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Brendan McAdams and Bob Graham have quick (10-18 min) chats about early-stage startups, sales fundamentals, and other quick tips and ideas for the B2B startup founder.
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Tom Mullen has been writing about freedom for over a decade. He is the author of Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? and A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America. His writing has been featured in Newsweek, The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, RealClear Markets, The Daily Caller, LewRockwell.com, 321 Gold! and The Foundation for Economic Education. Now, Tom is bringing his ...
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Summary: The American fairy tale says the so called “free press” hold the government accountable and informs the public so they can make informed political decisions. In reality, not only does the news media misinform the public, the public would make better political decisions if no news media existed at all. Tom makes that case on today’s episode…
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Summary: The media tell us the Trump administration has expended tremendous effort trying to “mediate” between the Ukrainian and Russia governments to bring about an end to the Ukraine War. Time magazine reports that Putin missed a chance to swing the U.S. to his side when relations cooled between Trump and Zelensky. Daniel McAdams joins Tom to exp…
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Summary: Libertarians and other free market advocates tend to dismiss Trump’s tariff policy out of hand as simply economically ignorant mercantilism. But the policy advisors around Trump are not ignorant of free trade arguments but rather are highly credentialed economists whose true arguments must be first understood before being refuted. Austrian…
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Summary: Many people are debating the effects of Trump’s tariffs on traditional free trade vs. protectionism grounds. But Peter Schiff says no one is talking about what artificially reducing trade deficits with tariffs may do to the U.S. dollar and U.S. bonds. Guest Bio: Peter Schiff is the Senior Economist and Chief Market Strategist for Euro Paci…
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Summary: President Trump has designated April 2, 2025 “Liberation Day,” as he claims the reciprocal tariffs he imposes on American importers will make the rest of the country freer. But tariffs don’t make a country freer or richer and aren’t beneficial even as a response to like treatment from trading partners. As have conservatives throughout Amer…
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Summary: Pundits constantly refer to a supposedly binary “political spectrum” with extreme conservatism on one end and extreme liberalism on the other. Often libertarians are talked about as if they fall somewhere between these two extremes. But this is a false paradigm. Conservatives, libertarians, and the people we now call “liberals” have three …
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Summary: The stock market has entered correction territory and financial pundits wonder if a recession is coming. Are Trump’s tariffs to blame? Mises Institute economists Jonathan Newman, Ph.D joins Tom to discuss the economy, recession fears, Trump’s policies, and the business cycle. Guest Bio: Dr. Jonathan Newman is a Fellow at the Mises Institut…
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Summary: In order to deport illegal immigrants who belong to criminal gangs more expeditiously, President Trump has invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. His premise in justifying using this due process workaround is that the state of illegal immigration and its related maladies like drug trafficking constitute a war. Federal judges have ruled agains…
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Summary: It has been five years since the federal and most state governments announced American society would be shut down for “two weeks to flatten the curve.” What followed was a series of atrocities that were immoral, unscientific, unjustified, and completely ineffective. The Covid Regime must not be allowed to stand. Links: Watch this episode o…
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Summary: DOGE has dominated the news with its recommended cuts to the federal budget. But most people have no idea how most of the $7 trillion per year is spent or how it's funded. Tom breaks down federal spending and tax revenues to clarify where the money comes from and where it goes. Links: Watch this episode on YouTube The Budget and Economic O…
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Summary: President Trump made good on his promise to Libertarians to pardon Ross Ulbricht, given a life sentence by the government for creating a website. Jacob Hornberger joins Tom to discuss the case for similarly pardoning Ian Freeman, the popular libertarian radio personality who was similarly prosecuted by the government for crimes he did not …
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Summary: The administrative state has waged a war against automobiles for decades, its intensity increasing exponentially with each new Democratic president. They have regulated full-size sedans out of existence and soon will do the same for all internal combustion engine vehicles if they are not stopped. Only those affluent enough to afford electr…
