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Gene Epstein

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Gene Epstein

@GeneSohoForum

Director and Moderator of @TheSohoForum, presented by @Reason. Former Economics & Books Editor at Barron's.

Manhattan, NY

Joined December 2017

Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Jun 1, 2022
Witty, don'tcha think?
Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Mar 5, 2022
Those who reverently use the word "democracy" should use the far more accurate term "majoritarianism." Advocates of "democracy" are basically arguing for rule by the majority--51% over the rights of the other 49%. Democracy then becomes a system to be avoided whenever possible.
Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Jun 25, 2020
My favorite quote from George Orwell, born 117 years ago today: "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them; no ordinary man could be such a fool."
Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Apr 29, 2019
Bernie, please lead by example and start by giving back that pile of $ you made from those books to the average workers who shipped & sold those books at Amazon & Barnes & Noble.
Sen. Bernie Sanders
@SenSanders
Apr 29, 2019
What would be truly heroic is if Disney used its profits from Avengers to pay all of its workers a middle class wage, instead of paying its CEO Bob Iger $65.6 million – over 1,400 times as much as the average worker at Disney makes. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Mar 28, 2022
Replying to @RBReich
1)Thomas Sowell: "Despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws & 'war on poverty' of the 1960s, the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87% in 1940 to 47% by 1960--before any of those programs began." 1/2
Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Jun 18, 2025
To @benshapiro, my debate society (monthly debates since Sept 2016, all on YouTube & podcast) thesohoforum.org would be honored to host a debate between you & @ComicDaveSmith. We pay our debaters generous fees + expenses. Write me at [email protected] for details.
Brian Nichols
@BNicholsLiberty
Jun 17, 2025
Congratulations, @ComicDaveSmith! @benshapiro actually said your name on his show today! Now, the big question... Does he have the stones to debate you?
Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Oct 14, 2021
Replying to @profwolff
Profit does indeed drive capitalists to raise prices; it also drives them to cut prices--key to the success of capitalist profiteers like discounters Sam Walton & Jeff Bezos. The 10-year annualized increase in consumer goods prices through August 2021 has been zero (chart).
Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Jul 4, 2025
Yes, I'm a proud member of The Masses for Massie!
Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅
@ProudElephant
Jul 2, 2025
Do you support Congressman Thomas Massie?
Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Dec 23, 2024
Replying to @OsterhoudtJohn @DavidFite and 2 others
Dave & Ben, happy to host this debate at thesohoforum.org. Debaters get a great deal of time to express their views in front of a live audience, w/moderator mainly facilitating the proceedings. & a specifically worded debate resolution that both sides agree to. Write me.
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Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Sep 29, 2020
Ludwig von Mises, b. 139 yrs ago today (in the palindromic year 1881), fled Hitler to come to the US & set up his seminar at NYU, which instructed Murry Rothbard, whose writings instructed me in free-market Austrian economics. So Happy Birthday to my intellectual grandfather!
Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Mar 29, 2023
If women are paid 22% less than men for the same work, then simple math shows that an employer can afford to hire 13 women for practically the same cost of hiring 10 men. W/that huge competitive advantage, even the worst male chauvinists might be reluctant to hire any men at all!
Economic Policy Institute
@EconomicPolicy
Mar 29, 2023
Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average. How can we solve pay equity? We need policies that lift wages for most workers while also reducing gender and racial/ethnic pay gaps. epi.org/blog/gender-wa…
Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Jun 30, 2024
Probably my favorite quote from Thomas Sowell, b. 94 yrs ago today: “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Oct 6, 2025
By @TheMilkBarTV & @coldxman own admission, half the plans on this list for regime change were followed through on--& right now Iran, also on the list, is being targeted. Yet amazingly, they dismiss the plans cited by Wesley Clark as irrelevant. Talk about dwelling on Cloud Nine!
Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV)
@TheMilkBarTV
Oct 6, 2025
.@ComicDaveSmith has repeatedly claimed on some of the biggest podcasts that: “four-star General Wesley Clark saw plans in 2001 for America to overthrow 7 countries in 5 years,” and that “there’s one to go: Iran.” EXCEPT, as @coldxman brilliantly showed in their debate: -Clark
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Gene Epstein
@GeneSohoForum
Jul 22, 2024
Loaded into an ambulance this past Friday after surgery on a broken ankle bone (& about to turn 80 this November), I accept the tribute of a grateful nation by declaring that I won't accept the Democratic nomination for Prexy (but will still operate my Soho Forum)!