Government Bailouts: Picking Winners

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government, Booms and Busts, Corporate Welfare

08/31/2009 Walter Block

Presented by Walter Block at “Recovery or Stagnation?,” the Mises Circle in San Francisco; sponsored by Mark L. Hart, III, and hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French. Recorded Saturday, August 29th, 2009.

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