no, quote unquote, serious media

had asked about this. His post is thoughtful, careful, and it goes into details that are basically unknown to most people, I suspect, if you've been just reading in the newspapers, reading on the larger blogs.

And I suppose it councils keeping an open mind.

Now, I don't think that Occupy Wall Street is a group that really leans Libertarian, but among the people that are

involved are people who may be interested in libertarian ideas.

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