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WE’RE BACK! We had to take a while off because of some real life stuff, but were back and OH BOY did we pick a good week to come back. Norfolk Southern nuked a town in eastern Ohio AND NORAD shot down TWO UFOs this week (one over Lake Huron and one over Alaska). We dive into all the details and oh my God there are so many details so lets jump into it!
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Derailed Train in Ohio Carried Chemical Used to Make PVC, ‘the Worst’ of the Plastics | Inside Climate News
Norfolk Southern Corp. | Fintel
Yesterday there was a major derailment in Houston, and another in Enoree, South Carolina. | More Perfect Union Twitter
After the Ohio Train Derailment: Evacuations, Toxic Chemicals and Water Worries | The New York Times
Statement from Regional Administrator Debra Shore on the East Palestine Train Derailment | United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Drone video shows aftermath of Ohio train derailment, explosion | WBNS 10TV
Radio Audio From F-16 Shoot Down Of Object Over Lake Huron | The War Zone Youtube
Statement on Today's Actions by North American Aerospace Defense Command | US Department of Defense
FAA temporarily closed Montana airspace after UFO shoot-down in Canada | The Washington Times
US shoots down another ‘high-altitude object’ over Alaska | The Hill
China Ready to Down Object Flying Near Naval Base: Paper | Bloomberg
Mystery surrounds objects shot down by US military | BBC
Rik is joined by Rich Sedei to talk entrepreneurial spirit and starting your own business.
Dr. Rich Sedei was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He attended Texas A&M University (TAMU) in College Station, Texas for his undergraduate degree. There he played lacrosse for the men's team and completed a degree in biology. After college, Dr. Sedei moved to Portland, OR for chiropractic school at the University of Western States. While attending chiropractic school, he was in a horrific car crash, which caused him to suffer multiple fractures in his neck, in addition to disc and ligament injuries throughout the remainder of his spine. He has since recovered well from his injuries with the help of conservative care, rehabilitation exercises, and regenerative medicine. His experience prompted his pursuit of becoming a specialist in traumatic injuries related to auto accidents. In his practice, he draws from his personal and professional experience to help guide his patients, staff, and attending physicians through the nuances of significant physical injuries and the hurdles imposed by insurance companies. In addition to a doctorate degree, Dr. Sedei holds a master's degree in sports medicine, is a certified federal medical examiner, and also holds advanced certifications in whiplash & traumatology. He is currently the Medical Director for Accident Care Chiropractic, which spans across the pacific northwest, specializing in auto injuries. Dr. Sedei is often asked to testify in medico-legal cases as an expert witness in his field. In his free time, Dr. Sedei continues to enjoy coaching and playing lacrosse at a competitive level, doing jiu-jitsu, exploring Portland’s restaurant scene, and traveling.
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Accident Care Chiropractic | Official Website
Italy’s recent elections have seen the rise of the “Brothers of Italy” party led by Giorgia Meloni. Billed as “center right”, the Brothers of Italy have raised several alarms.
With Meloni at the head of a coalition whose other members include Matteo Salvini’s League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, these members were each once the main force on Italy’s populist right. In the words of today’s guest Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, the Brothers of Italy have “an underlying and sinister familiarity.” Although fascism is not an exclusively Italian problem. The world is going through a kind of fascist renaissance and the United States isn’t immune. Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins us to sound the alarm on rising forces in American politics including Donald Trump and everyone’s favorite wanna be dictator Gov. Ron DeSantis (FL).
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a historian who writes about authoritarianism, democracy protection, and propaganda. She is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, the recipient of Guggenheim and other fellowships, and Advisor to Protect Democracy. She is an MSNBC opinion columnist, a regular contributor to CNN and The Washington Post, and provides live commentary on CNN, MSNBC, and other networks. She publishes Lucid, a newsletter on threats to democracy. Her latest book, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, looks at how illiberal leaders use propaganda, corruption, violence, and machismo - and how they can be defeated. You can find more about Ruth on her website ruthbenghiat.com and on Twitter @ruthbenghiat
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Official Website
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present | W. W. Norton & Co.
