Ep. 381 Another Place the Keynesians Wrecked
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Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
As the Brazilian economy has cooled off and public discontent is mounting, recent economic policy in Brazil is coming under increasing scrutiny. In today's episode we get to the bottom of what's really going on -- plus the "less Marx, more Mises" protests!
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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. |
| 0:15.1 | Look no further. |
| 0:16.7 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.1 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.6 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 381. |
| 0:38.0 | Today we are talking about another victim of Keynesianism, in this case Brazil, and we're talking about Brazil, with our friend Professor Anthony Mueller, who is a professor of economics at the Federal University of Sershepe. |
| 0:55.9 | He is also the founder and president of the Continental Economics Institute. He's an associated scholar of the Mises Institute |
| 1:01.8 | in the United States, and he is academic director of the Mises Institute, Brazil. Professor |
| 1:08.9 | Mueller was also a Fulbright scholar. We'll be linking on the show notes |
| 1:12.7 | page tomwoods.com slash 381 to his blog and his podcast. His podcast is in Portuguese, but I know |
| 1:21.2 | there are some Portuguese speakers listening to this show. All right, time now for my conversation with Anthony Mueller. Here we go. Professor Mueller, |
| 1:31.0 | welcome to the show. Thank you. It's great to be with you. I wanted to talk to you about Brazil |
| 1:36.7 | because it's been in the news quite a bit, but also because you wrote an article, which we will link to on |
| 1:42.3 | today's show notes page. This is episode 381, so the show notes page will be tomwoods.com slash 381. I'm going to link to this article you wrote on mezes.org about Brazil as a victim of what you call vulgar Keynesianism. Now, let me tell you that from the American point of view, Brazil has been a great success story. |
| 2:01.6 | Hillary Clinton was bragging about Brazil as a place that proves you can have very high taxes |
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