Good News! James is back! The whole crew is reunited. Even our guest, Matthew Hennessey – a self-professed Ricochet nerd – was missing him. Matt's got a new book heading our way. It's called Visible Hand: A Wealth of Notions on the Miracle of the Market. Matthew proves to the hosts that Economics doesn't have to be mind-numbingly boring. (And our host who's had the pleasure of reading it goes so far as to say it belongs with Sowell and Friedman! Not too shabby.)

Also, Peter has some thoughts on the comparison of Joe Biden's "gaffe" to a certain well-known Reagan speech; and the guys managed the nearly impossible feat of talking about the Oscars with little emphasis on a slap-happy star.

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