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Believe it or not, everybody, we're back with another post-debat analysis of a GOP presidential

debate here in the 2016 season.

And joining me, as always, is Lou Rockwell,

founder and chairman of the Mises Institute, Mises.org. That's MISES.org. That's the website.

And he is, of course, the publisher of Lou Rockwell.com, which we all read daily, and he was early on chief of staff for Ron Paul.

I'm very glad to welcome him back to the show. Lou, thanks for being with me again.

Tom, it's a great pleasure, as always, to make fun of these guys.

Yeah, that's right. It sure is. Well, there is a lot to say about last night. At first, I thought,

well, you know, it's going to be just another one of these, but there were some, you know,

some entertaining confrontations. And I definitely thought, I think this is a case where the

conventional wisdom is correct. I thought Rand did much better last night. I thought this was by far

the strongest I've seen him. Tom, I don't know who was coaching him, but he certainly is doing a far

better job than the previous coaches. Rand seemed relaxed. He smiled. He wasn't yelling.

And I thought he did very good.

Also, of course, far more important.

He was channeling his dad.

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