The Tom Wood Show, episode 1653, prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

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Folks, all your friends think they know what went wrong in 2008. Why there was deregulation

and we need more skulls cracked by the state to prevent that kind of crisis from ever happening again.

Well, this is entirely false and you can build up your ammunition against it by reading my free ebook,

the deregulation boogieman, over at regulationmiths.com.

Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. Jeff Herbner's back with us. Jeff is the chairman of the Department

of Economics at Grove City College, which by the way houses the papers of Ludwig von Mises

and hosts the annual Austrian student scholars conference, which by the way gives away cash

prizes to the top three papers. And they are indeed called the Thomas E. Woods prizes.

I don't know what to tell you, but that is exactly what they're called. Anyway,

let's get back to our topic. Jeff Herbner has created a brand new course for us at LibertyClassroom.com.

And this is a course on American economic history that's going to take us through about 1860 through

1921. So 1861, let's say to 1921, a lot of great topics contained in there. And I thought it would be

a good time just to give a quick bird's eye overview of the sorts of themes that are raised there

because there are a lot of mistakes people make in American economic history, as you know, in the

textbook treatment and in classrooms. And then they take those mistakes and they use them to justify

terrible policy positions today. So we want to get things right. So we're going to talk to Jeff

about his course. You can get all our courses over at LibertyClassroom.com. Jeff, welcome back.

Thanks, Don. Thanks for having me on. Thanks for doing this course. I've just told people about it.

So we're basically going from the Civil War or whatever you want to call it up through about 1921.

There's a lot of stuff to cover in that period. And yet I think some people will be dying for

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