The Tom Woods Show, episode 1831.

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

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here. The Tom Woods Show.

Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Gene Epstein is back with us today, and we're going to be

talking about an article we'll get into the details in just a minute that just got Gene very

unhappy because if there's one thing that makes Gene unhappy, it's badly researched propagandistic

articles. And boy, oh boy, are there a lot of those in this world? So we're going to be tackling one

of those on the general subject of why the Democrats are allegedly better on the economy.

When there's a Democrat in the White House, the economy seems to do better. We're going to unpack

that. Gene, of course, is formerly economics and book review editor at Barons. He is currently

the director of the Soho Forum, an amazing debate series, and just an all-around great guy.

Gene, welcome back. Tom, it's good to be back. And I'd like to take a senior citizen's prerogative

before we get to the substance of our discussion to front load a couple of plugs just so to make

sure that I don't forget. And so if you allow me, I want to mention that since this is going to be

a podcast and we released on Monday. And so this is a Monday that you're listening to it. And

a week from Thursday that will be February 18th, I'm going to be in the villages Florida

about an hour north of Orlando, about an hour north of Disney World, an hour north of the

Orlando airport. And that will be a debate between John Mackie of Whole Foods and Yaren Brook

of the Yaren Rand Institute. And so I hope you can all meet me down there that will be the first

in-person Soho Forum in nearly a year. And I'm looking forward to it. I know you're not going to

be able to make it, Tom, but you will be there in spirit. And I hope everybody else will be there

physically. And if you're going to drive down, I want to point out that you need to fill the time

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