Ep. 465 The War on Cash: You Won't Believe How and Why Governments Are Waging It
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
It's not enough that governments took away the people's gold and made them hold paper -- now they want the people to get rid of the paper! What's behind the global attack on cash? Charles Hugh Smith pulls back the curtain.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 465. |
| 0:03.7 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.3 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey, everybody, you know what I love? |
| 0:16.5 | Getting paid for things I'm going to do anyway. |
| 0:19.4 | So I just joined ebates because I get cash back for purchases I'm going to do anyway. So I just joined ebates because I get cash back |
| 0:22.7 | for purchases I'm going to make anyway. Sign up through tomwoods.com slash ebates and get a free |
| 0:28.8 | $10 gift card. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. The war on cash is heating up around the world. |
| 0:36.1 | What do we mean by a war on cash? What's really going on here? |
| 0:39.8 | We're going to talk about this today. It's a very important topic. Talk about it with Charles |
| 0:44.1 | Hugh Smith, who returns to the program. We had him on, well, quite a while ago, in fact, to talk |
| 0:50.3 | about his very useful book, Get a Job, Build a Real Career, and Defy a Bewildering Economy. |
| 0:58.8 | You'll really want to listen to that episode. |
| 1:00.4 | We'll link to it on today's show notes page, which is tomwoods.com slash 465. |
| 1:06.7 | Charles is the principal writer at the blog of Two Minds, which you can visit at of2Minds.com. |
| 1:15.1 | He started the site about 10 years ago. |
| 1:17.7 | It's been listed at number seven on CNBC's top alternative financial sites and has drawn 20 million page views. |
| 1:26.2 | He's written commentaries all over the place in publications that |
| 1:30.3 | you and I read. He is the author of many books. I'll list some of them on today's show notes |
| 1:36.2 | page, Tom Woods.com slash 465, but you will definitely want to check out the of two minds blog at |
| 1:44.0 | ofto minds.com. And if it gives you any |
| 1:46.9 | ideas, by the way, about how great it would be to join the blogosphere yourselves, remember I'll |
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