Freedom Adventure Podcast: Recent Episodes
David Forsyth
Anti lockdown, free markets, small business advocate and peaceful civil disobedience This podcast is for freedom lovers. I am trying to create a freedom family, Delivered 6 days a week, 2 short solo episodes giving freedom value and 4 30 minute episodes with freedom writers ,experts and liberty lovers. Are you Adventurous then subscribe to the freedom Adventure Podcast
Michael Esfeld says the covid regime would not have been possible without fiat money. Post modern tyranny is different because of little narratives. If covid gets debunked they move to climate change and then social injustice. We need to use reason, question and resist the regime in order to stay free. If you question the narrative, you are a heretic.
Per Bylund of AIER and Mises says that we can’t blame politicians for promising the impossible. The real problem is economic illiteracy with people in general. We discuss his new book How to think About The economy: A Primer. Economics is the least ideological science and teaches how the world works.
Kristoffer Hansen of Mises says celebrating less land use for agriculture is not a good thing is malinvestment of capital. There is plenty of land, but the state prevents people from using it. The Green revolution is not all it is made up to be.
Sarah Lilly of Red State Abroad discusses China’s social credit score system. Things people are punished for include eating junk food, playing video games, visiting unauthorized websites, making frivolous purchases and criticizing government. The system is corrupt, rich people simply buy scores. China teaches the west why having social credit scores is a bad idea.
Robert J. Burrowes says digitalizing your identity is a fast-track to slavery. Every detail of your personal life is being accumulated and stored and you will have to comply in order to buy and sell things. Facial recognition technology and cameras can track your every move. Elites want to micro-chip you and end freewill. We discuss how to defend your freedom.
Alex J. Pollock discusses Paul Volker and the great inflation and the similarities to today. Volker raised interest rates to an all time high and defeated run away inflation. His predecessor Arthur Burns anguished over inflation and central bankers are facing a similar anguish today. We discuss the knowledge problem and how central planners are a menace to society.
Lee Trepanier of Law & Liberty discusses the 1971 paper education in a free society. We need to privatize universities or than will be no innovation. The American universities have been nationalized. We discuss how to bring change. Little has changed in 50 years.
Charlotta Stern says countries like the US shouldn’t emulate the Swedish labor market. Sweden became rich after liberalizing their economy. Today the labor market uses coercion and is heavily unionized. However, Sweden is better than most EU countries and will be hurt by EU labor laws. It works for Sweden
Dr. Julie Ponesse of Democracy Fund says the state is targeting religious people and organizations with covid policy. Followers of the state believe the state can achieve Utopia. Anyone who questions the state is a non-believer. Freedom of religion must be preserved and freedom lovers need to fight the totalitarian state.
Yuri Maltsev of Mises says Gorbachev inadvertently brought the Soviet Union down by taking the fear out of socialism. Gorbachev did not reform socialism. Millions died under Stalin. The Soviet Union should be a stern warning against socialism. People should look to Austrian economics not Marx for answers.
Bretigne Shaffer says Toby Rogers is a hero of the medical freedom movement, but gets classical liberalism and the progressive state wrong. Classical Liberalism was not helped by slavery. Industry capture is a bug, not a feature of the regulatory state. The State is the biggest monopolist around. Freedom is the answer.
Jon Sanders of AIER says the elites want us to eat bugs. Insects are eaten in very poor countries that can’t afford meat. The media is trying to normalize eating bugs. There is a yuck factor and bugs will never out compete meat Freedom is the answer.
James Howard Kunstler says the Woke Up elites are destroying western civilization. The money system will fail and people in Europe are going to find it hard to heat their homes. Europe is declaring war on its own people. There will be an uprising against the elite.
Thomas Harrington of Brownstone questions why we adore dogs and despise people. People are using dogs as a coping mechanism. People are losing social skills and worrying about being called out. Social media is making people crueler. College students have a lot of anxiety.
Jack Elbaum of FEE says teacher Unions are politicizing schools and blaming parents. The parents woke up to education after Covid. Monopolies always are bad and we need school choice. The solution is educational freedom. The bad effects of school closures are becoming clear.
Ben Bartee says Sri Lanka is a case study for the World Economic Forum’s policies. They took away the means for peasants to farm. They forced organic farming with no training or supplies and equipment. Food production decreased 50% and gas prices soared. The Dutch farmers are protesting. The best way to resist is become part of the parallel economy.
Jonathan Hofer of the Independent institute discussed the pitfalls of automated license plate readers in California. 1 out of 10 reads are in error. Law enforcement has a terrible record of protecting data. There is little evidence in increasing public safety. You can be pulled over at gunpoint.
Talking about California energy policies and requiring all new cars to have 0 emissions
Christopher J. Coyne of the Independent Institute says Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan was a clear signal to China, not to mess with Taiwan. Countries need to stop viewing the world as a zero-sum game. We need to look for non-violent solutions. We can no longer afford the empire.
Andre Marques says inflation makes people poorer and it’s the government’s fault. Inflation is caused by monetary expansion and businesses lose profits. The poor suffer the most and the wealthy save less. It is the government that perpetuates poverty
Kimberlee Josephson says Gen Z should ditch virtue in consumer choices. Consumers should abide the trader principle which promotes progress. Patagonia bashes chemicals and oil products then use these vey products. The thrift store is the most environmentally sound.
Jan Traflet discusses her book Fearless: Wilma Soss and America’s Forgotten Investor Movement. Wilma Soss was a activist for small shareholders. We discuss the similarities between the 69’s and 70’s and today. We discuss Wilma’s views on civil rights, Marxism and inflation.
