Ep. 344 Why Economic Freedom? Here’s Why
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2015
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Here’s a basic overview of the economic and moral imperatives behind the free market. I think it’s pretty convincing, but then since I’m the speaker, I suppose I would. (No YouTube versions of the episodes from yesterday through Monday, since it would be redundant to create them.)
Organizer of This Event
Saint Charles County Liberty Project
Video of This Event
Why Economic Freedom? Here’s Why
Essay Mentioned
“Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth,” by Ludwig von Mises
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.2 | 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. |
| 0:16.8 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.3 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 344. Well, I'm still out of town, as I told you guys yesterday, I'll be out of town for several days, but I have left you with programs in my absence. I've left you with some material that you've likely not heard before and that I think you'll find helpful. Today, it's a talk that I called Why Economic Freedom. |
| 0:56.3 | Here's why. This is a talk I gave in early 2013 to the St. Charles County Liberty Project in Missouri. |
| 1:05.7 | And although, I suppose, my longtime listeners will find a lot of familiar themes in it, once in a while, even I find it helpful to hear a presentation that just puts everything together. |
| 1:16.4 | You know, and I'm sure some of you feel the same way. Once in a while, even though you know some of the details, it still helps to hear the whole case made from time to time, and that's really what I'm doing here. |
| 1:26.5 | But let me let you in on a couple of |
| 1:28.0 | things that you'll hear in here. For one thing, I refer to a K-12 home school program that I'm |
| 1:33.7 | working on. Well, of course, that turned out to be Ron Paul's program, but we hadn't yet |
| 1:38.6 | made the official announcement. I wasn't allowed to say anything yet. Ron wanted to make that |
| 1:43.8 | announcement at a special |
| 1:44.8 | homeschool convention. So I just sort of danced around it and said that I was working on a K-12 |
| 1:49.7 | program, but you guys all know about that. It's Ron Paulhomeschool.com. And of course, if you |
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