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

Everybody, welcome back to The Tom Woods Show.

Episode 2402, I'm delighted to be talking to Matthew Lee-Shack, who is the author of the

brand new book Fiat Food, Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It.

That is quite a thesis I've talked to our mutual friend, Safedin Amousse, about this subject

briefly, but now you've really honed in on it in a separate book.

On a topic that I think a lot of people are thinking about more and more as they look around

and they see the obesity problem, they look at the ingredients on the packaging of their,

the things they're buying at the store, they wonder what have these things are.

You know, I think this may be a case where the moment and the book have met.

So, anyway, Matthew, welcome to the show.

Thank you and thank you very much for having me.

Credit to Safedin Amousse, it was the Fiat Standard, a book that he published a few years ago,

that first turned me on to this topic.

There was a chapter in it called Fiat Food and I bought the book to try to understand

better his economics, but what ended up happening to me was I got to the chapter on food

and I thought it was so outlandish that it couldn't possibly be true.

And by nature, I'm an investigative reporter, so for 15 years, my wheelhouse was crime.

And my job was in particular mass shooting, so I would go around the country for the New York Daily News

and try to figure out the motive of why these killers had done the things that they had done,

which took me down a lot of rabbit holes.

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