Potluck | Words & Numbers | Ep 518

This week Ant and James seem not to have much of a point, but that’s never stopped them before, and it sure didn’t stop them this week.

00:00 Introduction and Episode Preview
00:24 Caleb Hammer, Personal Finance, and Economic Hypocrisy
05:13 Thomas Jefferson, Hypocrisy, and Judging Ideas vs. People
10:00 Political Tribalism and Why People Stop Thinking Critically
14:46 Government Ownership of Corporations and Modern Socialism
20:51 Gas Prices, Oil Company Profits, and Government Taxes
26:43 Foolishness of the Week: The Reflecting Pool Fiasco
31:28 The 2028 Election, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and John Fetterman
33:48 Russia’s Nuclear Threats and the War in Ukraine
41:35 China, Population Collapse, and the Future of Global Power
49:18 Closing Thoughts

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Economist, speaker, author. Co-host of the Words & Numbers podcast. Senior Fellow at the Center for American Culture and Ideas.

Co-host of the Words & Numbers podcast, a frequent author, and lover of most things tobacco.

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