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Ron Paul was dismissed as a crank not just for his particular monetary views, but even for bringing up the subject at all -- who the heck talks about the monetary system?

Not to mention, the monetary system is one of those things our betters would prefer to relegated to the shadows of our minds -- it's there, but we don't really think about it.

But it really does matter, and while of course we have to discuss the issues of the day, too, we must discuss these big-picture issues. That's the balancing act you see on the Tom Woods Show.

It isn't just that unsound money is the culprit in rising consumer prices, although that's certainly true and is ample reason to oppose it.

It goes well beyond that -- hence Larry Lepard's Twitter tagline: "Fix the money, fix the world."

As early as 1833, the great William Gouge was already writing about how unsound money harms the character of a people, and not just their pocketbooks. (I'll be giving you a fresh, clean, and free EPUB version of Gouge's forgotten work on the subject in the coming months.)

Dr. Paul said it was no coincidence that the era of inflationary central banks coincided with the era of total war; as I put it at Dr. Paul's 2008 Rally for the Republic, "If you want to stop the war machine, you have to go after the money machine."

My friend Saifedean Ammous, one of the most creative thinkers we have in the world of economics, has shown how fiat money has affected our food, our architecture, our agriculture, our schools, our science, our universities, our energy policy, our family life, and plenty more.

Rising prices would be bad enough, but the picture Saifedean paints is a blankety-blank disaster -- and we haven't even mentioned the business cycle, which ruins so many people (rich and poor alike) and is likewise caused by our monetary system.

Money is therefore one of the most urgently necessary topics to master, and most of us know almost nothing about it -- which, as I say, is precisely the way the bad guys like it.

It so happens that my friend Andy Keusal, a homeschooling father of ten and a genuine expert on the subject (on which he has 25 years of professional experience), has just released a course intended to get your kids' heads on straight on this crucial topic (and you, dear parent, may want to take it yourself -- there's no law against that).

Andy takes a biblical perspective on the question, so if that doesn't interest you then the course may not be for you, but part of his argument is that sound money is not only economically superior but is also contemplated in the Bible itself.

For a few days you can take 15% off Andy's course with (what else?) code WOODS:
 
Check out the P.S., just below, for my super-duper bonus for anyone who picks it up by Friday.

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P.S. Pick up Andy's course and forward your receipt to bonuses@tomwoods.com, and you can have my Government course for the Ron Paul Curriculum (which sells at my homeschool site for $50) for free.

Adults: I promise you will not feel talked down to, and will benefit very much from, this course, whose 90 audio or video lessons are as follows:

1. Introduction
2. Natural Rights Theories: High Middle Ages to Late Scholastics
3. Natural Rights Theories: John Locke and Self-Ownership
4. Natural Rights Theories: Argumentation Ethics
5. Week 1 Review

6. Locke and Spooner on Consent
7. The Tale of the Slave
8. Human Rights and Property Rights
9. Negative Rights and Positive Rights
10. Week 2 Review

11. Critics of Liberalism: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the General Will
12. Critics of Liberalism: John Rawls and Egalitarianism
13. Critics of Liberalism: Thomas Nagel and Ronald Dworkin
14. Critics of Liberalism: G.A. Cohen
15. Week 3 Review

16. Public Goods
17. The Standard of Living
18. Poverty
19. Monopoly
20. Week 4 Review

21. Science
22. Inequality
23. Aid to Developing Countries
24. Discrimination
25. Week 5 Review

26. The Socialist Calculation Problem
27. Working Conditions
28. Child Labor
29. Labor and Unions
30. Week 6 Review

31. Health Care
32. Antitrust
33. Farm Programs
34. War and the Economy
35. Week 7 Review

36. Business Cycles
37. Industrial Policy
38. Government, the Market, and the Environment
39. Prohibition
40. Week 8 Review

41. Taxation
42. Government Spending
43. The Welfare State: Theoretical Issues
44. The Welfare State: Practical Issues
45. Week 9 Review

46. Price Controls
47. Government and Money, Part I
48. Government and Money, Part II
49. Midterm Review
50. Week 10 Review

51. The Theory of the Modern State
52. American Federalism and the Compact Theory
53. Can Political Bodies Be Too Large?
54. Decentralization
55. Week 11 Review

56. Constitutionalism: Purpose
57. The American Case: Self-Government and the Tenth Amendment
58. The American Case: Progressives and the "Living, Breathing Document"
59. The American States and the Federal Government
60. Week 12 Review

61. Monarchy
62. Social Democracy
63. Fascism I
64. Fascism II
65. Week 13 Review

66. Marx I
67. Marx II
68. Communism I
69. Communism II
70. Week 14 Review

71. Miscellaneous Intervention: Postwar Africa
72. Public Choice I
73. Public Choice II
74. Miscellaneous Examples of Government Activity and Incentives
75. Week 15 Review

76. The Industrial Revolution
77. The New Deal I
78. The New Deal II
79. The Housing Bust of 2008
80. Week 16 Review

81. Are Voters Informed?
82. Is Political Representation Meaningful?
83. The Myth of the Rule of Law
84. The Incentives of Democracy
85. Week 17 Review

86. The Sweeping Critique: Robert LeFevre
87. The Sweeping Critique: Murray N. Rothbard
88. Case Study: The Old West
89. Economic Freedom of the World
90. Week 18 Review

Again, get this bonuses when you forward your receipt from Andy's Biblical Money course to bonuses@tomwoods.com.

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