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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1825 The Reddit/GameStop Phenomenon

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Economist Bob Murphy joins me to discuss what's been going on with hedge funds, Reddit, and GameStop stock.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Tom Wood Show Episode 1825.

0:03.4

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

0:08.0

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.

0:11.5

The Tom Wood Show.

0:13.5

Hey everybody, I've had a lot of people say that I've been keeping them sane

0:18.0

with my commentary through my email newsletter about what's really going on with the virus.

0:22.2

Well, if you want to know the people who keep me sane and the resources I use to find out the

0:26.6

stuff I find out, well, I made you a list of those resources and you can grab it over at

0:31.9

tomwoods.com slash corona.

0:35.1

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here talking about this GameStop stock and Reddit and hedge fund issue

0:40.9

today felt like we just couldn't let this one pass us by because absolutely everybody is talking

0:47.1

about it. So I called up my old friend Bob Murphy and if you're a long time listener of the Tom

0:51.6

Wood Show or you've had anything to do with the libertarian world or Austrian economics,

0:56.8

you surely know Bob Murphy, one of the great economists we have today. He holds his PhD

1:03.1

from New York University. He's the host of the Bob Murphy Show over at bobmerfyshow.com,

1:07.2

author of many books, including the politically incorrect guide to capitalism and choice,

1:12.4

cooperation, enterprise and human action, which is a great distillation of Austrian economics.

1:18.7

So much great stuff has been produced by Bob over the years and of course he and I used to

1:22.7

collaborate on the ContraCrucman podcast, may it rest in peace. Bob, welcome back. Thanks for

1:28.8

having me. Now that you have the Bob Murphy Show and we don't do ContraCrucman anymore, I don't

1:33.2

know, I don't get to talk to Bob Murphy all that much until I more or less badger him. I didn't

1:38.1

really have to badger you. I just asked sheepishly, could you come on and help talk about this topic.

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