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Episode 109: Are You In the Global 1%?
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…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 108: Where Are They Now? The Disappearance of Mutual Aid Societies.
This week’s guest, David Beito, professor of History at the University of Alabama, discusses the functions, benefits, and undoing of mutual aid socie…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 107: Modern Monetary Theory The Government as Referee, Player, and Scorekeeper
This week, economist and theorist Warren Mosler joins James and Antony to explain the details of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). With 40 years of exper…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 106: Can Anti-Discrimination Laws Get Us Closer to a Meritocracy?
Discrimination happens every single day. Every human, in some way, makes a judgment about other humans and uses that judgment to discriminate, whethe…
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 105: The “Problem” with Billionaires
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 th…
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 104: “You Just Hate the Poor!” and Other Minimum Wage Misunderstandings
Fun fact: the profit margin for most businesses is about 8 percent. When you’re talking about categories like restaurants and retail stores, that m…
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 103: What Does “Necessary and Proper” Actually Mean?
Though the United States, as a constitutional republic, is considered to be a “limited government,” it often doesn’t feel that way. Washington keeps …
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 102: “Diversity” Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
The word “diversity” has become a sticky one. In the last fifteen years, a genuine “diversity industry” has sprung up, particularly at colleges and u…
7 years, 5 months ago
Episode 101: Fear Fuels Faulty Reasoning Regarding Rifles
Americans are pretty concerned about violent crime—particularly crimes committed with guns, “assault weapons” most specifically. This concern, statis…
7 years, 5 months ago
Episode 100: The Good Old Days Weren’t All That Good
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…
7 years, 5 months ago