The Tom Woods Show, episode 675.

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Venezuela is our topic for today and what's been going on there.

It seems to be an object lesson in the problems with socialism,

but you can't get Bernie Sanders even to comment on what's going on over there.

And joining me to talk about this is Mark Perry. Mark Perry runs

one of the most popular economics blogs in the country, the Carpe DM blog over at the American

Enterprise Institute. I'll be linking to it at Tom Woods.com slash 675. Mark Perry is a professor of economics at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan,

and since fall of 2009, he's also held a joint appointment as a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

He wrote a piece that I'm going to be looking to at Tom Woods.com slash 675 that I think you'll enjoy and he i mean

i just like reading his blog posts he's done a lot of really really great stuff over at carpe dm

and i think you'll enjoy it as well mark perry welcome back to the show hi tom glad to be back

i've been having a lot of requests for a show on Venezuela.

Then I saw your article, which we're linking to at tomwoods.com slash 675,

Venezuelan apocalypse, some updates on the epic failure of socialism in oil-rich Venezuela.

You've got the goods on Venezuela and on the socialist policies there.

You've got link after link after link.

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