Walter Block on Liberty, Economics, and so much more

Published: Aug. 26, 2021, 12:58 p.m.

Today Doug Casey is joined by Walter Block an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist. He's a professor of Economics at the School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans, and is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute.  

 

Walter and Doug have been friends for 40 years. 

 

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Chapters: 

00:00:00 Introduction 

2:35 Walter Block & Bernie Sanders

5:51 Ayn Rand 

7:19 Doug's introduction to libertarian ideas

10:06 Walter Block’s dust-ups

15:31 Jesuit universities 

17:09 Where is the world going?

20:22 Hypocrisy 

24:09 Where does Doug disagree with AnCap ideas?

31:57 Can this change course?

33:28 Doug's books 

36:27 People aren’t intellectually honest anymore 

40:03 Socialism in the family 

46:26 Civil war 

50:15 Pessimistic scenario number two: economics 

56:30 What to do about the business cycle 

1:00:10 Greater Depression