• Episode 404: Dangers of Democracy
    Nov 5 2024

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    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IEAMGSN
    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGRECPT
    https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-sources-revenue-federal-government
    https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/26/politics/trump-income-taxes-tariffs/index.html
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/27/bezos-washington-post-non-endorsement-election

    Foolishness of the Week

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/marine-veteran-temporarily-booted-off-delta-flight-wearing-threatening-shirt-report

    Topic of the Week

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    33 mins
  • Episode 403: Crime Data: Revising History?
    Oct 30 2024

    This week, we address listener comments that the FBI crime data we reported in an earlier episode was flawed.

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    https://brownox.com

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/427922503036846

    https://www.thefp.com/p/female-psychedelic-users-ketamine-mushroom-mommies

    Foolishness of the Week

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-arnold-palmer-closing-arguments-latrobe-pennsylvania-2bea9620c523e531a55259200215284e

    Topic of the Week

    https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

    https://www.allsides.com/story/violence-america-fbi-quietly-revises-2022-data-showing-45-rise-violent-crime

    https://crimeresearch.org/2024/10/the-revised-fbi-crime-data-reveals-that-it-originally-missed-1699-murders-in-2022-given-that-almost-all-murders-are-reported-how-does-the-fbi-miss-that-many-murders/

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    30 mins
  • Episode 402: Project Liberal
    Oct 23 2024

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    Topic of the Week

    https://www.projectliberal.org

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    32 mins
  • Episode 401: 20-to-1, Political Indoctrination in Higher Education
    Oct 16 2024

    Economist and author Bryan Caplan joins us to discuss how higher education has become a bastion of extreme leftist thought - so much so that professors that self-identify as Democrat outnumber professors that self-identify as Republican by 20-to-1.

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    Quick Hits

    https://nypost.com/2024/10/03/lifestyle/revealed-the-staggering-amount-of-time-gen-z-spends-watching-tv-during-the-workday/

    https://www.mediaite.com/politics/they-can-control-the-weather-claims-marjorie-taylor-greene-after-deadly-hurricane-helene-kills-more-than-200/

    Foolishness of the Week
    https://heartlandsignal.com/2024/10/04/minnesota-gop-senate-candidate-the-bad-guys-won-in-wwii/

    Topic of the Week
    https://www.betonit.ai/p/what-i-told-the-chronicle-about-gmu?fbclid=IwY2xjawFtLVxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUmRw4ov0NZ5pN2JTzgrac2GElz4Jlq726SyjO4IssKsGQVIuTmizkIwiw_aem_hum-GOp4PSfnPFs2owHXgg

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    38 mins
  • Episode 400: Population Problems
    Oct 9 2024

    It was just a couple of decades ago that experts were wringing their hands over the coming population explosion that was going to kill us all. Now they are wringing their hands over the coming population crash that is going to kill us all.

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    Quick Hits

    https://www.polygon.com/news/457071/new

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/derrick-anderson-photo-virginia-b2621414.html

    Foolishness of the Week

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/trump-watch-likely-made-in-china-overpriced-1236013728/

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    26 mins
  • Episode 399: Lying Politicians
    Oct 3 2024

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    Quick Hits

    https://cheezburger.com/36843013/employer-cancels-flexible-work-policy-after-employee-cuts-their-finger-at-home-cut-my-finger-working

    https://bjs.ojp.gov

    https://www.policemag.com/patrol/news/15310860/half-of-surveys-very-liberal-respondents-believe-1000-or-more-unarmed-black-men-killed-by-police-in-2019

    Foolishness of the Week

    https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a61793292/ford-cop-cars-speed-detector-patent/

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    27 mins
  • Episode 398: Alliteration Time: Trump, Tariffs, and Taxes
    Sep 25 2024

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    Quick Hits

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/politics/pope-francis-trump-harris-abortion/index.html

    Foolishness of the Week

    https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a61793292/ford-cop-cars-speed-detector-patent/

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    33 mins
  • Episode 397: More on the Fed
    Sep 20 2024

    This week, we address listener questions from our earlier episode on the Fed. We also make incorrect predictions about whether the September cut in interest rates.

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    Quick Hits
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/08/goodbye-tinder-hello-strava-have-hobby-apps-become-the-new-social-networks

    Foolishness of the Week
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/chase-bank-says-it-is-aware-of-viral-glitch-inviting-people-to-commit-check-fraud/ar-AA1pW1OW?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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    33 mins