Scott Moody and his wife Wendy Warcholik are the proud parents of five children, and they chose to raise them in New Hampshire, particularly because of the favorable economic environment. However, as they saw the demographic decline of New England, they became aware of many more ingredients that went into making healthy families. Thus they utilized their economics backgrounds to come up with an index of family success, one that identifies the most successful states that are defying the breakup of the nuclear family.

Shownotes: http://goldnewsletter.com/podcast/new-index-reveals-best-states-to-raise-a-family/.

Raul del Toro is the Renegade Third Worlder, and his objective is to blow the lid on the sugar-coated coverage of impoverished countries such as his native Venezuela. He doesn't want the United States to fall to their level, and he has started a blog to support a triumphant and proud land of the free.

Show notes: http://goldnewsletter.com/warning-to-america-from-the-third-world/.

University tuition rates across the United States have rocketed upward in recent decades, but that has been to pay for more administrative staff, not more tenured faculty. As campuses offer bells and whistles, the public are growing more skeptical of conventional higher education, and Jenna Robinson tells us why. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she is the president of the Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

Show notes: http://goldnewsletter.com/podcast/jenna-robinson-the-higher-education-arms-race/.

The United States has a reputation for being the incarceration nation, but is that deserved? Daniel D'Amico, associate director of the Political Theory Project at Brown University and a lecturer of economics, pokes holes on the common explanations and notes that the rising tide of incarceration is not distinct to the United States.

Show notes: http://goldnewsletter.com/daniel-damico-myth-versus-reality-of-mass-incarceration/.

There is a battle on two fronts that is circling and tightening the strings on cash for transactions. Both intellectual figureheads and policymakers are limiting particular uses of cash and, in some cases, banning high denominations.

Lawrence White of George Mason University takes a look behind the scenes and applies the "Baptists and bootleggers" analogy. There are the true believers, and then there are those who stand to profit.

Show notes: http://goldnewsletter.com/podcast/the-war-on-cash-cui-bono/.

The Canadian foreign minister has threatened retaliation if the Trump administration imposes a tariff on imports from the north. Meanwhile, Trump has said he will cancel NAFTA unless there is significant renegotiation of the treaty. Add the budding wall with Mexico, and an unpredictable trade war looms.

Our specialist is the president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, the go-to think tank in the Atlantic provinces of Canada. Marco Navarro-Génie fled Nicaragua in his youth and rose up the ranks of academia, before jumping ship and finding his home in policy research.

Show notes: http://goldnewsletter.com/podcast/marco-navarro-genie-no-one-wins-a-trade-war/.

The Odebrecht scandal has rocked Latin America with its breadth, implicating 500 elected officials across the region. Andrés González of San Francisco University of Quito, Ecuador, says that while corruption may remain with us, the rules of the game have changed. This is just the tip of the iceberg waiting to be uncovered, and the old deference towards corruption is fading fast.

Show notes: http://goldnewsletter.com/podcast/andres-gonzalez-the-jig-is-up-for-pay-to-play-in-latin-america/.

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While Puerto Rico is losing population big time, some people are going there for tax advantages over the US mainland. What is the truth about the economic status and future of the island?

Our guests are Frank Worley and Albert Soutomaior (pictured). Worley was co-founder of the original Libertarian Party of Puerto Rico and is founder of MIRE (Movimiento Independentista Republicano). Soutomaior writes policy for the Libertarian Party of Puerto Rico and is one of the co-founders of the Institute for Human Freedom.

Show notes: http://goldnewsletter.com/podcast/puerto-rico-tax-haven-or-economic-disaster/.

Brexit is happening, and Election Betting Odds gives it 87 percent likelihood within the first half of 2017. The question then is, what now? What will the European Union look like without the British, the most classical-liberal member nation?

Show notes: http://goldnewsletter.com/podcast/what-becomes-of-the-broken-european-union/.

Cris Lingle, originally from Georgia, is an international economist with a teaching position at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala. In particular, he specializes in political economy and public-policy reform, and we address the trajectory of public debt and public pensions in the United States.

Show Notes: http://goldnewsletter.com/cris-lingle-unions-have-dug-their-own-pension-grave/.