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17 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read

Ages ago I replied to a tweet with some duff info about the Mont Pelerin Society, which I quickly deleted.

This person from the weirdo CATO institute dug up a screenshot of the deleted tweet & tweeted it out - I assume because I'm very critical of the Koch-funded CATO Institute.

This is the deleted tweet he's obsessed with - which was, as I say, duff information - & he's now smearing me by making spurious claims about the tweet.

It was seen by just TWO people before it was deleted (not sure what the foreign language is at the bottom).

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1430801828573233152

This is the thread that seems to have so rattled him (or perhaps his bosses at the CATO Institute).

The exchange that upset him is at the end.

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1430801828573233152

The bloke works for the Cato Institute - an American libertarian think tank founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles #Koch, of Koch Industries.

I think he's trying to smear me for one duff tweet. Which is fine. It suggests to me that he's/they're rattled.

Selgin is considered a Bitcoin OG ("Original Gangsta") & a founder of the Hyek inspired Modern Free Banking School, & sees financial crises & business cycles as largely attributable to "misguided government interference with freely-evolved & competitive monetary arrangements".

He does seem a little overly sensitive, & more than a little tetchy - here's an article of his slagging off the the late great David Graeber.

I suppose I should be flattered by the attention of a US based CATO economist (but actually, it's a bit creepy).

alt-m.org/2016/03/24/gra…

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