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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2664 Why Bother Worrying About the Debt?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Economist Bob Murphy joins us to discuss the issue nobody seems to care about anymore, and explains why we should.

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Guest's Websites:
Infineo: infineo.ai 
Bob Murphy Show: BobMurphyShow.com 

Guest's Twitter: @BobMurphyEcon

Show notes for Ep. 2664

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0:00.0

Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know.

0:08.8

You're listening to The Tom Woods Show.

0:18.6

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. It's episode 2664 of the Tom Woods show. And we have with us our old friend Bob Murphy, host of the Bob Murphy Show. He holds a PhD in economics from NYU, a fact that I was reminded of a great many times as co-host of the former podcast, May it Rest in Peace, Contra Krugman.

0:39.3

Bob is the author of many books.

0:41.6

In fact, here's one.

0:43.3

Now, I did this last time.

0:44.6

Right.

0:45.7

But if Ludwig von Mises is too intimidating for you to get through human action,

0:49.7

you read Choice by Bob Murphy, and in particular,

0:52.8

and Bob has a way of taking that material and using

0:57.4

clear language and analogies for the, you know, the reasonably educated non-expert.

1:04.2

And what's interesting about this book is that, let's see if I, yeah, is that when you

1:09.4

open it up. What's great is I have no idea what you're going to say.

1:12.3

What is interesting about this?

1:13.2

Yeah, I know. Well, hear what I'm going to say.

1:14.4

The number of, if you're watching on the screen, the testimonials take up page after page after page.

1:20.6

What's incredible about this, look, there's more, like two more facing pages of testimonials.

1:26.2

Look at this. It keeps going. And what's even,

1:29.3

so like in other words, what choice have you got but to go get choice basically? Right, right.

1:33.8

And I might add that some of the people endorsing that book can't stand each other, you know,

1:38.2

half these people are not on speaking terms with the other half, but they all agree Bob Murphy's

1:42.6

book is worth reading. So, I wonder when I saw

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