Can a talk about economics be entertaining? Can a talk about the current economic mess and the insanities of governments make you smile?

When it's Peter Schiff giving the talk the answer is most certainly yes.

Unfortunately it isn't embodied nor embraced by the current Conservative Party. Here is a short speech by Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance. Sean is a prolific writer on what is wrong with the UK and he writes well. You will find some of his writings on the linked website.

I used to think so. All those graphs and formulae. But that isn't real economics which enables us to understand how the world works and why we have most of the problems we have.

Lew Rockwell explains it very well here and links to some classic writing by Mises that needs to be promoted to all inteligent people.

I came across this quote today. It was made in the diary of a colonal who was one of the first to liberate a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.

“It took a little time to get used to seeing men, women, and children collapse as you walked by them and to restrain oneself from going to their assistance. One had to get used early to the idea that the individual just did not count. It was shortly after the British Red Cross arrived, though it may have no connection, that a very large quantity of lipstick arrived.  This was not at all what we men wanted, we were screaming for hundreds and thousands of other things: food and medical equipment, and I don’t know who asked for lipstick. I wish so much that I could discover who did it; it was the action of genius, sheer unadulterated brilliance. I believe nothing did more for those internees than the lipstick. Women lay in bed with no sheets and no nightie but with scarlet red lips, you saw them wandering about with nothing but a blanket over their shoulders, but with scarlet red lips. I saw a woman dead on the post mortem table and clutched in her hand was a piece of lipstick. At last someone had done something to make them individuals again, they were someone, no longer merely the number tattooed on the arm. At last they could take an interest in their appearance. That lipstick started to give them back their humanity.”