3/7/25 Thomas Eddlem on the Plutocratic War on the American Working Class

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Scott interviews Thomas Eddlem about an article he recently published at the Libertarian Institute about how our economic system is ripping off the American working class. He and Scott dig into how inflation, regulations and programs like Social Security hurt the very people most think the government is around to help. Discussed on the show: “Plutocratic America’s War on the Working Class” (Libertarian Institute) Thomas R. Eddlem is the William Norman Grigg Fellow at the Libertarian Institute, an economist and a freelance writer. He has written three books and holds a masters of applied economics and data scientist certification from Boston College. He lives in Taunton, Massachusetts with his wife Cathy and family. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, you, welcome to the Scott Horton Show.
0:11.6	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of anti-war.com,
0:16.4	and author of Provote, how Washington started the new Cold War with Russia and the catastrophe in Ukraine.
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0:27.4	I've got more than 6,000 interviews in the archive for you there going back to 2003.
0:32.5	And follow me on all the video sites and X at Scott Horton Show.
0:36.9	Hey, you guys on the line, I've got Thomas Edlam.
0:40.5	He is our William Norman Greig Fellow at the Libertarian Institute, and he's an Austrian
0:45.4	school economist, just like our previous guest, Mark Thornton.
0:49.3	Only he's at our Institute, the Libertarian Institute, and he writes lots of really great stuff,
0:55.5	including this one that I really hated in a good way.
0:58.0	You know what I mean?
0:59.4	Plutocratic America's War on the Working Class, rest assured, Tom is not a commie.
1:06.3	But he's got a little bit of class war for us here.
1:08.8	Welcome to show, Tom.
1:09.6	How you do?
1:11.2	I'm doing great, Scott. You know, and that's the thing. Like of class war for us here. Welcome to show. Tom, how you do? I'm doing great, Scott.
1:12.4	You know, and that's the thing.
1:13.6	Like, class war is being waged against regular working Americans.
1:18.3	That's my case in the piece.
1:23.1	And I don't agree with class war, but I think we ought to stop doing the class war, which
1:28.6	is the point of the piece.
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