Ep. 1230 Questions on Economics You're Embarrassed to Ask
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
I've got a bunch of listeners who have some questions on economics that they feel like they should know the answers to, so they feel funny asking. In this episode we take some economics 101 questions and answer them at last.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1230. |
| 0:03.1 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.7 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:30.6 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Before I get into the subject matter for today, I want to mention |
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| 1:33.8 | today, somebody posted on one of my blog posts or maybe it was a podcast episode, something like |
| 1:40.6 | the following. Look, I just don't know very much economics, and I have such |
| 1:45.6 | basic questions. It just goes to show my mind is a tabular rasa when it comes to economics. |
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