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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1628 Is the Coronavirus a Libertarian Moment?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

News, Government, Politics

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Finance professor Murray Sabrin thinks so. Murray is convinced that libertarians in fact have an excellent opportunity to lay bare the problems with the state.

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1628.

0:03.2

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

0:07.8

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.

0:11.3

The Tom Woods Show.

0:14.4

Both all your friends think they know what went wrong in 2008.

0:17.9

Why there was deregulation and we need more skulls cracked by the state to prevent that kind

0:23.8

of crisis from ever happening again. Well, this is entirely false and you can build up your

0:28.5

ammunition against it by reading my free ebook, the deregulation boogieman, over at regulation myths.com.

0:36.4

Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. We are talking to our old friend, Murray Sabrin. Today, Murray is a

0:41.5

professor of finance at Ramaphog College in New Jersey. And he's been thinking and writing about

0:48.3

government policy and the wake of this virus. And I wanted to talk to him because he thinks this is

0:55.0

potential libertarian moment. I'm not convinced, but I'm always happy to talk to Murray and

1:01.5

have my preconceptions challenged. Murray, welcome back to the show.

1:05.1

Well, thank you, Tom. It's great being with you. Finally, we got some sunshine in New Jersey.

1:10.0

So we're going to get some vitamin D today. Yeah, that'll be nice. That'll be nice. Well, now,

1:14.0

I understand that you are, are you retired from or as of the end of this year, retired from

1:20.4

Ramaphog College? July 1st, I'll be finishing my 35th year and entering my next 35-year career.

1:28.0

All right. Well, I can't wait to see what you get done in the next 35 years, but I'll tell you,

1:32.4

it seems a bit anticlimactic, unfortunately, if you don't have to end like this with the students,

1:38.5

all of a sudden gone and you teaching online. I'll tell you, it was a fairly steep learning curve,

1:44.7

the first week trying to get the handle of on WebEx. I've been using WebEx. It's basically like

1:50.8

being in the classroom, before the students have their WebKims on, you can see them and some of them

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