Lucid Newsletter by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Substack
The Return of Fascism in Italy by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | The Atlantic
PAUL MANAFORT, AMERICAN HUSTLER by Franklin Foer | The Atlantic
Hackers Leak Thousands Of Photos Exposing China's Uyghur Camps | AJ+
How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days by Lawrence Wu | NPR
1928 Poster of Hitler with tape on his Mouth Claiming he is Being Censored | r/PropagandaPosters
Indian politician morphs into hologram to reach millions of voters by Chris Welch | The Verge
Paul Manafort: Handmaiden to dictators by David Hoffman | The Hill
Donald Trump and Steve Bannon’s coup in the making by Ruth Ben-Ghiat | CNN
Ruth Ben Ghiat Profile | Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist
What is Germany's 'Reichsbürger' movement? by Rina Goldberg | DW
The Prince, the Plot and a Long-Lost Reich By Erika Solomon and Katrin Bennhold | The New York Times
Friend-of-the-show Ford Fischer joins us to discuss recent events pertaining to “The Twitter Files” and the recent activities of extremist groups in the United States. If you haven’t heard our previous episode with Ford ( Episode 83), Ford is a video journalist, primary source documentary filmmaker, and the Editor-in-Chief of News2Share.com, where he primarily focuses on political activism and extremism in the United States. His work has been featured on every major news network as well as Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe winning films. You can find more about Ford on his Twitter and News2share.com
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News2share | Official Website
News2Share | Youtube
Ford Fischer | Twitter
News2Share | Twitter
Bari Weiss “The Twitter Files Pt 2” | Twitter
Former NYT columnist Bari Weiss releases ‘Twitter Files Part Two’ | The Hill
‘Twitter Files’ Touted by Musk Reveal How Execs Debated Decision to Block NY Post Account Over Hunter Biden Articles | Variety
Rep. Ro Khanna pushed back on Twitter suppression of Hunter Biden laptop story | San Francisco Chronicle
Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk | The Intercept
Man killed trying to break in Ohio FBI office appeared to threaten agents in social media posts. | PBS News Hour
Bomb Threat at Boston Children's Hospital; Police Give All-Clear | NBC 10 Boston
A Russian Facebook page organized a protest in Texas. A different Russian page launched the counterprotest. | The Texas Tribune
The FBI Calls It An 'Extremist Militia.' What Exactly Is 'This Is Texas Freedom Force?' | Texas Public Radio
Proud Boys, white supremacists protest of canceled drag story time event in Ohio among several across country | Cleaveland.com
Patriot Front | ADL
THOMAS ROUSSEAU: Profile | Southern Poverty Law Center
Black FedEx driver shot at by white men draws parallels to Ahmaud Arbery case | The Guardian
Devil’s Punchbowl — An American Concentration Camp So Horrific It was Erased from History | SPMG Media
THREE SHOT, FIVE ARRESTS AS MILITIA GROUPS AND PROTESTERS CONVERGE ON LOUISVILLE | News2Share.com
The Not Fucking Around Coalition Is America's Largest Armed Black Militia | VICE on SHOWTIME
7 sick days a year & a fair schedule. That is all the Railroad workers of the United States have asked for.
Despite this, President Biden and Congress have seen fit to force a contract on the railroaders. Both the Senate and House voted for the contract. However, 52 senators (all of which have unlimited sick time and make $174,000) saw fit to vote down the sick time amendment to the contract. This left all the rail workers stuck with a hellish scheduling system (Precision Scheduled Railroading) and a contract that the rank and file have resoundingly rejected over and over.
To really understand this battle, we needed to call in support. Luckily, friend-of-the-show Dr. Andrea Haverkamp came in clutch. Andrea takes us all the way back to some of the earliest railroad strikes in US history to help us get the whole perspective of the incredibly nuanced topic.
