Words & Numbers

Spike Cohen, 2020 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential nominee, joins us this week for a two part series in which we discuss the upcoming election, the Libertarian Party, the future of politics in America, and his work in single-issue activism - You Are the Power.

Foolishness of the Week: 11:05
Main episode: 13:14

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https://masoncore.gmu.edu/mason-core-course-categories/just-society/

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/11/nearly-half-of-parents-financially-support-adult-children-study-shows.html

Foolishness of the Week
https://www.mediaite.com/news/tucker-carlson-already-pushing-stolen-election-conspiracy-theories-about-2024/

Topic of the Week
https://www.youarethepower.net

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Cohen

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The United States has been a two party system almost since its inception. In modern times, this has led to the Democrats and Republicans having a virtual monopoly on the political landscape. Despite the fact that a plurality of Americans don’t identify with either party, they won’t allow a third party to compete. And what’s the only thing worse than a two-party system? A one-party system.

Foolishness of the Week: 06:08
Main episode: 09:41

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https://archive.triblive.com/opinion/featured-commentary/in-defense-of-price-gouging/
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/01/the-us-national-debt-is-rising-by-1-trillion-about-every-100-days.html

Foolishness of the Week
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/ezra-klein-biden-audio-essay.html

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Last week, we recorded live from Hampden-Sydney College. This week’s episode is the Q&A from that recording.

Foolishness of the Week: 09:21
Main episode: 10:05

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https://studyfinds.org/is-everyone-angry-toxic-outrage-culture-consuming-society-like-never-before/

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13119241/Trump-threatens-biggest-stock-market-crash-HISTORY-loses-Biden-claims-five-things-DOJ-investigate-Haley-wild-speech-MAGA-fans-South-Carolina-primary.html

Topic of the Week

https://www.hsc.edu

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Last week, we talked about the incongruity of not only having a majority of voters not like either major party candidate, but to have those two candidates appear twice in back-to-back elections. This week, we explore what happens when a President is incapable of fulfilling the duties of the office.

Foolishness of the Week: 11:01

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Foolishness of the Week
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/15/barbara-lee-minimum-wage/72611446007/

Topic of the Week

https://www.hsc.edu

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Last week, we talked about the incongruity of not only having a majority of voters not like either major party candidate, but to have those two candidates appear twice in back-to-back elections. This week, we explore what happens when a President is incapable of fulfilling the duties of the office.

Foolishness of the Week: 09:59
Main episode: 12:50

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Foolishness of the Week
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/taylor-swift-biden-psyop-conspiracy-b2489364.html

Topic of the Week
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-25/

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The Trump vs Biden election of 2020 was noteworthy because, for so many voters, it wasn’t a matter of selecting the person they thought was best suited for the job so much as a matter of selecting the person they thought was least ill-suited. As if it isn’t weird enough that, out of 200 million or so adults, the best we could do was to bring Trump and Biden to the fore, here we are in 2024 apparently set to do the same thing all over again.

Foolishness of the Week: 09:10
Main episode: 13:33

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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/06/trump-election-case-appeals-court-denies-ex-president-immunity.html

Foolishness of the Week
https://studyfinds.org/mixed-reality-headsets/

Topic of the Week
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/biden-trump-campaign-longest-ever-age-7e849b34
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102189/voter-turnout-us-presidential-primaries-state/

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People used to scared about the federal debt. But it's been so huge for so long that people have lost interest. Yet, despite people's lack of attention - or perhaps, in part, because of it - the debt has continued to grow. For the past 50 years or so, it has been doubling every 8 to 9 years.

Foolishness of the Week: 09:10
Main episode:  13:36

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https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/12/06/new-fafsa-may-launch-with-old-inflation-data-resulting-in-less-college-aid.html?fbclid=IwAR1Z0ny8wwaMEEA0nyaJGxEGF3Hvbeq9XtAJpVmQLYtfyMdKNmDS-loexes

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/27/is-the-journalism-death-spasm-finally-here-00138187

Foolishness of the Week

https://nypost.com/2024/01/26/news/un-fires-staffers-who-allegedly-took-part-in-october-7-hamas-terrorist-attacks-on-israel/

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Many people share an intuition that “excess” profits are a sign of something having been stolen from labor. Karl Marx shared this intuition and formalized it in his writings on the surplus value of labor.

Foolishness of the Week: 05:48
Main episode: 11:55

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https://studyfinds.org/childless-millennials-parents/

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits

Topic of the Week

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN

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For whom does the corporation exist: investors, workers, customers, the community? Economists tend to answer, "investors." That's not to say that workers, customers, and the community aren't important, but rather that the corporation exists to further the interests of the investors. Where the interests of the workers, customers, and community coincide with those of investors, the corporation also cares about those groups. But where their interests conflict with those of investors, the interests of investors take precedence. That's the principle of "shareholder value." The principle of "stakeholder value" holds that the corporation should consider the interests of workers, consumers, and the community even when they conflict with the interests of the investors.

Foolishness of the Week: 08:15
Main episode: 12:29

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Foolishness of the Week

 https://www.axios.com/2024/01/11/florida-book-ban-schools-lawsuit

Topic of the Week

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Economic "degrowth" seems to be the new socialism. Like the old, it promises all manner of wonderful things, from equality to a cleaner environment. And like the old, it will deliver nothing but misery.