Tate Fegley is excited about liberty and the populist right, but disappointed about their views on trade. The founding founders were individuals with different views. Tariffs are a tax and hurt consumers. The populist right needs to understand the destructive effects of tariffs in American history. America benefits from being a gigantic free trade zone.
Raymond C. Niles of AIER says we need to end the gasoline crisis through production, not coercion. Biden is thinking of price fixing, which led to long gas lines in the 1970’s. The fair price is the market price, which is telling us we need to increase oil production. Coercion makes people poorer and production makes us wealthy.
Josiah Neely says government can make climate change worst. We need to cut regulatory tape for clean energy sources. States with utility choice can meet green energy demand better. We need to eliminate subsidies. The solutions for clean energy lie in the free market.
Robert E. Wright of AIER says planners fail because of the knowledge problem and perverse incentives. Organizations need to decentralize and bring decision making to the lowest level. Firms need to incentivize their employees. Central planning almost always fails.
Jon Miltimore of FEE says the federal Government’s own study concluded its ban on assault weapons didn’t reduce gun violence. Jon explains why the do something mentality is harmful. People don’t trust and believe politicians, yet still want them to do something. The impulse to use collective force in wake of a tragedy has negative consequences.
Lawrence Reed of FEE say’s China’s great philosophers would be horrified by what Mao and the CCP created. Rothbard called Lau-tzu the first libertarian. Confucius and Mencius were anti-authoritarian and believe in harmony and peace. Taiwan should be worried about an invasion.
Art Carden discusses which economists should have gotten the Nobels before they died. Ludwig Von Mises was a great economist and his student Fredrick Hayek won the Nobel the year he died. Frank H. Knight the father of the Chicago School. Gordon Tullock should have shared the Nobel with James Buchanan. Armen Alchain, Harold Demsetz, William Baumol, Julian Simon, W.H. Hutt and Aaron Director should also have won the Nobel.
Joseph Soils -Mullen defends defaulting on national debt. Super powers defaulting is a rule not an exception. Nixon defaulted when he reneged on the Bretton Woods system. We can never repay the debt. Defaulting would cause little pain to ordinary Americans and give us huge gains.
John Staddon says Science is in trouble. The systems include bickering and vacillation over Covid and climate change hysteria. Politics and passion are huge problems. The social sciences have become too niche so scholars don’t get the proper criticism. Scientist have become writers.
Jim Sellars says the west are belligerent nations, Countries like Canada are puppet states to America. The Us number 1 export is weapons. We are being lied to and need to stand up for freedom and resist peacefully. Russia has a right to defend it’s border.
Dr. Daniel Sutter says that NFL players make a thousand times more than USFL players and that is ok. The NFL makes 10 billion annually and can afford to pay more. Free Agency help drive salaries up. We also discuss Name Image and licensing in college sports.
Dr. Laura Williams says many cities are banning Dollar Stores. This is getting rid of the best option for the poor for groceries and essentials. This shows a lack of empathy by wealthy activists and cities. It is an injustice to care more about appearances than the poor.
Craig Eyermann of the Independent Institute says President Biden’s record regulation spree is pushing prices higher. Inflation is worse than in the 70’s. We are entering a debt crisis and there is no soft landing. The free lunch era is over.
William F. Shughart II of the Independent Institute says the Department of Justice owes tax payers and computer users an apology for the Microsoft Antitrust. Competitors who can’t compete force antitrust not consumers. The main complaint was bundling Internet Explorer with Microsoft. Creative destruction took care of Internet Explorer.
Karen Selick says Edward Snowden is wrong about gold. You can now transmit gold with a tap of a button. There are now crypto currencies some even have debit cards. Karen’s choice is Kenesis Money. Karen also gives us an update on Canada’s mandates
Tony Francois says there are major changes coming to the Clean Water Act. There has been extreme government overreach and families can lose their homes over normal activities. The problem is compounded by 2 different government agencies enforcing the act. We need to give more authority to local governments.
Vibhu Vikramaditya of Mises Institute says markets promote real equality much more than progressive critics claim. Innovators can’t keep a monopoly for long in a free market. Most businesses fail and entrepreneurs take huge risks. Companies lose market share as competitors enter. Maximizing economic efficiency is a result of competition.
Marsha Familaro Enright is opening Reliance college a liberty oriented liberal arts college based on the Montessori style of teaching. She wants students to enter the world as self-reliant individuals The greatest guardian of liberty is autonomy because autonomous people do not tolerate being ruled. She will bring in mentors, experts in the field of student’s interest.
Saul Zimet of FEE says the economic growth numbers are terrible. Economic degrowth hurts the poor the most. 2 strategies to eliminate poverty are wealth transfer and economic growth. The latter is only one effective at reducing extreme poverty for centuries. A small change in economic growth can radically change prosperity.
James Burling of Pacific Legal Foundation discusses the Clean Water Act. There is way to much executive overreach and wetlands is not defined. People lose their homes and go to jail even if given the green light by local authorities. We need to give local governments more or authority or better yet privatze waterways.
Gregory V. Diehl discusses his book Everyone is an Entrepreneur Selling Economic Self-Determination in a Post-Soviet World. The village In Armenia he lives in suffers from PSD a need for an authoritarian figure to tell them what to do. They do not exchange and do not have a store. Knowledge is more important than money. In order for societies to prosper we need to teach entrepreneurship.
