Me, Bernie, and Minimum Wage

Walter Block at 2016 Mises Circle in Seattle

Tags: Interventionism, Free Markets

05/25/2016 Walter Block

Dr. Walter Block, a childhood classmate of Bernie Sanders, dissects one of the sacred cows of Seattle’s latte-Left: minimum wage laws.

Recorded at Contra Krugman: Demolishing the Economic Myths of the 2016 Election: the Mises Circle at Seattle’s historic Town Hall, on 21 May 2016.

Special thanks to the Harvey Allison family for making this event possible.

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