Ep. 1785 Debate: David Stockman v. Walter Block on Libertarian Electoral Strategy

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

David Stockman, who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, strongly opposed the re-election of Donald Trump -- not on NeverTrump grounds, but because Stockman favors sound money and fiscal rectitude. Walter Block, probably the most prolific academic libertarian in the world, thinks Trump needs to be compared to the likely alternative. Today they hash it out.

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, episode 1785.
0:03.4	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.9	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.5	The Tom Wood Show.
0:13.4	Folks, if you're like me, when you criticize the Federal Reserve,
0:17.0	you get all these lackey-style responses.
0:20.1	Why the Fed has made the economy more stable?
0:22.7	You don't want to go back to the 19th century, do you?
0:25.4	All kinds of arguments like that.
0:27.0	Well, you can blow those and others out of the water with my free ebook,
0:31.2	Our Enemy, the Fed.
0:33.0	Grab it at ouranemythefed.com.
0:36.7	Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
0:38.1	Tom Woods here, debate episode for you two days in a row.
0:42.8	This time, it's David Stockman, former director of the Office of Management and Budget.
0:48.3	That was under Ronald Reagan, also US Congressman, author, investment banker,
0:54.0	and Walter Block, who is a professor of economics at Loyola University in New Orleans.
0:59.8	He's the author of the well-known book, Defending the Undefendable.
1:04.1	But many other books and hundreds and hundreds of peer-reviewed articles are out there.
1:10.1	You can check out at WalterBlock.com.
1:13.4	This is not going to be a formal debate, really.
1:16.7	But we just want to discuss something that David wrote.
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