If someone has done a full and honest assessment of Bill Clinton's presidency, I would really like to see it. It is stunning how many ills Clinton's two terms in office inflicted, directly or indirectly, on the American people and the world. Some of the worst stuff...
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Episode 277: Why did the Housing Bubble Burst in 2008 w/ Gene Epstein
70 Minutes Rated PG-13 Economist Gene Epstein returns to the show to discuss the causes of the 2008 Housing Bubble. Gene does start off with a critique of Episode 273 which focused on objections to cryptocurrency. Gene is the founder of the Soho Forum debate series...
Episode 264: The 2008 Housing Bubble Explained
19 Minutes PG-13 Pete talked to co-writer and co-producer of the forthcoming documentary, "The Bubble," Jimmy Morrison. Jimmy started this project eight years ago and is on to talk about the finished product. He and Pete also riff a little on how they came to be...
SF Man Has Spent 4 Years and $1 Million Trying to Get Approval to Build Apartments on His Own Property
To understand how difficult and expensive it is to build housing in San Francisco, observe the case of Robert Tillman. Tillman owns a single-story laundromat in the city's Mission District. Since 2014, he has been attempting to develop his property into a 75-unit...
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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War
From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...
Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...