Current Government Printing Is Going to Collapse The Economy

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, The Fed, U.S. Economy

04/17/2026 Jonathan Newman

VRIC Media host Darrell Thomas interviews Henry Hazlitt Research Fellow Dr. Jonathan Newman on the US fiscal spiral, war spending, and why deficits keep growing under a Fed-backed debt regime. Jonathan walks through public choice incentives, the Fed’s role as a de facto financier of federal deficits, and why “Fed independence” functions mainly as political cover. He closes with an Austrian case for ending the Federal Reserve.

The original interview is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OiIPVjXILU

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