Interviews

Interview with Louis Rukeyser

January 24, 2000

Louis Rukeyser Guest Panel and Celebrating The Retirement Letter’s 25th Anniversary Lou and I share a laugh over Elaine Garzarelli’s “bullish indicators” I was a guest panelist on the Louis Rukeyser panel celebrating the 20th anniversary of the InterShow Money Show at Walt Disney World, Florida. The event took place on Saturday evening, February 7, [...]

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Interview with Larry King

January 24, 2000

I spoke at the Gold Show at the Mirage Hotel, where there were 2,000 people in attendance. My workshop was jammed, but the biggest thrill was appearing on “Larry King Live” as the guest interview. At first I was told that CNN’s Larry King was going to interview three experts on the mining industry. I [...]

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Interview with Lady Margaret Thatcher

January 24, 2000

Questions for Margaret Thatcher In May 1996, I was able to meet former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the 50th Anniversary of the Foundation for Economic Education at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. We met with Lady Thatcher at a private reception before the main banquet. She did not seem very animated due to [...]

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Interview with George W. Bush

January 24, 2000

“My father’s decision to raise taxes was wrong. One of my first actions as President will be to cut marginal tax rates!” -Gov. George W. Bush Last month I met with the front-runner of the Republican Presidential nomination, George W. Bush, at the governor’s mansion in Austin, Texas. I spoke with him at length about [...]

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Interview with Friedrich Hayek

January 24, 2000

I had the privilege of meeting Friedrich von Hayek twice. He was a brilliant man. In 1986, Gary North and I met with Hayek in his summer home in the Austrian Alps. We discussed what made “Austrian” economists so different from the rest of the economics profession. He noted that he and Ludwig von Mises, [...]

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Interview with David Rockefeller

January 24, 2000

The purpose of my two-hour, one-on-one interview with David Rockefeller, the former chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and the youngest grandson of oil magnate, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was to learn his assessment of the new global free market economy of the 1990s and beyond. First, Rockefeller said that despite his top-level connections, he had [...]

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