Claudio Grass of Mises makes the case for gold in the modern era. Gold maintains it’s value and is stable during inflationary times. The dollar loses its value. There are new apps and technologies that make exchanging gold easier. He also discusses decentralization in gold and in Switzerland.
Jon Wolfenbarger discusses the importance of identifying bull and bear markets. We also discuss the risk of buy and hold investing and why mutual funds don’t beat the market. Most investors lose money in bear markets. Jon teaches how to profit in both bull and bear markets
Short solo episode explaining the only community welcomed in California Community Colleges is the woke community.
Lawrence J. McQuillan of the Independent Institute says California needs to make a bold move to fix the housing problem. We discuss his affordable housing amendment. Regulations are killing the housing supply. We need to empower builders and owners to build new housing and streamline the permit process. California is destroying property rights.
Nikolai G. Wenzel says journalist write opinion pieces and report them as fact. Trump changed journalism because they view him as a threat to democracy. Gonzo journalism has returned, where writers insert themselves into the story. We also discuss F.A. Hayek and freedom.
Kerry McDonald discusses Denisha Merriweather and Black Minds Matter a directory of over 300 black-owned schools. We discuss the need for school choice in the black community. Black entrepreneur educators have a positive impact. We need educational freedom for everyone.
Don Parker of Fordham Institute says public educators teaching civics is a conflict of interest. Asking educators about the role of government, is like asking Facebook about social media. We also discus school choice and course choice. Reforming K-12 education should address conflict of interest in civics.
Anita McKone of We are Free We are human says we need to resist monopolies and boycott government, social and corporate media. Pay with cash and support local business, economies and banks. It is important to resist peacefully. Avoid smart technology and 5G.
Robert F. Mulligan of AIER says there is a large pollution and income inequality problem in developing countries until they become wealthy. There is just inequality when you use your abilities. There is unjust inequality by rent seekers and cronies. Punitive taxes is not the solution to inequality.
Rachel Ferguson discusses Jason Riley’s book Black boom. She agrees with Riley that blacks fared better under Trump than Obama. Blacks benefited from less regulation and corporate taxes like everyone else. She also discusses the book she coauthored Black liberation through the marketplace. Economic freedom benefits the poor.
Vicki Alger of Independent Institute says Military families are being denied educational freedom at home. Lack of school choice is tough on military families because they can’t vote with their feet. Education savings account is the best solution because the money follows the student. Families are more satisfied when they have school choice.
Richard Gunderman of AIER says we were in a pandemic of loneliness prior to covid and is worse now. Married couples and their children live longer. You can get married for the wrong reasons. We also discuss isolation during the pandemic. We discuss Adam Smith and Leo Tolstoy.
Jefferson Lilly says barriers to mobile home parks cruelly limit housing supply. Mobile home parks are a way for low-income families to have ownership. Government is basically making new mobile home parks illegal hurting the poor. The good news is limited supply and high demand make mobile home parks a good investment for investors
Michael N. Peterson of AIER says ideas shaped the words that made the modern world. Diedre McCloskey says interpersonal rhetoric within a liberal and tolerant society praises entrepreneurs. Michael adds high order rhetoric changes our views on institutions. When government censors’ rhetoric it is bad for prosperity and freedom
Peter Serefine discusses how government got so big and how to reduce. He shares what makes America exceptional. We are grateful for the local sheriffs that didn’t enforce the mandates. We should focus local politically and economically. Peter shares his views on the constitution.
Philipp Bagus of Mises says we should read John Stuart Mill response to a pandemic. Mill believed you can’t force people to be tested or confined. Just because you didn’t believe in lockdowns, doesn’t mean you don’t care about people. We also discuss a response to the pandemic in a free society.
Anita McKone says the elite want to take control of all nature and life. We need to resist the Great Reset in order to maintain our freedom. We need to question everyone ad everything. Join We are Human We are Free a world-wide nonviolent campaign to resist The Great Reset.
Don Parker of AIER says public education is an innovation desert. We need to have big reforms. The system will always resist any competition. We have to fight against the enemies of innovation Government Bureaucracies, monopoly and special interests We need innovators and entrepreneurs.
Bas Spliet of Mises says the West was set apart because of decentralization and political competition. The European miracle and classical liberalism emerged and prosperity bloomed. The middle-class merchants became powers on their own. Bas tells the story of Bruges, Antwerp and Amsterdam to illustrate political competition.
Robin Koerner says making popular declarations on social media turns virtue into vice. Popular Declarations requires no time and creative energy. When you appear to be helping but not helping is worst than doing nothing. Make sur you are helping others more than yourself.
Jon Sanders says people are celebrating and smiling on planes because the mandates have ended. The only ones that aren’t happy is Fauci and the CDC. We talk about how we need to remain diligent and how threat free we are from the virus. Science changed at the beginning of the pandemic.
Jenin Younes says Big Tech is coerced by the government to censor you. The Biden administration is threatening ant-trust. Your 1st amendment rights are violated because they are not private actors. She talks about how she and the New Civil Liberties Alliance are fighting the administrative state.
Joseph Solis- Mullen says we are the safest power in history. We are surrounded by 2 large oceans and no one compares to our sea power. The Ukraine War shows we need to spend less on defense, not more. We have not had any successful interventions in over 20 years.
Daniel Klein discusses Adam Smith’s tri-layered justice. Only individual actions and duties can be just. Social justice is sloppy thinking. Keep your hands off my stuff. Prohibitions like paying for organs should be eliminated. Dan talks about justice from a pro liberty point of view
Dan Greenberg of the Competitive Enterprise Institute discusses five myths of civil forfeiture. Cash seizures are typically hundreds or thousands of dollars, not hundreds of thousands. People typically don’t get their day in court and without due process. People are not convicted or even charged for wrong doing.
