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In Europe, just as in the US, governments have decreed that “not enough” people are buying EVs. Now the French government wants to force more EV sales.

If the government’s primary job were, as we’re taught, to protect the lives and property of the American people, then avoiding a nuclear exchange would be its single greatest priority. 

One does not need to be an advocate of open borders to have concerns when one hears about a federal law enforcement agency engaging in a “crackdown.”

While most of us are familiar with Gresham‘s Law, we should remember that it does not mean that bad money is preferred to good money. Instead, it refers to a situation in which government mandates that inferior and superior money legally have the same face value.

With the demise of the Biden administration, it is time to take a hard look at the DEI programs it imposed. While divisive, simple removal will not solve underlying problems.

With the election of Donald Trump, we are seeing repeated use of another F-word to describe the direction America is going: fascist. But is that what is happening in the US, or is the term fascist being thrown about in blind ignorance? These accusations need scrutiny.

As Joseph Schumpeter noted, markets need “creative destruction” to survive and advance. However, Europe‘s Digital Market Act (DMA)—while written to ostensibly protect competition—gives the digital economy uncreative destruction.

Modern academic economics is based upon the methodologies used to study the natural sciences. However, such methodologies are inappropriate to study economics, which must be based upon causal-realism.

Unfortunately, we find that today‘s MAGA economics is in many ways a retread of the failed supply-side economics of old.

Amy LePore joins Bob to talk about FEMA's poor track record in recent disasters but also going back to Hurricane Katrina.