Cronyism and Corporatism

While progressives blame climate change for the deadly Lahaina fire, government created the conditions for the blaze and then helped set it.

The possible bankruptcy of Thames Water Company in Great Britain brings to mind the heady days 40 years ago when Margaret Thatcher's government was privatizing state-owned enterprises, including TW. Not all privatization stories have happy endings.

Free trade has its enemies on the left and the right. However, despite the supposed “sophistication” of their antitrade arguments, when we break them down, those arguments really are sophistry.

Many conservatives, in trying to steer the USA away from "wokeism," fail to understand that their “national greatness” schemes are just as harmful.

Matthew Mohlman and Tho discuss the need to build better alternatives to woke financial institutions, and the limit of political solutions to address the problem.

A number of Christian conservatives are claiming that markets are as coercive as government. Try boycotting the FBI or your local police the next time they do something outrageous.

Tho and Connor O'Keeffe discuss the role government incompetency played in the horrific tragedy of the Maui wildfires, as well as the bankruptcy of one of America's largest trucking companies. 

President Biden says he is going to unleash regulators to bring more "competition" to the economy. This is an oxymoron.

The Biden administration is unleashing the USDA on small farmers, attempting to regulate them out of business. This is done to protect not the public's health, but politically connected agriculture interests.

Recorded in Windham, New Hampshire, on August 20, 2023.