Wendy Fedan discusses her children’s book Unmask Me. Children are harmed by wearing masks. Children are not vulnerable to the virus masking children doesn’t make sense. We need to see each other’s smiling faces. Wendy also talks about being an illustrator and caricature artist.
Randall G. Holcombe of the Independent Institute says voters can’t make bad choices because their vote has no consequences. Whether you voted for Trump, Biden or didn’t vote Biden would be president. Everyone thinks the other guy made bad choices. We also discuss the lack of trust in the CDC and masks.
Jon Wolfenbarger of Bear and Bull Profits says the Fed can’t fix the economy, but they can break it. The Fed can’t control the money supply and short-term interest rates, they are terrible at predicting the future and benefit the rich, bankers and the government. We also discuss how to make money in bull and bear markets.
Robert Aro says the debt is larger than money in existence. We had a 5 trillion-dollar pandemic relief fund. Another crash is coming. We should get rid of central banks. Some of our children might become trillionaire and that is not a good thing.
Bhaskaran Raman says stop using the phrase vaccine hesitancy. It sounds polite, but is actually despairing. We don’t know the long-term side effects or how long immunity lasts. People following the narrative don’t acknowledge natural immunity. It is amazing how much science changed in a couple of weeks.
Short solo episode explaining Biden is killing millions of blue collar jobs through executive orders
Joshua Polk of the Pacific Legal Foundation says property rights are under attack from state and local tax authorities. They commit home equity theft by foreclosing on the tax lien amount. Governments and private companies are picking up property for pennies on the dollar. This is a flagrant violation of the federal and state constitutions.
Robert Fojo tries to curb emergency powers in New Hampshire. He also tries to fight against school mask and Vaccine mandates and helped get religious exemptions to employees’ vaccine mandates. Like everyone who fights against the narrative Robert came under attack.
David Waugh says the HBO documentary had a refreshing look at wealthy investor. So called corporate raiders create value and remove hindrance to innovation. We need to get rid of stakeholder capitalism. We also discuss cryptocurrencies and the tradeoffs of proof-of-work vs. proof-of -stake.
Short solo episode explaining the lockdowns failed and we should no longer listen to Fauci and the CDC
Gerald P. Dwyer says government spending increased extraordinary the last couple of years. Inflation is running 7% and the interest rates need to increase. We are in a sovereign debt crisis and there are no good solutions. If the government doesn’t reduce spending or raise taxes, they are in big trouble.
Vibhu Vikramditya says we need to reexamine the need for central banks. The interest rate is a price and it is a bad idea to fix prices. Price is an indicator in how we should act in the market. The central banks fuel unsustainable booms. Low interest rates increase inflation and reduce profit margins.
Thomas Harrington of the Brownstone Institute says 25-year-old factcheckers can cancel renowned people in their field for years. The elites are trying to control culture. They flood the internet with information and tell you who you should listen to, a fascist trick if there ever was one.
The New York Times declared we need to go medieval on the corona virus. Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone institutes says we need a medieval response of sanctuary. The few that spoke out against the narrative came under attack. The Great Barrington Declaration changed that and we need to promote sanctuary for those who continue to speak out.
Jon Murphy discusses how liberalism declined during the pandemic, but believes it’s bouncing back. Progressives aren’t liberals. Liberals advocate for limited government. People and the courts are pushing back against the mandates. We must remain optimistic.
James L. Caton of American Institute for Economic Research discusses how Russia will respond to the financial sanctions. They will look for substitutes for the dollar like gold and bitcoin. The sanctions will weaken over time. The poor are the ones that suffer and sanctions never work as regime change.
Short solo episode talking about the World Economic Forum event 201 which predicted everything that happened in the pandemic.
Jayant Bhandari was stuck in India for 4 months at the start of the pandemic. People could not leave their homes even for groceries. The police beat people up if they ventured out. The bureaucracy, politicians, police and doctors are all corrupt. India had the most atrocious lockdown and the future doesn’t look bright
Robert E. Wright says American employers need to implement a Cost-of-Living Adjustment. Employees are leaving in droves. They seek higher paying jobs that employers are giving to new employees. Those who are staying are underperforming. Americans know their real wages are declining.
Gabrielle Bauer talks about people attacking her on social media for her views on lockdowns. Shaming doesn’t change people’s minds and doesn’t produce good results. The lockdowns had bad tradeoffs and did not stop the spread of Covid. Politics drove people’s views on Covid.
Short solo episode explaining the media is flooding the news with the Ukraine, because they what you to forget about the mandates, inflation and supply chain problems. That their policies created.
Ethan Yang says governments act in their own best interests like everyone else. Governments always use crisis to grow their powers. Countries with liberal democracies fared better during the pandemic. Emergency powers have resulted in very few benefits.
Michael Rectenwald says The Great Reset isn’t a conspiracy theory. It is real and backed by the world’s political and business leaders. They want to get rid of small business and install global corporate socialism. They want to bio- hack people and get rid of free will. If they succeed it will be the end of freedom.
Dorothy Chan of The American Institute for Economic Research says Solar Tariffs don’t help the solar industry and hurts the consumer. China dominates the industry after Tariffs and did not reduce the trade deficit. Subsidies discourages innovation. Time for tariffs to go.
