Ep. 2558 The Regime Lies to You About Recessions
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Meltdown, my New York Times bestseller on the 2008 financial crisis, turns 15 this year. There is a slight chance the world has not studied it enough. Keith Knight and I discuss the myths and realities of what the SOBs did to us.
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Book Discussed: Meltdown: The Classic Free Market Analysis of the 2008 Financial Crisis
Guest's Website: The Libertarian Institute
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Guest's Podcast: Don't Tread on Anyone
Guest's Book:
Domestic Imperialism: 9 Reasons I Left Progressivism
Guest's Twitter: @an_capitalist
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| 0:00.0 | Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the |
| 0:06.7 | elites don't want you to know. You're listening to the Tom Woods Show. Show. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:17.0 | It's episode 2,558 of the Tom Woods show and we have the distinct pleasure |
| 0:26.0 | of being joined once again by the great Keith Knight. Keith Knight, long after all |
| 0:30.6 | Woods is dead and buried Keith Knight is going to be holding this cause, |
| 0:35.0 | the flame of this cause aloft for all of you. |
| 0:38.2 | He is managing editor at the Libertarian Institute. |
| 0:41.9 | He's the author of Domestic imperialism. Is it nine reasons I left |
| 0:46.2 | progressives? Yes, sir. All right. And I'm sorry, that was unnecessarily morbid, my |
| 0:51.9 | introduction of you, but welcome all the same. |
| 0:54.3 | Keith Knight. |
| 0:55.3 | Tom, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:57.3 | Well, I don't know if I would say you're doing me a favor, but you're doing something kind of |
| 1:00.8 | interesting today. |
| 1:02.0 | We've done this before. |
| 1:03.7 | This year, it turns out, is the anniversary year for two of my books. |
| 1:08.6 | So we did a 20-year retrospective on the politically incorrect guide to American history, |
| 1:14.0 | Keith and I did. And Keith reminded me at the Mises Institute |
| 1:17.8 | supporter summit over the weekend in Hilton Head, that it's the 15th anniversary of Meltdown, my book on the financial crisis, |
| 1:25.8 | and I am just sick and tired of all these anniversaries because it makes me feel old. |
| 1:30.1 | But you know what, I'm going to get a visual aid to reward those of you watching on video so hang on |
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