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Episode 309: Liabilities, Rights, the Commerce Clause, and Significance
This week, we answer listener questions about unfunded liabilities, different types of rights, what would happen if the Supreme Court overturned the …
3 years, 5 months ago
Episode 308: The Pursuit of Wealth
Pope Francis devoted his Christmas homily to speaking out about the evils of pursuing wealth. This week, James and Ant share their different takes on…
3 years, 5 months ago
Episode 307: Listener Questions: Central Banking, National Divorce, and Public Companies
Listener questions this week include: What are the benefits of central banking? Is it time for the states to have an amicable divorce? What would it …
3 years, 5 months ago
Episode 306: Listener Questions: Contagion, Lawsuits, and Socialism, Pt. 1
This week, listeners ask whether it’s right to think of contagion as pollution, and if so, whether government has a role in containing contagion, why…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 305: How Did We Get Here?
Over the past century, three constraints on the federal government have failed. When we started ignoring Constitutional constraints, we opened the do…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 304: Good and Bad Regulations
Whether regulations are a good thing or a bad thing is a more complicated question than it appears. Government can regulate through law. But consumer…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 303: Ronald Reagan
Our greatest immediate concerns are the combination of inflation and recession, and the threat of war with Russia. The United States faced this combi…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 302: Population Growth
Last week, we talked about the world population crossing the 8 billion mark. This week, we look at a related topic, population growth. We find the in…
3 years, 7 months ago
Episode 301: 8 Billion
The world population crossed the 8 billion mark this week. As far back as at least the late 1700s, experts were predicting that overpopulation would …
3 years, 7 months ago
Episode 300: Economic Inequality in America
For our 300th episode, Senator Phil Gramm joins us to talk about his recent book on income inequality in America. The disturbing thing is that the go…
3 years, 7 months ago