The Tom Woods Show, episode 1299.

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

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slash woods. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. We got a lot to talk about today with David Stockman.

Former director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan was a U.S. Congressman

before that. He's the author of The Great Deformation, The Corruption of Capitalism in America,

a book I cannot recommend to you highly enough. And we've got plenty to talk about today

with the recent passing of George H.W. Bush, but I also want to talk to him about

the thesis of some of his recent articles about the actual source of some of the problems

that middle-class Americans have had. And his argument is that the president and other pundits

have misplaced the source, that they've misidentified the

source of these problems. Now, let me point out a few audio issues today. I'm going to work on,

we're going to see what we can do about David's setup, I think, for next time. You won't have any

trouble understanding him, but I want to get it nice and crisp and

like we're in the same room together. But otherwise, the content, this is going to be great. We've got to

have this conversation. And remember, he also is the publisher over at David Stockman's Contra Corner.

And I've got a nice bonus for you if you join David Stockman's Contra Corner. And I've got a nice bonus for you if you join David Stockman's

Contra Corner through Tom Woods.com slash corner. So listen for that and you'll find out the details about

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