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Summary: Tom appears on the Rand Paul Review webcast, hosted by Kurt Wallace, to discuss RFK, Jr., Trump, tariffs, and all things liberty movement. Links: Watch the video version of this interview Free Gifts from Tom: Get a free copy of It’s the Fed, Stupid at itsthefedstupid.com! Learn more about the philosophical differences between conservatives…
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Summary: Everyone is talking about tariffs, which very well could pop the post-Covid bubble. But there are at least two other economic land mines lurking that could cause an economic crisis and blow up Trump’s agenda. Links: Episode 183 Economics was invented to refute Trump’s tariff arguments Explaining Malinvestment and Overinvestment Is the Fed …
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Summary: Since Summer 2023, the Federal Reserve has been reducing its balance sheet and thus reducing the base money supply available to member banks. However, the $2 trillion that has flowed out of the money supply during this “tightening” has been matched dollar for dollar by money flowing back into the economy from the Reverse Repo Market. Now, …
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Summary: As part of his agenda to halt the mass migration of illegal immigrants into the United States, President Trump signed an executive order indicating the administration’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment as not extending citizenship to children born in the United States to mother’s who are here illegally or on a temporary visa if the fat…
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Summary: The popular television series Yellowstone raises interesting questions about property rights. Who has the best claim to the land that comprises the Yellowstone ranch? The Duttons? The developers? Or the Native Americans? Most people will be surprised by Tom’s answer. Links: Watch Yellowstone on Amazon Prime A Short History of Man: Progress…
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Summary: December is upon us and that means plentiful opportunities to watch the enduring classic, It’s a Wonderful Life. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of viewers completely misinterpret Frank Capra’s dystopian nightmare as a heartwarming Christmas tale. The emotional appeal of angels getting their wings is undeniable. Crying out for cor…
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Summary: Eric Margolis has been covering the Middle East for five decades, including the Lebanese Civil War, the Mujahedeen war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, and the 21st century “war on terror.” He joins Tom to share his insights on the recent collapse of the Assad government in Syria. Guest Bio: Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, in…
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Summary: In a stunning development in the waning days of the Biden administration, Syria has fallen to the rebels, Assad has fled to Moscow, and the Russian Navy has evacuated its long held port at Tartus. Did Putin sacrifice Syria in exchange for an end to western funding for Ukraine? Links: Earth to Washington, D.C.: Russia will never give up por…
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Summary: A man who health insurance claims were denied apparently became so overcome with misdirected resentment and rage that he murdered the CEO of United Healthcare in cold blood. Worse yet, many on the left are applauding his crime. Healthcare is certainly broken, but it’s 100 percent the result of government intervention. Links: Why a free mar…
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Summary: In the wake of President-elect Trump’s victory in the November elections, the Biden administration has further escalated NATO’s involvement in the Ukraine War by approving providing Ukraine with long-range missiles for airstrikes within Russia. Trump says he wants to end the conflict starting on day one of his administration, but has again…
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Summary: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy promise to vastly reduce government inefficiency in the administrative state. But the problem isn’t just that there are too many bureaucrats doing a poor job. It’s that the entire idea of regulation as performed by those agencies is antithetical to America’s most basic principles. People have a right to buy an…
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Summary: Author, humorist, and conservative publicist extraordinaire A.J. Rice joins Tom to talk about the 2024 presidential election and his new book, The White Privilege Album: Bringing Racial Harmony to Very Fine People…On Both Sides. Links: The White Privilege Album: Bringing Racial Harmony to Very Fine People…On Both Sides Publius National Pos…
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Summary: The story of the Plymouth Colony contains an important lesson that most Americans never learned because what we’re taught about the Pilgrims in school, like what we’re taught about the Jamestown Colony and much of American history in general, is fraught with distortions, omissions and outright lies. Links: The Thanksgiving Day deception: E…
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Summary: Many of Trump’s promises, such as cutting taxes, removing restrictions on fossil fuels, and cutting the size and power of the administrative state, will greatly benefit Americans. But his promised tariffs will make Americans poorer, as all economic history has shown. Links: Economics Was Invented to Refute Trump’s Tariff Arguments Our Hist…