Ronald Stein Says Biden has taken us from energy independence to energy dependence. Getting rid of fossil fuels will kill billions of people. Over 6000 products are made with oil derivatives. Getting rid of oil will destroy poorer countries
Trey Carson says that public health is as much an art as a science. Hayek warns about the dangers of public policy not accounting for individual behavior. Lockdowns are a clear example of Hayek's warning. Private actors should help guide public health.
Andre Marques discusses how the government uses the Consumer Price Index to lie about inflation. They don’t include true housing and Adjust prices for improvements, but not for lower quality. Having a low CPI increases government revenues and hurts the poor and middle class.
Paul Jossey of the Competitive Enterprise Institute says stable coins like Tether ae becoming popular in unstable countries. Venezuela with high inflation finds them very valuable and they are growing in popularity in East Asia. The Ukraine conflict illustrates the need for stable coins.
Jose Nino says the US is exporting woke to other countries. It could engulf Europe. A lot of countries are pushing back including liberal France. The American culture is in decline since the 60’s. Wokism could provoke an ant-American backlash.
Kimberlee Josephson of the Consumer Choice Center says businesses need to be flexible with their supply chains and intergrate new knowledge. Many large companies are vertically integrating their supply chains. Small businesses can learn from big business. Businesses need multiple channels.
Short solo episode talking about a villain I ran across and how he wants to bio-hack humans and get rid of free will.
Michelle Minton of the Completive Enterprise Institute says a Treasury report endorses deregulation of the alcohol industry. The craft brew industry has thrived in recent years. Further deregulation will improve competition. Producers are captive to their distributor.
Karen Selick makes predictions on what will happen with the Canadian mandates. The providences are lifting the mandates knowing there will be a universal national mandate giving them political clout for the upcoming elections. The freedom convoy was duped in supporting a Supreme Court reference.
Daniel Ortner of the Pacific Legal Foundation discusses Governor Cuomo and Newsome illustrate the need for checks and balances. We need emergency powers reform. The pandemic mandates were arbitrary. The separation of powers matter.
Robert Batemarco reviews Robert Kennedy Jr.'s book the Real Anthony Fauci. He prevented doctors from treating Covid. Pharma made billions on a vaccine rushed to market. Fauci prevented people from taking Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin despite evidence that they cure Covid. The FDA approved Remdesivir a drug so toxic that it was pulled for cancer treatment.
Kat Dwyer says Biden is scapegoating private companies for inflation. The real culprits are bad pandemic policy creating supply chain problems and the Fed’s monetary policy. Raising interest rates will give short term pain for long term gain. Inflation is the highest in 4 decades.
Brian Simpson says Big Tech are not monopolies. They became dominant from competition. Only government can create true monopolies. Anti-trust punishes success. The answer to monopolies is less government.
Short solo episode giving a shout out to the less strigent countries and places you can go with little restrictions
Raymond J. March of the Independent Institute says the Covid-19 ratchet effect is becoming endemic. Biden and Trump's executive orders dwarf previous presidents. Rent moratorium, student loan moratorium and mandates are easing but will never go away completely.
Dr. Todd Myers discusses his article in Search of humility. He discusses hoe Friedrich Hayek and Eric Voeglin distance themselves from conservatism. Hayek believed in Liberalism for freedom, but Voegelin believed Christianity to be the key. There is a lack of humility today
Joseph Solis-Mullen discusses the history of banking. He explains Bretton Woods monetary system and how we got off the gold standard. He discusses the events that led up to the the Great Recession. We also talk about the everything bubble.
Short solos episode explaining why small states are usually freer and if you are in the United States, it is better to fight for freedom locally.
Dr Samuel Gregg of Acton Institute says the important debate among conservatives should be whether Political economic thought should stay true to the founding principles. We discuss economics and commerce in the 18th century. many conservatives today believe in top down Corporatism
Randal O'Toole says less than 1% of people use transit and Amtrak before the pandemic and the numbers are declining. Poor people would benefit more from low interest loans for cars. Contractors and special interests benefit from building rail because it is moree expensive and profitable
Joseph Solis-Mullen says both parties love ptotectionism. Free trade is not something that has any traction in political debates and perhaps are efforts should be focused elsewhere. The clear losers of protectionism is the consumer.
Jon Sanders collected the data for how much a threat of transmitting the virus. 3-5 Americans in a thousand are capable of transmitting the virus. Fear is unhealthy. The virus is becoming endemic and people need to learn to live with it. Masks and social distancing are ineffective.
Donald Jeffries says the masses want to be safe and are willing to give up liberty. The Elite are waging World War III on the people. Masks are a sign of servitude. The Vaccines don't work and have killed more people than all the other vaccines combined. The variants are simply the next years virus.
Robert E. Wright discusses his article Democracy Demands Transparency. The democrats aren't very democratic. how do you know who to vote for if you do not know what they are doing. Government actions should be made readily available. Government surveils millions of Americans and they need to be surveilled too.
Ray Niles and Kyle Kirschling discuss the benefits of substeading full rights underground homesteading. This will privatize urban infrastructure and won't need Eminent domain. It will bring innovation and not disturb above ground property. It will bring choice.
Laura Williams says people spend years in jail without ever being convicted. The presumption of innocence has to be bought. Almost all parolees go back to jail. 95% of cases are plea bargained where you are threatened with 10 times amount of time.
Myles Wakeham teaches regaining your freedom with Financial Sustainability. You need to start with frugality, not debt. You can't be free if you rely on the government. You should travel and observe other cultures. True wealth is what you own, not what you owe.
Peter Wood says there is nothing phony about the culture war. People are waking up to woke policies. This is the biggest issue of our time. The left doesn't want to debate, they want to cancel you. The time to speak out is now or lose your freedom.
