"Bureaucracies don't like unknowns." — Jeffrey Tucker

In March 2020, COVID-19 started its wildfire spread across America, ushering in lockdowns, mask mandates, social distancing, and the closure of everything from restaurants to churches. At the same time, the Fed's balance sheet blew up and people started having 'free' money flood their bank accounts.

By and large unelected officials made these decisions, opening the door for more loss of our liberties and more unified control over the states in the future.

Eighteen months later, we're left with mammoth grocery store and gasoline prices and inflation that is out of control, with rate hikes doing little to stop the runaway recession train.

It's pure chaos.

But the real question is, how will we get out of this? What will get us back on a growth path? And how do we take back our freedom before the United States of America is forever changed?

My guest has a few ideas.

Jeffrey Tucker is an author, speaker, and the Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Founded in May 2021 the Brownstone Institute in on a mission to come to terms with what happened during the pandemic, understand why, and seek reforms to prevent a reoccurrence through accountability. His most recent book is "Liberty or Lockdown." He also writes a daily column on economics at The Epoch Times.

Jeffrey joins me on this episode of The Wiggin Sessions to walk us through why he created the Brownstone Institute and how they are researching the response to the pandemic and the after-effects of lockdowns to keep it from happening in the future.

Listen in as Jeffrey shares his thoughts on the power grab of legislative agencies that is fertilizing the growth of the government Leviathan and some tough love solutions to the economic struggles we're currently facing.  

Key Takeaways

How Homeland security interpreted legislation to grab power and have complete control over ALL social media

Why the CDC vs. The Health Freedom Foundation case is so critical to limiting the power of executive agencies

Why legislative acts trampling our constitutional rights are fertilizing the growth of the government Leviathan

How the 2009 financial crisis caused institutions to reject the quantity theory of money and created a 'free money' institutional arrogance

How the early 80s friendliness to a spirit of enterprise combined with tax cuts helped us leave the 70s malaise behind

How the tech wreck influenced what is going on with blockchain and the crypto craze now

Why the dystopian concept of one form of crypto becoming THE international remittance could lead to complete government control over money

The #1 biggest concern about programmable money as the central bank currency and demonetization

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