Dr. Haverkamp is a Labor organizer for the American Federation of Teachers as well as a professor of Climate justice, queer student experiences in STEM, and engineering ethics at the University of San Diago. She has extensive experience in workplace organizing in higher education and healthcare, as well as coalition political organizing for environmental and social justice in the Pacific Northwest. Her research and teaching centers intersectional queer, trans, and feminist frameworks and an organizing approach towards social transformation. Her primary topics of research and teaching are climate justice, trans and gender nonconforming student experiences in STEM, and engineering ethics.
Her engineering experience prior to academia and the labor movement includes environmental engineering positions in the federal government, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She has also served as a chemistry and physics high school teacher in Kolahun, Liberia in the Peace Corps.
Dr. Haverkamp holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering with a doctoral minor in Queer Studies, a graduate certificate in College and University Teaching, and a Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from Oregon State University. She also holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas.
The whole Rik’s Mind family wants to express our HUGE support for the railroaders in this fight against the Feds. Godspeed and give’em hell
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Dr. Andrea Haverkamp | University of San Diago
Great Railroad Strike of 1877 | Encyclopedia Britannica
The Pullman Strike of 1894 | US National Park Service
Eight Hour Day (1916) | US Library of Congress
Great Railroad Strike of 1922 | Wikipedia
From an 8-hour workday to Labor Day: Rail strikes that changed America | The Washington Post
Adamson Act | Wikipedia
Railway Labor Act | Wikipedia
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 | Wikipedia
1992 United States railroad strike | Wikipedia
The Postwar Strike Wave of 1945-46 | American History USA
For Minimum Decency, a Maximum Wage | Institute for Policy Studies
Huey Long | Encyclopedia Britannica
Lawmakers consider how a Kroger-Albertsons merger would affect consumers | NPR
What the proposed Kroger and Albertsons merger could mean for shoppers and food prices | PBS News Hour
Wealth Inequality in Oregon Is Extreme | Oregon Center for Public Policy
Income inequality in Oregon hits new record | Oregon Center for Public Policy
How European-Style Public Housing Could Help Solve The Affordability Crisis | NPR
Imagine a Seattle that can house all of our neighbors in a collective effort | House Our Neighbors
Building Resilient Organizations by Maurice Mitchell | The Forge
Rail workers say quality-of-life concerns not resolved under deal imposed by Congress | PBS News Hour
Share Our Wealth | Wikipedia
Taft–Hartley Act | Wikipedia
Wages and Working Conditions: The Railroad Strike of 1946 | The National World War II Museum
No-Strike Pledge | CQ Researcher
Weekly Digest Number 49 - December 6th, 2022 | Rail & Labor News from Rail Workers United
Labor Rights or Labor Freedoms? A Conversation with Matthew Dimick | Laborwave Radio
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Title: Rail Strikes, Labor Rights & Non-lethal Restraint NFTs w Dr. Andrea Haverkamp | Rik's Mind Ep 111
Global Warming is the biggest reckoning the human race has yet to encounter.
As the United States is still caught in the throes of denial of climate change and “doom & gloom” reigns, there are groups that are trying to solve this problem. One of those groups is the Club of Rome. Building on their groundbreaking report “The Limits to Growth”, released in 1972, the Club has convened a new group to help humanity grow out of our fossil fuel addiction. Their new report “Earth4All” started as a vibrant collective of leading economic thinkers, scientists, and advocates, convened by The Club of Rome, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Norwegian Business School.
With more and more people and organisations joining, Earth4All has become a platform to connect and amplify the chorus of voices that want to upgrade our economies. We are not starting from scratch. The momentum is growing. Communities and policy makers across the world are already changing the way we think about economics.
Earth4All builds on the legacies of The Limits to Growth and the Planetary Boundaries frameworks. Science is at the heart of their work. They rethink capitalism and move beyond GDP for a safe, secure and prosperous future in the Anthropocene.
To help us work our way through Earth4All, we are joined by the Club of Rome’s Till Kellerhoff. Till is the Program Director of the Club of Rome and Coordinator & National Engagement Lead of the Earth4All initiative as well as contributing author of Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity. Before joining The Club of Rome, he studied Politics, Economics and International Relations at the University of Erfurt (Germany), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico) and the London School of Economics (UK). He is mostly working on themes around "Rethinking Economics" and concepts around societal wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries. You can follow Till on his Twitter @TKellerhoff and the Club of Rome on their twitter @ClubOfRome.