Corbin Elliot of the Peace and Purpose Podcast talks about how he turned his life from anxiety and despair to enthusiasm and fulfillment. He says we need to life our are own terms. You should keep a joy journal to help you find your purpose.
Becky Akers says churches that shut down were in violation of the word of God. Some churches are turning into jab joints. Churches need to obey God, not the state. She refers to pastors that enforced COVID policy as Parson Goat. Churches aren't suppose to wear masks, social distance or meet online.
Thomas Harrington says the elite hate people power and are making a large chunk of the population into social pariahs. On December 3rd 2010 Pay Pal canceled Julian Assange giving him social death and are using the same techniques against us. Big tech does the governments bidding and vice versa.
Mark Thornton of Mises Institute say banning economic incentives for human organ donors causes suffering for tens of thousands of people. Having a zero price causes shortages. People have used cannabis for medical reasons for thousands of years. Doctor prescribed medicines are far more dangerous
Casey Carlisle discusses how low time preference is important for prosperity. Liberty and morality is necessary for long term success of entrepreneurs. The Covid Zero crowd and government are arrogant for thinking they can control a virus. Covid policy is short term thinking.
Daniel J. Smith discusses the book he coauthored Money and the Rule of Law. We can't have limited government with discretionary central banking. The fed is the cause of all the financial crisis since the depression. We need to return to sound money. We need return banking to the rule of law.
Raymond C. Niles says Biden loves Trump's protective tariffs. Tariffs raise the cost of living and raises taxes. Everyone benefits from free trade and raises our standard of living. Both parties want a trade war with China. This is bad news for freedom lovers and consumers
Short solo episodes talking about the benefits of gratitude and the things I am grateful for
Ryan Bourne of the Cato Institute says the Build Back Better proposal includes subsides and federal regulations. This will raise the cost and create perverse incentives. Parents will lose the choice on child care. The middle class will once again carry the burden.
Jonathan Hofer of Independent Institute says the Patriot Act should have ended with Afghanistan. We discuss how an anthrax scare help get the Patriot Act. pass. Mass surveillance does not catch terrorists and gets in the way of focused police work. We gain nothing from the Patriot Act and lose freedom.
Robert Anthony Peters discusses Hong Kong losing it's freedom ant the one party rule under Xi Jinping. In Hong Kong protesters get arrested and voters are restricted to loyal party members. China is losing some of the liberties it gained recently. Robert talks about his movie Tankman and visiting Hong Kong.
Joshua Mawhorter says the first thing Congress did was raise taxes. Tariffs hurts the consumers and tax payers. Protectionism allows government to pick winners and losers. The only way to reduce crony capitalism is to reduce government. Lincoln was concerned with revenue, not slavery.
Daniel Klein discusses Steve Pinkerton's concept the left pole. No matter what direction you go in you are to the right. The right is more diverse than the left. The Republican Party needs to identify as the non-left and be more inclusive. The left loves big government.
Kerry McDonald of FEE says COVID policies are driving more mothers to home birthing. The U.S. has a dismal hospital birthing record and many mothers are finding home birthing a safer option. Birth should be a life event, not a medical one. These same policies are driving parents to homeschooling.
Short solo episode explaining while we have a huge spending bill to build infrastructure. We are losing medical, transportation and emergency service workers to the mandates.
Janna Woiceshyn says Laissez-Faire Capitalism is the road to economic recovery. Lockdowns and government overreach shrunk the world's economies. We need to restore freedom in order to prosper in the future. Sweden is not the ideal system, capitalism is.
Kristoffer Hansen says Fiat money makes beef more expensive. Fiat money changes how people invest and causes inflation. Beef consumption is going down and becoming a luxury item. We need to return to the gold standard. Money expansion creates winners and losers.
James Howard Kunstler talks about Biden's mask mandates and other blunders. It is crazy to fire healthcare workers during a pandemic. The vax shot is not effective or safe. The borders and leaving Afghanistan are disasters. We are living in a fake era.
Short solo episode explaining that we are individuals that can help build community and get the message out.
Jessica Thompson discusses how Pacific Legal Foundation is helping Mark Shirley fight for his food truck business. Farmville North Carolina's ridiculous fees and regulations drove Mark's business out of town. Mark is fighting against government overreach and right to pick winners and losers.
Antony Davies talks about how they want to tax the rich's wealth and unrealized capital gains. Next they will be coming for the middle class just like with income tax. A fiscal storm is coming and we need to return to sound money and limited government. Politicians want class warfare.
Jayant Bhandari says he felt dehumanized when people wanted to give him benefits because of his skin color. Honor is one of the main building blocks of Western culture. People need honor in order to prosper. We need to fight Woke culture or fall.
Jeffrey Tucker discusses the history of the Great Barrington Declaration. Three great scientists Mark Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya spoke out against lockdowns. They suffered much, but became heroes. We still have a long battle against lockdowns and liberty is at risk.
Todd Myers says the mining industry has been a curse in Guinea. The wealth rulers can get has ,led to violent coups. The political elite get rich while everyone else sees little benefits. The mining industry has huge environmental concerns. Countries prosper under freedom.
James Davenport exposes common myths about Capitalism. No one created capitalism, it rose out of spontaneous order. capitalism does not increase poverty. the underlying foundation of capitalism is freedom. There are a lot more winners under capitalism.
Jovana Dikovic says the unvaccinated are being blackmailed into getting the vaccine. This will cause psychological damage to children. The unvaccinated are being segregated and losing rights. Will liberty or a venal society emerge, only time will tell.
