Ep. 38 Murphy Takes on MMT
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Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2013
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Tom talks with Dr. Robert Murphy about Modern Monetary Theory.
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| 0:00.0 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:09.9 | In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:14.9 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:16.5 | Daddy, what do taxes pay for? |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, why everything? |
| 0:19.7 | Policemen, trees, sunshine. |
| 0:21.9 | And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them. |
| 0:25.9 | Don't be afraid. |
| 0:26.7 | I'll feel free to unshackle your mind. |
| 0:31.3 | An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government. |
| 0:36.9 | Your professor has arrived. |
| 0:41.1 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:46.8 | Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:52.3 | The Tom Woods Show. Welcome, everybody. It is Wednesday, November 13, |
| 1:01.1 | 2013. Tom Woods here with Bob Murphy, Robert P. Murphy, one of your favorite economists, no |
| 1:07.4 | doubt, and he is here by popular demand to take on a subject that you may have |
| 1:13.3 | heard brought up in the media, certain sectors of the media, you may see circulated on Facebook, |
| 1:18.9 | and a lot of people want to know how do we answer it, and that is something called |
| 1:22.5 | modern monetary theory, or MMT. And Bob is here to talk to us about it at a level that the layman |
| 1:30.1 | can follow and that I hope will help you guys understand this better and know what kind of |
| 1:35.5 | response you ought to give when you're confronted with so-called modern monetary theory. |
| 1:39.7 | Now, you know Bob Murphy, he's a great guy. He holds a PhD in economics from New York University. |
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