Hello fellow rebel capitals hope you're well. I'm here with my good buddy Bob Murphy and we are going to discuss a few things we're going to debate a few things

This is going to be a fantastic conversations. We're going to get into the Fed. We're going to get into interest rates,

inflation, sound money. Does it even make a difference? Should we go to a gold standard or a

Bitcoin standard or would we end up right back where we are right now with

high rates of inflation and massive government infringing on our liberties and

our freedom. So Bob, thanks for joining me today, buddy.

Happy holidays, by the way.

Oh, thanks.

Same to you, George.

Glad to be here.

Okay, now I listened to a podcast that you did on the Human Action, or an episode of the human action

podcast where you went over a debate that you had with this gentleman Dean what

was his last name Baker.

Dean Baker.

Dean Baker.

Yeah, and I think you hit the nail on the head.

And if you want to summarize that briefly,

and what I want to start off with

before we kind of get into our differences is why these

mainstream economists from a psychological standpoint why is it so difficult for them to

acknowledge that the market might know something that they don't?

You know, when Dean was sitting there saying that he completely ignores the yield curve,

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