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🗓️ 31 May 2017
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Everyone always thinks the current president must be the worst. Surely President X is the most ignorant when it comes to economics! Well, there's a lot of competition for that honor, my friend, as Gene Epstein joins me to explain.
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0:36.8 | Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here. |
0:38.4 | I'm joined once again by our old friend, Gene Epstein, who is economics and book review |
0:44.7 | editor over at Barron's, the nation's premier financial publication. |
0:49.3 | Gene wrote to me the other day and said, you know, there's really an embarrassment of riches |
0:52.7 | when it comes to presidential stupidity when it comes to economics. And for some reason, the Trump phenomenon |
0:59.4 | has made people forget our rich, rich history of presidential stupidity in this country. So |
1:07.3 | we're going to revisit some of that rich history of presidential economic stupidity today |
1:13.3 | in this very episode. Gene, welcome back. |
1:17.7 | I'm happy to be back, Tom. All right, let me tell people, first of all, before you say anything, |
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