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Episode 109: Are You In the Global 1%?
Season 1 Episode 109
Live from Scottsdale, Arizona! James Harrigan and Antony Davies contend that the median income in the US puts Americans in the top 1 percent in the world. What does that mean? Only that these peopl…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
Episode 108: Where Are They Now? The Disappearance of Mutual Aid Societies.
Season 1 Episode 108
This week’s guest, David Beito, professor of History at the University of Alabama, discusses the functions, benefits, and undoing of mutual aid societies. These private safety nets, like tontine fund…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
Episode 107: Modern Monetary Theory The Government as Referee, Player, and Scorekeeper
Season 1 Episode 107
This week, economist and theorist Warren Mosler joins James and Antony to explain the details of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). With 40 years of experience in finance and monetary operations, Mosler i…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
Episode 106: Can Anti-Discrimination Laws Get Us Closer to a Meritocracy?
Season 1 Episode 106
Discrimination happens every single day. Every human, in some way, makes a judgment about other humans and uses that judgment to discriminate, whether that be who they date, who they do business with…
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago
Episode 105: The “Problem” with Billionaires
Season 1 Episode 105
The Outrage Engine that is social media and op-eds has set its sights on a new target: billionaires. Apparently, being a billionaire is a bad, bad thing. Billionaires should sit down, shut up, and me…
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago
Episode 104: “You Just Hate the Poor!” and Other Minimum Wage Misunderstandings
Season 1 Episode 104
Fun fact: the profit margin for most businesses is about 8 percent. When you’re talking about categories like restaurants and retail stores, that margin drops to around 2 percent. Yet, some people …
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago
Episode 103: What Does “Necessary and Proper” Actually Mean?
Season 1 Episode 103
Though the United States, as a constitutional republic, is considered to be a “limited government,” it often doesn’t feel that way. Washington keeps churning out law after law regarding what the stat…
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago
Episode 102: “Diversity” Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
Season 1 Episode 102
The word “diversity” has become a sticky one. In the last fifteen years, a genuine “diversity industry” has sprung up, particularly at colleges and universities in the United States. Higher education…
Published on 6 years, 11 months ago
Episode 101: Fear Fuels Faulty Reasoning Regarding Rifles
Season 1 Episode 101
Americans are pretty concerned about violent crime—particularly crimes committed with guns, “assault weapons” most specifically. This concern, statistically speaking, is fairly irrational. You are fa…
Published on 6 years, 11 months ago
Episode 100: The Good Old Days Weren’t All That Good
Season 1 Episode 100
People like to talk about the “good old days” where everything used to be so much better than it is today. Everybody feels nostalgic on occasion, and it’s perfectly normal to misremember the past, bu…
Published on 6 years, 11 months ago