Foolishness of the Week: 10:24
Main episode: 13:35

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https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S6-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013300/

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/politics/lloyd-austin-hospitalization-officials/index.html/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secretary-defense-lloyd-austin-hospitalized-middle-east-missions-rcna132612/

Topic of the Week

https://theconversation.com/degrowth-slowing-down-rich-economies-to-deal-with-climate-change-is-a-flawed-idea-209434

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/17/degrowth-economics-europe-climate-policy/

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Intuitively, people understand the value of time. We consider it every time we decide to put off something we want now for something better later. Psychologists call it, “delayed gratification.” But when we think about things like banks and landlords and Wall Street, we fail to see the time value of money driving people’s behaviors.

Foolishness of the Week: 14:15
Main episode: 18:13

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www.wfla.com/news/dave-chappelle-ends-show-early-walks-off-stage-at-hard-rock-live/

Foolishness of the Week
www.wsj.com/articles/yellen-biden-economy-inflation-prices-dc9902f2

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Colleges and universities, for years now self-proclaimed bastions of “safe spaces,” are allowing some students to express anti Semitism and call for genocide. Should colleges allow this in the name of free speech, or should it disallow it in the name of protecting students? Congressional hearings into prominent universities appear to reveal administrators picking a third and worse option: selectively allowing or disallowing free speech depending on at whom the speech is directed.

Foolishness of the Week: 08:15
Main episode: 11:36

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Foolishness of the Week

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/sorry-but-potatoes-may-soon-no-longer-be-considered-a-vegetable/ar-AA1lRk50

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We respond to an article that claims that “the good life” has become so expensive as to be beyond the reach of most Americans. We conclude that what is beyond the reach of at least some Americans is the ability to perform simple math.

Foolishness of the Week: 05:33
Main episode: 09:16

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 Foolishness of the Week

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/electric-vehicle-ev-guilbeault-1.7061381

Topic of the Week

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-dream-cost-3-4-million-house-college-cars-retirement/

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

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More frequently, politicians are talking about a wealth tax. As with the income tax back in the early 1900s, politicians promise that the tax will only be one or two percent and will only apply to the rich. But, as with the income tax, if politicians can convince voters to allow the government to impose a tax on wealth, it will be less than a decade before that new tax hits the middle class.

Foolishness of the Week: 15:15
Main episode: 19:45

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https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes111011.htm

https://www.reuters.com/business/ceo-pay-averaged-167-million-last-year-sp-500-companies-decline-2023-08-03/

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sports-illustrated-publisher-fires-ceo-latest-exec-terminations-ai-sca-rcna129236/

Topic of the Week

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A new outbreak of a communicable disease in China has officials there calling for masks and social distancing. This week, we talk about what lessons we learned from the last go around and how people might respond in this country to a reprise of social distancing and masking. 

Foolishness of the Week: 07:23
Main episode: 11:23

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https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/one-supreme-court-case-could-mess-up-chunks-of-the-tax-code-680a9ba6

Foolishness of the Week

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1730211325383434419

https://nypost.com/2023/03/20/bidens-twitter-account-fact-checked-for-dubious-claim-about-the-taxes-billionaires-pay/

Topic of the Week
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/chinas-mystery-virus-sees-masks-31550470/

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We recently moderated the South Carolina Libertarian Party’s Presidential debate. We had a great time and the candidates were serious people. But the contrast between our excellent experience in South Carolina and Libertarian party hijinx we’ve seen in the past spurred this conversation. Is the Libertarian Party a political party or a philosophical society? The latter’s goal is to delve deeply into important questions about the economy and polity. The former’s goal is to win elections.

Foolishness of the Week: 08:37
Main episode: 14:05

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Foolishness of the Week

https://twitter.com/senwarren/status/1728810999355175212?s=61&t=8nzVImSVQ7S_6JhDtCXr0Q

Topic of the Week

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Three former professors discuss the fraud that universities are perpetrating on students and taxpayers..

Foolishness of the Week: 11:59
Main episode: 15:20

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Over ten years ago, we predicted that, as the Federal government approached insolvency, the Federal Reserve would start printing money to monetize the government spending, and that that would give us sustained inflation in the 5% plus range. We saw the 5% plus inflation and, as the Fed fought it, we then saw interest rates skyrocket. Trillion dollar plus deficits are the new normal, Social Security is within a decade of becoming insolvent, and that will mean even more borrowing. It appears that people are just now becoming aware of the problem. Unfortunately, it's almost too late to do anything about it.

Foolishness of the Week: 07:46
Main episode: 14:20

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An elderly couple, an antiques dealer, and an African mask spark a conversation about fraud, fairness, and value.

Foolishness of the Week: 11:00
Main episode: 13:14

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/canadian-food-prices-passing-the-depreciated-buck/

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Composer and musician Josh Nichols was annoyed when, on an earlier episode, James referred to “high culture,” and Ant said, “you mean the snooty stuff?” Being a classical composer and, importantly, making money at it, Josh joins us to set the record straight as to why we should all be more appreciative of “the snooty stuff.”

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Josh Nichols
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Metropolis
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