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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1056 Walter Block Answers the Hard Libertarian Questions

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Walter Block, who holds an endowed chair in economics at Loyola University, New Orleans, joins me to cover a smorgasbord of topics: reparations, the environment, whether libertarians may use tax-funded services, the reliability of government statistics, fractional-reserve banking, and more.

Show notes for Ep. 1056

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0:00.0

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0:03.4

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0:08.2

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0:34.4

Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:36.0

I am very glad to be playing for you this oldie but

0:40.3

goody that you probably have not heard. This is an interview I did in 2012 with the great

0:46.0

Walter Block, who's been a guest on this show a number of times. Walter, of course, is the great

0:50.2

libertarian economist, libertarian theorist, very prolific. You'll hear the intro a little bit more

0:57.1

about Walter. But I did an interview with him back when I was hosting the old Peter Schiff show,

1:02.1

filling in for Peter. And it's a great little interview where we cover a whole bunch of

1:06.3

interesting, edgy kind of topics. And I thought, what the heck? You know, I'm frantically

1:11.3

running around trying to move my house down the street. So now's a good time to play this for you.

1:16.0

So I hope you enjoy it. Here we go.

1:20.0

And we are back on the Peter Schiff Show. Tom Woods in for Peter.

1:23.5

Joined by Walter Block, Libertarian superstarstar, you guys have been asking for.

1:28.4

Every time I say, who should I have on the program, it's always we've got to have Walter,

1:31.8

and so we have finally made this happen, even though poor Walter is out on the West Coast,

1:35.5

and it's super early for him, so we're very grateful to have him with us.

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