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This week on America’s Most Beloved Podcast®, we meditate on the idea that Millennials (including one who was recently elected to Congress) feel as though they have never experienced American prosperity. Really. Then, the great Victor Davis Hanson joins to discuss his new book, The Case For Trump, and gets on a certain podcast host’s case for not…well, just listen. Finally, we call on Electoral College expert Tara Ross to explain why Senator Elizabeth Warren has no idea what she is talking about (it’s a 10 second long segment — KIDDING). Finally, we predict what the Mueller Report contains. Please leave your predictions in the comments below.
Note: the Lileks column that Rob referenced in the podcast is here.
Music from this week’s podcast: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (from the soundtrack to The Last Waltz) by The Band
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The 70s were about central bank “mistakes”. LBJ leaned on Arthur Burns for guns and butter. He knew it would end badly and it did.
Now we have asset bubbles and wider social problems instead of CPI inflation but it’s the same thing.
All of this is completely unnecessary.
I like Rob Long alot. I admire his writing and his thinking. But I have to observe that his anti-Trumpism this episode was weaksauce. “Trump is yucky so I don’t want to support him.” That’s the emotional pablum that leftists use all the time.
Conservative: Capitalism has always helped the poor and improved the environment whenever it has been tried.
Leftist: But it feels yucky.
Conservative: But… it helps poor people and in it’s best forms it protects the rights of minorities. Minorities always get screwed in feudal and especially in Communist systems.
Leftist: But it’s still yucky.
Conservative: How is it yucky if people live healtheir happier lives and create socities that contribute to the arts and sciences?
Leftist: Because I feel that way.
My small town was part of a local telephone exchange where about ten towns were connected. They must have been connected in some form of series because calls between towns directly connected were free but calls that had to hop cost some fee. Fortunately, we were near the middle and had two or three direct connects.
What percentage of your income went to the mortgage payment? Half?
If they were scheduling phone calls by mail, I think it had to be more than half.
Nobody cared about insulation in the 20s, just throw another tree on the fire…