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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 271 The Truth about the Crash of '08

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Tom shares a talk he delivered at -- of all places -- the University of Colorado at Boulder, on the real causes of the housing bubble and crash. Check out Meltdown, Tom's New York Times bestseller on that subject, featuring a foreword by Ron Paul.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits.

0:05.1

Now's not that time.

0:06.4

And Republicans.

0:07.9

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

0:12.2

You need a voice of liberty.

0:15.0

Look no further.

0:16.7

You've found it.

0:18.5

Tom Woods.

0:21.2

Beware, citizen.

0:22.9

You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

0:26.9

The Tom Woods Show.

0:33.8

Welcome, everybody.

0:34.8

It's Friday, October 24th, 2014.

0:55.6

Heading out the door for the Idaho Liberty Expo, which I'll be keynoting tomorrow night in Boise. And I had intended to do one of my Q&A episodes today, taking some of your questions and answering them. And I just don't think I can make it work, unfortunately. I'm just racing around a little bit too much, and I'll try to be a better planner. I'll plan ahead

1:00.0

better with the episodes. I'm sorry about that. But what I do have to share with you is something

1:05.3

that means quite a bit to me, actually. And that is a little talk that I gave all the way back in 2009 at the University

1:14.4

of Colorado at Boulder. Now, I apparently was the only person on earth who didn't know

1:19.7

that the University of Colorado at Boulder is known for being a left-leaning institution. I didn't

1:25.2

know that until I got there and people told me. Well,

1:29.3

this thing had disaster written all over it. It was an event held on a Friday night. It's a long story.

1:35.3

I was in town to do an event on a Saturday about an hour and a half away, and the organizers thought,

1:39.3

well, why don't we have you come to our university the night before? That's why we did it on a Friday night,

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