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Guillermo Barba: The Austrian School & the Global Financial Crisis

Geopolitics & Empire

Geopolitics & Empire

History, News, Government, Politics

4.2568 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmM4Lqqtsg

Guillermo Barba and I discuss the Austrian School of Economics, its presence (or lack theoreof) in México. We also touch briefly on his view of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), his latest interviews with experts such as Jim Rogers and Mish Shedlock, how the coming crisis might affect México and his words of wisdom for the next generation.

About the Guest

Guilerrmo Barba is an Austrian Economist and Mexican journalist. He is the author of the Global Financial Intelligence blog, an expert on the precious metals market and television commentator on “Proyecto 40.”

Guilermo Barba Websites

guillermobarba.com

forbes.com.mx/author/guillermo-barba

twitter.com/memobarba

Related Links

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*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yerma Barba, right? Thank you for joining the podcast here at Guadalajara Geopolitics Institute.

0:13.1

So my goal is basically to share this information with my hundreds of students here at the tech semester after semester,

0:23.6

as well as to promote the excellent analysis from experts like yourself.

0:29.6

Actually, I just looked at your first video blog that you did a few months ago,

0:35.6

and you mentioned how you feel this need as well to share this information with people, correct?

0:42.4

It's correct.

0:44.3

And in the English-speaking world, I've seen you make a few appearances online with Max Kaiser, right, some months ago.

0:52.4

In general.

0:53.3

And so you write for Forbes Mexico and other

0:57.3

papers and you're also a television analyst so can you just briefly tell us a little bit

1:03.8

about your background and your current work okay yes sure yes I am Mexican

1:09.6

economies I studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the UNM.

1:14.6

I am a Mexican economist.

1:16.6

I studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico here in Mexico City.

1:20.6

But I always say that I became an real economist when I first started to study the Austrian School of Economics you know

1:29.3

because at the university I only learned or I did read about Keynes and Marx and that's it

1:38.3

I never heard about Julius Lutheran Mrs. and Rothbard etc and then the Austrian authors so that's a huge problem because I didn't

1:47.3

I didn't learn economics actually I did learn the socialist ideas in my university so I always

1:58.3

say that I became an economist when I graduated from it and

2:02.6

basically I started to start by myself the Austrian thinking the ocean economic school

2:08.6

and so I started to read broad board and started to make Carl Manger and some years ago I

2:16.6

started to read and I became a student of Professor Antal

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