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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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A lot of Millennials haven't experienced American prosperity, not as adults. Why do you think 90s nostalgia is so popular? Until Trump took office hard work just didn't pay off for most Millennials. This is what happens when one has a cheap labor policy for two decades: a rigid class system evolves, the young are screwed, and eventually corporate profits themselves will collapse as labor deflation drags down global demand and trade. Libertarians say we need open borders and free trade to be free as individuals, but history says otherwise.
It's like the damn gold standard. The Bretton Woods system took a great deal of government intervention to sustain, so much so that western elites in the 70s started talking about a global government that would harmonize national regulatory systems (this is what ultimately evolved into the EU). But in the U.S. Milton Friedman had a great flash of insight: all of these interventions could be done away with if the government was simply allowed to control the money supply. One single market intervention replaced hundreds of others--U.S. currency reform in the 70s and 80s is what made economic deregulation possible.
It's the same with borders. A world without borders leads to a lot more regulation, from rigid class systems rooted in public law to petty speech codes to bloated welfare systems. None of this is necessary if we just let the government control migration and trade. We can replace hundreds of regulations, from rent control to occupational licensing requirements to speech codes, with just two: regulation of immigration, and regulation of trade.
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