Ep. 728 Can Libertarians Make a Decent Case for Free Trade?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
With protectionism on the rise and opponents of trade insisting that international competition is at the root of Middle America's problems, the libertarian response -- to my mind, at least -- has been tepid and unpersuasive. Gene Epstein joins me to fix that.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 728. |
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| 0:08.2 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:32.2 | Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. |
| 0:33.5 | We're talking about free trade once again. |
| 0:36.0 | My feeling is that libertarians have not done such a |
| 0:38.9 | great job on this issue and that they really have not taken people on when they've said, |
| 0:46.5 | free trade has devastated America and look at all these towns that are all boarded up and so many |
| 0:52.8 | people have lost their jobs because of it and now |
| 0:55.0 | they have they're extremely insecure in their employment and this is all because of free trade |
| 0:59.5 | specifically. Well, today we're going to talk to Gene Epstein about this because Gene has just |
| 1:04.8 | written a column for Barron's on it. Gene, of course, is a frequent guest on this show. He's also economics and book review |
| 1:13.3 | editor over at Barron's, which is the nation's premier financial publication. Gene, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:20.9 | It's good to be back, Tom, and, you know, my God, I've got the status of having, I think you said, |
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