About the Club of Rome:
Most influential organizations begin with the meeting of a few like minds. In 1965, Aurelio Peccei, an Italian industrialist, made a speech that proved inspirational to Alexander King, the Scottish Head of Science at the OECD. The two found that they shared a profound concern for the long-term future of humanity and the planet, what they termed the modern ‘predicament of mankind’.
Three years later, King and Peccei convened a meeting of European scientists in Rome. Although this first attempt failed to achieve unity, a core group of like-minded thinkers emerged. Their goal: to advance three core ideas that still define the Club of Rome today: a global and a long-term perspective, and the concept of “problematique”, a cluster of intertwined global problems, be they economic, environmental, political or social.
At the group’s first major gathering in 1970, Jay Forrester, a systems professor at MIT, offered to use computer models he had developed to study the complex problems which concerned the group more rigorously. An international team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a study of the implications of unbridled exponential growth. They examined the five basic factors that determine and, in their interactions, ultimately limit growth on this planet – population, agricultural production, non-renewable resource depletion, industrial output and pollution.
In 1972, the Club’s first major Report, The Limits to Growth was published. It sold millions of copies worldwide, creating media controversy and also impetus for the global sustainability movement. This call for objective, scientific assessment of the impact of humanity’s behavior and use of resources, still defines the Club of Rome today. While Limits had many messages, it fundamentally confronted the unchallenged paradigm of continuous material growth and the pursuit of endless economic expansion. Fifty years later, there is no doubt that the ecological footprint of humanity substantially exceeds its natural limits every year. The concerns of the Club of Rome have not lost their relevance.
Today, the Club continues to be at the forefront of challenging and controversial global issues. Propelled by a new mission and organisational structure, which today includes 35 National Associations, the Club of Rome has now published over 45 Reports. They continue to challenge established paradigms and advocate for policies that can practically address the many emergencies facing society and the planet today. The Club remains true to its historical intent, while it attempts to lay the foundations for long-term systemic shifts in global social, environmental and economic systems. In short, it is an established, respected, international think-tank positioned to face the core challenges of the 21st Century.
The organization includes around 100 active full members with a full-time secretariat in Winterthur, Switzerland with a satellite office in Brussels, Belgium.
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The Club of Rome | Official Website
Earth4All | Official Website
The Club of Rome | Twitter
The Club of Rome | Youtube
Till Kellerhoff | Twitter
Till Kellerhoff’s Articles | The Club of Rome
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Official Website
The Limits to Growth | The Club of Rome
What the controversial 1972 ‘Limits to Growth’ report got right: Our choices today shape future conditions for life on Earth by Matthew E. Kahn | The Conversation
The human race at 8 billion | Axios
Dabi, Khalfan, Lawson Et al. (2022) Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world’s richest people, Oxfam International DOI 10.21201/2022.9684 | Oxfam International
How the rich are driving climate change | BBC
Mark Z. Jacobson, Anna-Katharina von Krauland, Stephen J. Coughlin Et. al (2022) Low-cost solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity for 145 countries, Energy & Environmental Science | Royal Society of Chemistry
Crabs Could Be the Unlikely Hero the Battery Industry Needs | Popular Mechanics
The Lithium Race Takes Shape in the Salton Sea | Dot.LA
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking public vs. private sector myths by Mariana Mazzucato
Fukuyama, F. (1989). The End of History? The National Interest, 16, 3–18 | JSTOR
Why Biden’s Block on Chips to China Is a Big Deal by Michael Shuman | The Atlantic
OECD (2018), "The Belt and Road Initiative in the global trade, investment and finance landscape", in OECD Business and Finance Outlook 2018, OECD Publishing, Paris | OECD
The Kardashev Scale - Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization | Futurism
What's up by miners of intelligence and consciousness? I just wanted to reach out and say, Happy Thanksgiving to everybody.
