The Tom Woods Show, episode 1344.

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

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Folks, if you're like me, when you criticize the Federal Reserve, you get all these

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You don't want to go back to the 19th century, do you? All kinds of arguments like that.

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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here.

I am taking so-called President's Day off, more or less, and spending it with the kiddos.

So in this episode, you are going to hear a talk I gave.

Can you believe this all the way back in 2008?

And in that talk, you can hear me refer to a book I'm working on, which becomes meltdown.

So this is a long time ago. And in this talk, I dig out some important people from the 19th century who had important things to say about money and banking in the United States. And what's so amazing about

them is that they sound like proto-Austrians. And these were people writing for the general

public. And it was just obvious to them that certainly the ups and downs of the economy had a

monetary cause. And they were able to pinpoint it. It's very, very interesting material. And as I say,

these are not just obscure people I pulled out of nowhere. These were major, major thinkers who

wrote either major treatises on the subject or they were journalists who reached a broad audience,

but very interesting material. And on the show notes page, I'm linking

to all the works that I refer to in this talk. So that's tomwoods.com slash 1344. So that's what I have

to say to you by way of introduction. And now here we go.

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