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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1577 Debate: Should the Fed Be Abolished?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

At FreedomFest 2010, Gene Epstein and I debated Warren Coates and John Fund on whether the Federal Reserve should be abolished. Here is that debate!

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0:00.0

The Tom Wood Show, Episode 1577.

0:03.4

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0:07.9

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0:11.5

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0:14.4

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0:36.4

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:37.5

I don't know why it's taken me so long to do this on the show,

0:41.1

but when I had Mark Scousin on, I don't know, week or so ago,

0:46.1

and we mentioned Freedom Fest,

0:47.8

I mentioned a debate that we had had there

0:50.6

with Gene Epstein and me on one side,

0:53.0

and John Fond of the Wall Street Journal and Warren Coats,

0:56.3

who has many credentials on the other side,

0:58.8

in which we were debating the Federal Reserve.

1:01.3

And this happened 10 years ago in 2010.

1:04.5

And I thought, why have I never played that debate

1:06.5

for the folks here?

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