Ep. 397 The Fed: The Lifeblood of the Empire
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2015
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Here's the speech I gave at Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic in 2008. He held this event down the street from the Republican Convention, which was in the process that week of nominating John McCain. One of the most thrilling moments of my life.
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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. |
| 0:21.3 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 397. |
| 0:38.3 | I've got my little baby here in the office with me today, so if you happen to hear any baby sounds in the background while I am recording this, you'll know the reason. |
| 0:47.1 | I've got actually all five of my daughters here, and the others are trying to keep her as quiet as they possibly can, but I'm not sure it can be done. |
| 0:56.0 | Anyway, today, I hope I'm not Ron Pauling you guys out, but today I was basically gone all day. So for the episode for today, |
| 1:03.2 | I am reproducing something that's older, but that I think you guys will like. Let me pause to |
| 1:09.2 | point out, by the way, that tomorrow I will be recording |
| 1:11.8 | my final videos for the work I'm doing for the Ron Paul homeschool program. And that means |
| 1:20.3 | that I will have more spare time, which means I'll be able to record and prepare these |
| 1:25.3 | programs in advance, a whole bunch of them in advance, so I won't be |
| 1:29.2 | sort of racing around in a situation like today where I was very busy and I had appointments |
| 1:33.3 | all day and, you know, at the last minute I have to come up with something, you know, so it'll be |
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