Ryan McMaken discusses his recent articles for the Mises Institute about the future of U.S. dollar hegemony. He walks us through the dollar's history as global reserve currency, which began in the mid 20th century as an alternative to a direct gold standard. Still,...
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Subprime Loans Will Be Back with a Vengeance in 2020
One of the lasting legacies of the economic collapse a decade ago is subprime. After lying dormant for several years in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the subprime market has returned with a vengeance. Everything is subprime nowadays, as banks, finance...
1/10/20 Andy Worthington on Closing Guantanamo Bay
Scott talks to Andy Worthington about Guantanamo Bay, where dozens of prisoners are still detained without charges under suspicion of involvement in terrorism. Worthington reminds us that President Obama campaigned on closing the prison, but quickly gave up after...
1/10/20 Grant Smith on the Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board
Grant Smith discusses his new book, The Israel Lobby Enters State Government, which tells the scandalous story of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, a branch of the Virginia state legislature tasked with promoting Israeli business interests in the state. Unlike a...
1/10/20 Gareth Porter on Mike Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Gareth Porter joins Scott once again to discuss what he calls Mike Pompeo's "Gulf of Tonkin incident." In the real Gulf of Tonkin incident, McNamara intentionally misled President Johnson in order to incite war between the U.S. and North Vietnam. Porter says that...
1/10/20 Cliff Maloney on Waking Americans up to the Liberty Message
Cliff Maloney of Young Americans for Liberty talks about the disaster of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and how to bring more Americans around to the antiwar position. Luckily, he says, a great majority of people already oppose the wars in Iraq and...
‘If You Want Liberty, Go Live In The African Bush…
... otherwise you're just a LARPer not willing to do what needs to be done to be free.' Yes, that is an "actual argument" from a Brit on Twitter. Imagine the level of Stockholm Syndrome you must be suffering to believe that people who desire liberty must live like...
1/10/20 Robert Naiman on the new War Powers Resolutions
Scott talks to Robert Naiman about the efforts in congress and the senate to oppose the war in Yemen and stymie any escalation in a conflict with Iran. Naiman is optimistic that a concurrent resolution against the war in Yemen, which Trump cannot veto, will have...
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