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Patrick Newman

Patrick Newman

Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa and Murray N. Rothbard Research Fellow at the Mises Institute, specializing in cronyism and American economic history.

Aug 21, 2026

25:07
Because he wanted to really
25:09
talk more about the working conditions and, like, you know, the struggle for the proletariat, you know, of the proletariat, so to speak.
25:15
But in reality, what people cared about was, oh my God, there's something wrong with our food, right? And he had said that he visited the meat packing facilities in Chicago and all this stuff.
25:27
And he had found all these abuses.
25:30
And in reality, he lied.
25:32
He visited like one time on a guided tour.
25:35
And then he spoke to two people who talked to two other people, right? One of those things.

9 MINS LATER

34:43
Oh, no, no, if it's If the reason they can give, if the rationale they can give for restricting output and making things more expensive is because we want to maintain minimum standards of quality for the public, well, then they're the good guys.

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