He is part of the Koch network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center Their money is probably a large rea

He is part of the Koch network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center Their money is probably a large reason his content gets well promoted. The Kochs got into politics in the 1980s because of a series of fights with the EPA whom they thought were getting in the way of their chemical company's right to pollute. If you've ever heard a morality play written about hairdresser licensing and why it means Regulation is Bad - that was them, and it leaks on to hacker news sometimes. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42982578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42982578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31765644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31765644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31382755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31382755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18798111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18798111 They also really like using their money to bludgeon American economics departments into teaching economics the way they "like" it: http://bridgeproject.com/research/koch-impacts-florida/koch-attempts-to-influence-florida-state-university/ http://bridgeproject.com/research/koch-impacts-florida/koch-...