Joseph Solis Mullen says China has huge economic problems on the horizon and faces huge Ethnic and regional problems. They do not propose a threat to the United States. Sanctions help keep communist regimes in power. The U.S. needs to fix it's own internal problems.
Art Carden says you can let experts advise you, but can't let them choose for you. An expert can get it wrong, even when they are right. Covid policy should be left to individual choice. Institutions and businesses can have different Covid policies. People adapt to new knowledge.
Short solo episode explaining the advantages of buying locally and how a stronger local economy can help your community resist.
Jose Nino says Texas will usher in decentralized immigration. The federal government is gridlocked, so both red and blue states will get things done at the state level. Gun control, abortion, immigration and health services will become state issues. People are more interested in local governments.
Craig Eyermann of the Independent Institute says pandemic unemployment was the largest fraud ever in the U.S. Criminals here and abroad stole as much as 400 billion dollars. We also discuss how social security trustee is running out of money in 2033. Huge government failures.
Jon Sanders says the naturally immune have stronger immunity than the vaccinated. Biden's vaccine mandate is the biggest executive overreach in history. Vaccine passports are cruel and self defeating. Vaccines should be a personal choice.
Short solo episode explaining the government is blackmailing us into getting a vaccine and creating a caste system where people have different rights.
Luke Wake talks about Pacific Legal victories against the CDC eviction moratorium. The CDC had unlimited powers that violated the non-delegation doctrine. It was unfair to have one group shoulder the financial burdens of the pandemic. Need to rein in regulatory powers.
James Hanley says when people say trust the science really means trust your favorite scientist. people are politicizing science instead if using the scientific method. People should be skeptical of new knowledge, but not to automatically dismiss it. The cargo cult mimics science.
Marie Miller of the Institute for Justice says 60 million Americans are living in a no constitution zone for federal police. We talk about three cases where the Institute of justice fights for individual rights against qualified immunity for federal police. We need to live under the rule of law.
Short solo episode explaining we have more knowledge locally than nationally and we need to build strong local communities and economies
Larry Sand says children are at very low risk from Covid. Masks cause both physical and psychological harm to children. Parents should have school choice on whether to have mask mandates. parents need to consider opting out of public education. DeSantis gets it right
John Whitehead says it is time to bring all the troops home. military spending is bankrupting us and defense contractors are price gouging the tax payers. The empire has come home and using it's power on the American people. Wars aren't making us safer.
Lawrence Reed says economics is not like physics and math because it involves human action. Economics is haunted by fallacies. We discuss 7, collective terms, composition, money is wealth, production for it's own sake, free lunch, the short run and economics by coercion.
Doug Bandow says we should engage with China. Xi Jinping's regime is totalitarian however it might end just like Moa's regime. It is more important to have diplomatic relationships with countries the U.S, doesn't like. We should also engage with the Afghan people.
Ollie Adamson says Central Banks policies and lockdowns are an assault on the family. Ollie shares his story as a one income family. His wife was a full time homeschooler and homemaker, but inflation caught up with them and forced her to get a job. He also gives tips for those who want to homeschool.
Jonathan W. Plante says modern monetary theorists believe public debt is not a concern, because governments can print more money. The public debt redistributes wealth and picks winners and losers. Special interests have concentrated benefits and the masses have little personal cost. The real cost is freedom
Short solo episode explaining we can resist at the state, county city, small groups and individual levels.
Daniel Woislaw of the pacific Legal Foundation says tire chalking is a suspicionless search and protected under the 4th amendment. We need to fight for our privacy and property rights. Give government an inch and they will take a mile. After lockdowns, it is more important to fight for liberty.
Frank Fruedi discuses why main stream elite and woke culture are outraged by Tucker Carlson's trip to Hungary. They value western culture and the elite can't stand that. Prime Minister Orban believes in Hungarian sovereignty and Western values.
Peter St Onge of Mises discuss innovation only changes the world when it is cheap. The lightning makes bitcoin transaction cheap and is a game changer. We will be able to use bitcoin to replace the dollar and decentralize the world. People will be able do transactions for a fraction of a penny.
Zachary Yost of the Mises Institute discuss how the foreign policy establishment is stuck in 1938 Munich. Japan didn't think America was weak and we weren't isolationists. This flawed view of history effects foreign policy today. We also discuss Afghanistan and debt.
James Burling of the Pacific Legal Foundation discuss how too much building regulation has caused a housing shortage and housing prices to sky rocketing. The pandemic has caused an even greater housing burden in some areas. Regulation increases homelessness and prices working families out of ownership.
Jeff Degner explains that there is a growing schism in evangelical voting block. The left is looking for Mr. nice and the right is becoming more ant-state led by Dr. John MacArthur. Christians need to change their views on Romans 13 and the state. The church was targeted by the state.
Lipton Mathews explains Botswana has an institutional advantage over other African countries. Botswana has good property rights and limits rulers power. This led Botswana to become the fastest growing economy in the world. They also benefited from not being anti-white.
Dave Hebert of AIER says When private companies collude to fix prices, people are outraged but when government does it, they cheer them on. President Biden is colluding with 130 other countries to fix a 15% minimum corporate tax rate. Companies should be able to vote with their feet.
Doug Stuart of Libertarian Christian Institute talks about how the bible teaches we should treat foreigners fairly. The data shows the more people we have the wealthier we are. America has prospered from immigration. The bible is full of wonderful foreigners.
