The Tom Woods Show, episode 12006.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

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10 years since the financial crisis of 2008,

and I wrote a book about that at the time. I wrote it in 2008, and it came out in February 2009,

which is a really, really fast turnaround for a traditional publishing. The book was called Meltdown.

It wound up spending 10 weeks as a New York Times bestseller.

I got a lot of terrific feedback about it.

And I think it's one of the best contributions I've made in the sense that,

even though the book itself doesn't have a lot of original material in it,

I'm very much indebted to Mises and

Rothbard and thinkers who came before me. And I think I've done some things that are more

original, but this was more a matter of it was the right book at the right time, because I knew

there was going to be a really, really confused conventional wisdom at that time that was

going to be telling people that capitalism caused the financial crisis and deregulation

was the problem and stuff like that. And I wanted to head that off at the past, or at the very

least, I wanted there to be some kind of a response, an Austrian school response, not just a generic

free market response either, but a specifically Austrian response that would take aim at central

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