Ep. 54 Pope Francis on Capitalism
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2013
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Tom talks about the economic passages in Evangelii Gaudium of Pope Francis. On this topic check out Tom's book The Church and the Market, which won first place in the books category of the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards.
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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 be afraid of you, dad. |
| 0:28.3 | Prepare 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. |
| 0:56.4 | Welcome, everybody. It is Friday, December 6th, 2013. Tom Woods here. We're going to talk |
| 1:02.7 | today finally about Pope Francis and his apostolic exhortation, Evangelion E. Gaudium. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm going to talk only about the economic passages, |
| 1:20.5 | and even then, probably not all of them. I'm in a bit of haste here. I've got the program broadcasting about an hour from now, and here I am recording it just now, but that's my schedule these days. |
| 1:26.6 | Before I get to this, a couple of quick notes. |
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| 1:36.0 | website. Libertyclassroom.com is the place you can learn the real history and economics you |
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