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Summary: Trump’s picks for HHS Secretary (RFK, Jr.) and FDA director (Marty Makary, MD) were both vocal opponents of Covid lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates while those interventions were occurring. But will Americans finally be told the truth about them while Trump is president? Links: Dr. Martin Makary Testimony-Government Disinforma…
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Summary: One could not be blamed for pessimism about America’s future after the public’s complete acquiescence to the atrocities committed by their governments in 2020. But do Trump’s victory and the public’s wholesale rejection of the legacy media represent new hope for liberty? Links: MSNBC ratings plunge after Trump election victory — as more th…
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Summary: Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s Morning Joe made a trip to Mar a Lago to meet with President-elect Trump. Takes are numerous, with liberals decrying their betrayal while conservatives either celebrate their surrender or call them out as self-serving hypocrites. But their account of the meeting, and in particular one thing Mi…
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Summary: Trump’s victory in the presidential election was as much a rejection of the legacy media as the Biden administration’s policies. But Trump’s lawsuits could give them new life by allowing them to make a superficially plausible argument he is suppressing freedom of the press. Links: Trump sues media outlets in $10bn lawsuit What Trump’s win …
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Summary: In 2016, Trump ran on an America First foreign policy and promised to keep the U.S. out of unnecessary wars. But he filled his administration with neoconservatives who didn’t agree with his foreign policy agenda and undermined it time and again. Surely, he wouldn’t make the same mistake in his second term, would he? Links: Who are Trump’s …
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Summary: Americans are increasingly concerned about the history being taught to students in our schools and universities. From the Pilgrims through the so-called “Progressive Era,” the school system teaches our students a skewed version of history where freedom is always the problem and government intervention the solution. It should come as no sur…
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Summary: Since the end of WWII, the conservative movement has been dominated by foreign policy hawks, initially anti-communist and later neoconservative (“neocon”). But there was a completely different conservative movement that existed during the first half of the 20th century retrospectively known as “The Old Right.” Do Trump and the broader MAGA…
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Summary: Donald Trump has done the seemingly impossible. After enduring a four-year assault on his presidency including a two-year investigation into spurious accusations of “colluding with Russia” and two impeachements, followed by four more years of politically motivated prosecutions and two assassination attempts, he is returning to the White Ho…
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Summary: On Election Day 2024, Tom considers whether he will vote for a major party candidate for president for the first time in his life. Links: Federal Receipt and Outlay Summary Episode 173 The Libertarian Case for Chase Oliver Episode 172 The Libertarian Case for Trump Free Gifts from Tom: Download a free copy of Tom's e-book, It’s the Fed, St…
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Summary: In 2022, the Libertarian Party was taken over by the Mises Caucus, promising to bring “the Ron Paul version” of libertarianism to the party. With its members occupying virtually positions within the party, including the Chair, it expected its preferred candidate Michael Rectenwald to win the nomination for president. However, non-Mises Cau…
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Summary: Whether libertarians like it or not, either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will be President of the United States in late January 2025. While one can refuse to vote for either on principle, that won’t protect the nonvoter from the winner’s policies. Is there a libertarian case Trump is the better alternative? Links: Trump Isn’t Hitler; He’s…
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Summary: The proponents of anthropomorphic climate change present it as a new threat to the planet created by industrialization. In reality, this is an age old scam operating on the same blueprint as the meat packing myth and perpetrated by the same people. Links: Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—…
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Summary: In what has become a worn-out mantra, both major parties are telling us the 2024 presidential election is “the most important of our lifetimes.” But is the supposed political divide between the American right and left as wide as we’re led to believe? Links: Federal Receipt and Outlay Summary Is Trump Against the Administrative State or For…
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Summary: Felony convictions impose considerable disabilities on those convicted that include owning firearms and being prohibited from holding public office. Do Trump’s convictions prohibit him from running for president? From being sworn in? Attorney James Ostrowski joins Tom to discuss. Also, Jim relates his firsthand experiences at the 2024 Libe…
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