The Tom Woods Show, episode 790.

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Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here. This is the episode we are releasing on Thanksgiving Day.

And of course, you think Thanksgiving, you're going to thank Dodd-Frank.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is actually our topic for today.

It's a topic I've wanted to cover for a while. It's a topic that came up in the presidential debates,

certainly in the primaries, quite a bit, and everybody seemed to be convinced

that it's a bad thing. And yet the conventional wisdom is that it's a good thing. We need this

kind of regulation. So I want to get to the bottom of it. And in doing so, I am bringing back to the show

our friend Peter Wallison from the American Enterprise Institute, because he's the author, among other books, of a big, big book called Bad History, Worst Policy, how a false

narrative about the financial crisis led to the Dodd-Frank Act. Peter Wallaceon is a lawyer

and the Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

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