Gene Epstein returns on the 50th anniversary of William Styron’s historical novel The Confessions of Nat Turner, the slave who led a famous revolt in Virginia. Since Styron was a white southerner who wrote a Nat Turner novel in the first person, you can imagine… Read More
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Ep. 1021 The Nobel Prize and Behavioral Economics: Anything Here for Austrians?
Gene Epstein of Barron’s joins me to discuss Richard Thaler, this year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics, who has helped to popularize “behavioral economics,” and how to deal with situations in which people behave “irrationally” (that is, unlike the way neoclassical economics expects… Read More
Ep. 983 Can We Really Measure the “Happiest” Countries?
The “happiness” literature purports to speak about levels of happiness in various countries. Popular journalism then purports to explain why the happiest places are happy — and it’s always because of the state. Is there anything to this research? About the Guest Gene Epstein is… Read More
Ep. 927 Is Trump Going Down?
The Reagan Administration’s David Stockman is convinced Trump will not survive 2018. His analysis is so compelling that I decided we had to discuss it. I won’t give away the details; just listen! About the Guest David Stockman, a former member of the U.S. Congress,… Read More
Ep. 921 The Long History of Presidential Stupidity in Economics
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. About the Guest Gene Epstein… Read More
Ep. 891 Fiscal Doomsday: When It’s Coming and What It Looks Like
The March 2017 report of the Congressional Budget Office paints a grim picture about the fiscal future of the United States — but don’t we hear a lot of grim predictions, and don’t things usually carry on as before? Gene Epstein explains what’s really going… Read More
Is Harvard Calling Me “Fake News”?
Today’s Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people receive every weekday. Be one of them . How about this: Harvard University has released a guide to so-called fake news. That guide links to a lengthy list of offending websites, which includes TomWoods.com. Now granted, next to my entry… Read More
Ep. 822 The Work of Thomas Sowell: An Appreciation
Thomas Sowell, a prolific scholar who has had a great influence on me, ended his syndicated column a couple of weeks ago. Gene Epstein of Barron’s joins me for an overview of Sowell’s work on race, economics, and more. About the Guest Gene Epstein is… Read More
Your Friends Still Think Deregulation Caused the Financial Crisis
Today’s Tom Woods Letter, which all the influential people receive every weekday. Be one of them . So-called “fake news” on Facebook is getting a lot of attention. My greatest annoyance on Facebook? Dumb opinions. Someone in the Tom Woods Show private Facebook group shared a post by a friend of his.… Read More
The Man Trump Most Needs to Speak To
Rumor has it that Donald Trump is considering a major bankster for Secretary of the Treasury. If that ends up being the case, then Trump sure went to a lot of trouble to wind up not changing anything. On this weekend’s episode of Contra Krugman,… Read More