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Joe Biden says recent Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment are dangerous. Hunter Biden could rely on those rulings to appeal his gun conviction. Whats going on here? Also, will young voters love President Biden because hes going after Ticketmaster while forgiving their student loans? And is it undemocratic for California voters to get to vote on the tax increases theyll pay? Graham Walker, Phillip Magness, and Williamson Evers discuss all this and more on this episode of Independent Outlook.
You can't have sound money without sound finances, says Judy Shelton, monetary economist, author of Money Meltdown, and former economic advisor to Donald Trump. In an exclusive interview with Daniela Cambone, Shelton explains the rationale behind a gold standard argument, detailing how issuing a gold-backed bond may be the pathway to it. I don't know how people talk about free trade without addressing currency gyrations and how they impact trade, she says. Additionally, she warns that the fate of the U.S. may be similar to what happened to the Soviet Union with insurmountable debt. Is the US still going to be here in 50 years? At the rate of the unsustainability in terms of the fiscal and monetary situation that you opened with, I don't see how. Tune in for this insightful discussion on the future of the U.S. economy and the potential return to a gold standard.
Why are all the campus protests so ideologically one-sided? Was Claudine Gay the tip of the iceberg on plagiarism? Is scientific objectivity passé among the faculty? And will all this educational malpractice lead to financial problems that will put colleges out of business?
Dr. Atlas interviews Harmeet Dhillon, a nationally recognized attorney whose focus is employment law, First Amendment rights, election law and commercial litigation. She is a trial lawyer and the managing partner at Dhillon Law Group in San Francisco. She's also CEO and founder of the Center for American Liberty and the co-chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association. They have a wide-ranging conversation about key issues like free speech, the current state of our system of justice and its politicization, and separation of powers essential to our government's function.
Campuses are overtaken by protest encampments, Jewish students are targeted, and higher ed leaders cant manage to condemn antisemitism while protecting free speech. But the problems go deeperlike the plagiarism that university faculty would never tolerate in their students. On other fronts, whats up with all these bans on lab-grown meat? And does the Biden administration understand how money works? Graham Walker, Phillip Magness, and Williamson Evers discuss all this and more on this episode of Independent Outlook.
Economist and author Phil Magness debunks a recent New York Times piece and shoddy academic work about the rich and their taxes. Phil Magnessan economic historian, author, and the David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy at the Independent Institutesays the work of Piketty and his circle of inequality-obsessed colleagues is deeply flawed and sometimes outright deceptive. He points out that billionaires do pay taxes...a lot of taxes. And the inequality literature is riddled with errors and bad statistics. Learn more on Reason.com
Judy Shelton, Independent Institute senior fellow, joins Squawk Box to react to Aprils PPI report, her expectations from the Fed, and more.
Independent Institute senior fellow Judy Shelton addresses the Fed's lack of 'intellectual diversity' on 'Making Money.'