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Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Government power and control can be explained in the form of an equation. It is negatively correlated with our level of liberty and freedom. The only way government acquires it is by taking it from us.
Unfortunately for government, in America, the default position (of the majority) is maximum liberty and freedom. In order to grow their power and control, they must steal our liberty and freedom or we sheepishly surrender it to them.
So called crises (both real and manufactured) are used as opportunities for government to extract our liberty and freedom.
Show Notes
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Truth Quest Podcast
Episode #211 – The Truth About Inflation in Under 15 Minutes
Episode #222 – The Truth About the Rescission of the First Amendment
Episode #228 – The Truth About the Twitter Files - The First Tranche
Episode #234 – The Truth About the Twitter Files - The Second Tranche
Episode #250 – The Truth About the Twitter Files - The Third Tranche
Episode #255 – The Truth About Government Censorship - Missouri v. Biden
Episode #266 – The Truth About the Ends Justify the Means
Episode #287 – The Truth About Democrats Battle with Reality
Secession:
Episode #87 - The Truth About Opposition to Secession - Part I
Episode #88 - The Truth About Opposition to Secession - Part II
Episode #110 - The Truth About How to Save America from Itself
Episode #128 - The Truth About Opposition to Secession
Episode #192 - A Practical Guide to State Secession
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Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
When Resident Biden came into office, the economy was set for a rebound as it came out of the Covid coma!
All the guy had to do was . . . NOTHING!!! Instead he (or whoever is really running the country) decided to only pursue policies that detrimentally impact the economy. This has resulted in something called "stagflation.”
In this episode we examine what that is, when we last experienced it and what can be done to rectify the situation.
Show Notes
Preparing for the Stagflation Storm
Investors Starting to Realize Stagflation Problem
Stagflation is here: Comparing the 2020's to the 1970's
Fed's Plan, Failing Stagflation Looms, Job Growth Stalls
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Episode #149 – The Truth About Vaccine Passports
Episode #157 – The Truth About the Covid-19 Vaccine
Episode #162 – The Truth About Nixon’s Closure of the Gold Window
Episode #163 – The Truth About the Unvaccinated
Episode #167 – The Truth About Ivermectin
Episode #170 – The Truth About the Supply Chain Disruptions
Episode #174 – The Truth About the Democrat's Vaccine Mandate
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Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
When Walter E. Williams passed away last week, the world lost a giant intellectual, prolific columnist, humorist, economist and preacher of the truth about free markets and the United States Constitution. He was a master communicator with an uncanny ability to make complex topics and theories understandable. Throughout his life, he demonstrated unwavering courage to stand up and tell the truth starting with his challenge of the U.S. Army and President John F. Kennedy over racial discrimination in the military while holding the lowly rank of Private!
He spent decades teaching economics at George Mason University and, along the way, blessed us with volumes of logic and common sense - some of which I share with you in this episode.
Show Notes
Walter Williams Best Moments
Walter E. Williams: Suffer No Fools
PragerU – Is Capitalism Moral?
Mark Perry - Walter E. Williams RIP
Walter Williams RIP - National Review
I Just Do My Own Thing: Walter Williams RIP
Future Prospects for Economic Liberty - Hillsdale Speech
Leonard Reed - Walter Williams Steadfast Scholar Missionary of Freedom
Walter E. Williams: Up From the Projects -
Wisdom: Walter Williams
How Walter Williams Helped Me Lose Job
Thomas Dilorenzo - Walter E. Williams RIP
WaltereWilliams.com - Amnesty Proclamation
An Evening With Dr. Walter Williams - John W. Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise
Daniel J. Mitchell
Walter Williams RIP
Walter Williams Freedom Fighter
In the Debate Over Capitalism and Morality the Score is Walter Williams 1 Pope Francis 0
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Episode #87 – The Truth About Secession - Part I
Episode #88 - The Truth About Secession - Part II
Episode #110 - The Truth About How to Save America from Itself
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Sunday Mar 29, 2020
Sunday Mar 29, 2020
As I record this episode in late March 2020, the world is living through the Coronavirus crisis. Recently my wife and I were discussing the toilet paper shortage. I explained that the reason there isn't any toilet paper now is because the stores did not raise the price when they saw a surge in demand. She argued that price gouging during a crisis is wrong and immoral. I tried to explain why it is actually a good thing. Full disclosure: She was not convinced. Hopefully you will be after listening.
We discuss some basic economic concepts like: What is a price and how do they fluctuate. Then we dive into the topic at hand - price gouging. This is followed by an examination of pandering politicians and price controls and the morality of price gouging. We wrap up the episode discussing the benefits of price gouging and whether or not these arguments hold up when a crisis is regional versus worldwide.
Show Notes
Bob Murphy - Hurricane Sandy and Gas Lines
John Stossel - Price Gouging
Walter E. Williams – Hillsdale College Speech
One or Two Cheers for Price Gougers; Three Cheers for Markets and No Cheers for Anti-Gouging Laws
Price Gouging Laws will do More Harm than Good During the Coronavirus Pandemic
A Primer on Price Gouging
Tom Woods Episode #987 - Price Gouging is Urgently Necessary
Words & Numbers Podcast - Price-Gouging Bans Don't Make Things Cheaper, They Make Them More Scarce.
Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell
Mises.org
Anti-gouging Laws are the Reason There is a Toilet Paper Shortage
3 Good Things about “Price Gouging
Price Gouging: A Life-Saving Market Mechanism
FEE.org
Greedy Capitalists Take Advantage of People in Natural Disasters
Texas Price Gougers are Hurricane Heroes
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