Afleveringen
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Californians will be in shock for a long time over the vast firestorms in Los Angeles. We donât yet know what ignited each fire. But Santa Ana winds are a regular, predictable, feature of regional weather. California environmentalism discourages clearing of public and private land, and stymies upgrades of water delivery systems. And Los Angeles recently trimmed back its firefighting budget by $18 million. âClimate changeâ is not the culprit.
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How will civil liberties survive Syriaâs convulsions? Do Trumpâs national security appointees form a coherent team? Why is healthcare taking the spotlight nowâŠbut in such a sick way? And what about Trumpâs economic team? Are these guys primed to deliver low inflation and prosperity? With special experts on deck, we discuss these questions and more on this episode of Independent Outlook.
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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Is the upcoming new presidential era finally our opportunity to slay the beast of inflation, shrink federal spending, and stabilize the value of our currency? We talk with Judy Shelton, Senior Fellow with Independent, former Trump nominee to the Fed Board, and author of a new book explaining how money is a âmoral contract between government and the citizensâ--and how its value can be decoupled from the whims of politicians and bureaucrats.
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In an election season, there are always personality issues, and everybody has personal favorites. But then there are policy issuesâand there are a lot of big ones on the table for the 2024 election: economic populism, inflation, immigration, abortion, higher ed, and more. In this episode, we give you our rough surveyâand short analysisâof the policy territory facing voters. Advance warning: policy wisdom does not line up neatly with one party or the other!
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In the wake of hurricanes, we need to ask an uncomfortable question: has federal flood insurance policy made the damage more extensive? The East Coast port workers strike is temporarily settled, but the effort to kill port automation is still on the table; does automation kill jobs? California and Minnesota are outlawing political AI deepfakes. Is this a victory against hate and disinformation? And what about Californiaâs new law banning legacy admission at even private colleges? We discuss these subjects and more on today's episode of Independent Outlook.
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Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, health care in America has not improved in the ways we were promised. In fact, inequalities in care have grown, and for many people health coverage is worse. But the errors can still be reversed. John C. Goodman's new book, Priceless: Curing the Health Care Crisis, maps out a better way, one that frees patients, doctors, and employers from the regulatory traps and perverse incentives that hold everybody back.
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Both our presidential candidates, and their policy teams, seem to be suffering from a bad case of economic illiteracy, in somewhat different ways ⊠or maybe not so different. With two aspiring leaders both saying they want to make things better for middle class and lower-income Americans, itâs pretty discouraging to see them advance economic policies that would actually make everybody worse off.
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The Supreme Court has been busy! By the end of June 2024, the Court had issued a welter of decisions ranging from presidential immunity to guns to federal agency regulatory power. In this episode of Independent Outlook, a variety of Independent Institute experts will give you the scoop, and a quick assessment of the most pivotal recent Supreme Court cases. Theyâll even argue with one another about them!
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A copy of a secret memo on national security issues has recently come into our hands, and we thought we should bring it to your attention! It tells the national security elite how to keep the public from balking at endless wars, and at the endless costs of the military-industrial complex. Well, actually, weâre publishing it as a book, so itâs not so secret. And, oh, by the way, the book is actually a satire! Join us for this episode of Independent Conversations, where we talk with the authors of this satirical bookâuh, that is, this secret memo.
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Joe Biden says recent Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment are dangerous. Hunter Biden could rely on those rulings to appeal his gun conviction. Whatâs going on here? Also, will young voters love President Biden because heâs going after Ticketmaster while forgiving their student loans? And is it undemocratic for California voters to get to vote on the tax increases theyâll pay? Graham Walker, Phillip Magness, and Williamson Evers discuss all this and more on this episode of Independent Outlook.
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Why are all the campus protests so ideologically one-sided? Was Claudine Gay the tip of the iceberg on plagiarism? Is scientific objectivity passé among the faculty? And will all this educational malpractice lead to financial problems that will put colleges out of business?
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Campuses are overtaken by protest encampments, Jewish students are targeted, and higher ed leaders canât manage to condemn antisemitism while protecting free speech. But the problems go deeperâlike the plagiarism that university faculty would never tolerate in their students. On other fronts, whatâs up with all these bans on lab-grown meat? And does the Biden administration understand how money works? Graham Walker, Phillip Magness, and Williamson Evers discuss all this and more on this episode of Independent Outlook.
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Trump tried tariffs, he wants to try them some more, in order to help workers; whatâs wrong with that? California wants to help workers by enforcing a new âfast foodâ wage law; what could go wrong? Hint in both cases: things can backfire. Did RFK, Jr. get the hint? Probably not, but heâs sure railing loudly against the perils of Big Government. These issues and more animate the conversation among Graham Walker, Phillip Magness, and Williamson Evers.
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When a state, like Texas or Florida, tries to protect peopleâs free speech rights against biased social media companies, is the state then violating the free speech rights of the social media companies? Howâs President Biden doing at shrinking inflation? And whatâs going on with Alabamaâs IVF laws?
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Ever wonder why California gas prices are perpetually higher than in other states? Or why residential real estate in California is overwhelmingly more expensive than elsewhere? Or why wildfires got so out of control in recent years? Or why a visit to a California DMV office has been such an ordealâbut is maybe a bit better in recent years?
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Whatâs behind the ugly antisemitism on campuses and elsewhere that surged up after the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023? The viciousness against Jews took a lot of people by surprise, but it did not surprise Dr. Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The New American Anti-Semitism. He talks with Independentâs Graham Walker about the book in this episode of Independent Conversations.
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In this episode of Independent Conversations, historians Amity Shlaes and David Beito discuss FDR's policies of Japanese internment, spying on Americans, and violations of free speech and reveal a troubling portrait of FDR much different from the standard orthodoxy found in todayâs historical studies.
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Will free speech in America end up being a casualty of the war between Hamas and Israel? What does the domestic American DEI industryâs posture on the war reveal about their ideology? On other fronts, do we need to regulate Artificial Intelligence and how about banning TikTok? And why is Josh Hawley teaming up with Bernie Sanders to attack Citizens United?
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When the feds lean on social media firms to take down alleged misinformation, it turns out thatâs government censorshipâaccording to the Federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. That ruling is worth celebrating, but there are cautionary side issues. Also, it looks like weâre heading into another round of debt ceiling crisis. Some say the President is constitutionally obliged to ignore any limits and spend more than the government takes in. Hmmm. We discuss these issues, and more, in this episode of Independent Outlook.
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