Short solo episodes showing that people are more rationale when they have individual choice and force and the lockdowns did not work
David Crego says many feel cancel culture is a witch hunt, however social pressure is useful in a civil society. Freedom of speech is important and people should be able to speak their mind. we need to decide when ostracization is just and when we need to fight against it.
Tony Francois discusses why so many people are leaving California. it is a failed state, not able to provide electricity or schooling. The high cost of living and leftists policies are factors. they heading past the mountain west to the east. The young are leaving too.
Dr. Antony P. Mueller discuses the Castro regime and the present protests. The U.S. embargo gave Castro political clout and only hurt the poor. Cuba has been kept alive from Soviet and Venezuela support. The fall of tourism and Venezuela has lead to unrest among the young.
Short solo episode bemoaning the fact my beloved Raiders are requiring a vaccine passport and how the vaccines are no longer voluntary because of too much government force.
William Luther discusses central bank digital currencies. They claim to be helping the unbanked . They say we need to get rid of cash to prevent crime and tax evasion. Inflation is just catching up. Everyone needs to stop using year to year growth rates until July of 2022
Sophia Spinazze says we have too many laws to have a just society. People can not follow the law and commit felonies unknowingly . Laws need to be precise and protect individual property. We need to get rid of legal plunder. We discuss Bastiat and the law.
Saul Zimet of FEE discusses the CDC failure to share data and had no rational plan. The CDC is an unfixable Bureaucracy and has no accountability. Central Planners are a menace to society. We need a free society response to pandemics in the future.
Dr. Michael Bednarczuk of the Institute for Justice discusses how beauty school students are taking on too much debt. These students usually come from low income families and will never be able to pay off the debt. Cosmetology workers are not a risk for public safety and should not need licensing. Occupational licensing is a war on the poor.
Robert F. Mulligan discusses Biden's infrastructure plan and all the pork congress is adding. They are expanding the I.R.S. and it's enforcement powers. Federal income taxes punish the middle class. we do need to better maintain our infrastructure. Wasteful spending is out of control.
Paul Edwards discusses the roots of the constitution and how it has always empowered the elite. The deep state and the war machine are running the country. The government has victimized Americans. The American empire is coming to an end.
Ray Niles says Cuomo is wrong for mandating vaccine passports and DeSantis is wrong for preventing them. Whether you show proof of vaccine should be up to individuals and businesses. Covid policy should empower individual rights and choices.
Randall Holcombe discusses Biden going after counties with lower taxes. We need intergovernmental competition, so we can vote with our feet. Having choices is essential for liberty. It is more important than private competition, because of the use of force.
Abigail R. Hall Blanco discusses the benefits of a needle exchange program. They reduce health risks and get more people into recovery. People should not be averse to the programs. We discuss the need to end the war on drugs. She explains why there are so few police convictions.
Byron Carson says people shop with Amazon because it benefits them. We need to be skeptical of claims that Amazon is exploiting workers and consumers. Amazon lowers transactions costs and makes other businesses better. We discuss whether Amazon benefited from lockdowns.
Dr. Mihai Macovei says protectionism did not decrease the trade deficit. China simply shipped goods into the U.S. indirectly. Biden's infrastructure plan emulates China. We need to stop emulating China and embrace the free market principles that made us wealthy.
Phil Magness says the Imperial College Predicted catastrophe in every country on earth. then the models failed. After selling lockdowns, Neil Ferguson broke his own lockdown. The data shows following the lockdown model did not stop the spread of the virus.
Short episode explaining why corporate America continues to benefit from government hand outs at the expense of your friends and neighbors businesses.
Raymond C. Niles talks about how government funding harms scientific integrity. Many scientists were afraid to speak out about the Wuhan Lab leak and against the lockdowns, because of fear of losing grants. Wuhan and lockdowns were politicized from the start.
My friend Anthony Castro discusses lockdowns in Honduras. He loss his restaurant business due to lockdowns and you could be arrested for simply leaving your home. the lockdowns failed and did not stop the virus. Mask mandates still remain.
Ron Stein and Todd royal discuss their new book Clean Energy Exploitations. The rare earth minerals are mined in countries with no environmental controls. They use slave labor to mine the minerals needed for clean energy. They call them blood minerals. it is cruel to deny poor countries oil.
short solo episode talking about millions of Americans not going back to work and millions more are planning to resign
Luke Wake of Pacific Legal foundation says the unintended consequence of the rent eviction moratorium will be bad for landlords and renters, We need to look at the costs and benefits of new regulations and regulations should have a sunset rule where they expire.
Patrick Barron says government is the ultimate tragedy of the commons. Fiat money creates massive resource depletion. We need to return to sound money or the economy is going to collapse .We need private money. Optout of public education.
L. Reichard White says having vice and drug laws finances gangs and increases violence. Regulations protect market share, not the people. The war's over, drugs won. Police need to return to being peace officers. Defund the Vice squad not the police.
Anthony Gill discusses civil society as an alternative to the state. We are far too quick to pull the trigger on government regulations. We should rely more on the sunshine of civil society to regulate behavior. Most of our actions are dictated by our cultural up bringing. Voluntary action is better than coercion.
Ethan Yang discusses that we have thousands of years of scholarly work on freedom. There is no way to deny that a free society is superior to all other systems. we go through the history of liberty. today freedom is under attach and we need to fight back.
Kristoffer Hansen says freedom lovers should be against El Salvador's bitcoin legal tender law. President Bukele is another keynesian big spender. Many Salvadorans won't have the technological capability for bitcoin. We need to get rid of legal tender laws.