We had a guest, but it is the holidays, so we had to reschedule. We don't have a show for you this week, but I wanted to come on and wish each and every one of you a very happy Thanksgiving. Thank you so much for the support. It means a lot.
We’ve got a lot of interesting shows coming up. We are looking into the FTX scandal. So there's a lot of interesting topics that we're going to explore in the near future. Were super glad and grateful for all the support and I'm looking forward to more interviews. But at the moment it's been a while and I didn't want to just go on not saying Happy Thanksgiving, so Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and we'll be back next week. Peace.
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Rik Picked a hell of a week to go hunting. While our fearless leader was out in the woods chasing elk, Twitter was imploding and the predicted “Red Wave” of republican voters didn’t show up to the polls.
The Republican strategy of promoting election fraud has backfired. The Democrats (as of now with the Georgia run-off to come) are retaining control of the Senate and the Republicans have taken the House, but only by a slim margin of 7 seats. The GOP seems to be in the midst of a civil war between Trump and DeSantis, setting up a contentious 2024 Election cycle.
Meanwhile, everyone’s favorite billionaire Daddy Musk has been turning Twitter into a dumpster fire. Firing 7k people within the first week. Most of those being his entire content moderation team and engineers who actually built Twitter. Surprise to everyone this has caused chaos. Uses of N-word on Twitter jumped by almost 500% in the few days following his takeover and the Twitter Blue plan has backfired in spectacular fashion. They’re bleeding money and users, so let’s all enjoy Elon’s follies. Stick around for the fun with Rik and Jon!
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2022 US Election Result | Google
Republicans win U.S. House majority, setting stage for divided government | Reuters
Elon Musk plunges Twitter into chaos ahead of midterms | Politico
Elon Musk Faces Another Big Decision at Twitter | The New York Times
Musk's Twitter chaos opens door for challengers | Axios
Racist tweets quickly surface after Musk closes Twitter deal | The Washington Post
How Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Turned Into Chaos | Bloomberg
I Love Twitter (Fake Verified Tweet Compilation) | Youtube
Best Tweets from Twitter's Fake "Verified" Accounts | Youtube
During the early days of the Cold War, the CIA became convinced that the Soviets had discovered how to control the human mind. In response, the American CIA began its own secret program, called MK-ULTRA, to search for a drug that could weaponize the human mind against America and capitalism’s enemies.
MK-ULTRA, in operation from the 1950s until the early '60s, was created and run by a chemist named Sidney Gottlieb. Today’s guest journalist and author Stephen Kinzer, who spent several years investigating the program for his book “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control”, calls the operation the "most sustained search in history for techniques of mind control."
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him "among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling."
Kinzer spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, most of it as a foreign correspondent. His foreign postings placed him at the center of historic events and, at times, in the line of fire.
From 1983 to 1989, Kinzer was the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua. In that post he covered war and upheaval in Central America. He also wrote two books about the region. One of them, co-authored with Stephen Schlesinger, is Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala. The other one, Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua, is a social and political portrait that the New Yorker called "impressive for the refinement of its writing and also the breadth of its subject matter." Columbia University awarded Kinzer its Maria Moors Cabot prize for outstanding coverage of Latin America.
From 1990 to 1996 Kinzer was posted in Germany. He was chief of the New York Times bureau in Bonn, and after German unification became chief of the Berlin bureau. From there he covered the emergence of post-Communist Europe, including wars in the former Yugoslavia.
In 1996 Kinzer was named chief of the newly opened New York Times bureau in Istanbul, Turkey. He spent four years there, traveling widely in Turkey and in the new nations of Central Asia and the Caucasus. After completing this assignment, Kinzer published Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds.
In 2006 Kinzer published Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. It recounts the 14 times the United States has overthrown foreign governments. Kinzer seeks to explain why these interventions were carried out and what their long-term effects have been. He has made several trips to Iran, and is the author of All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. It tells how the CIA overthrew Iran's nationalist government in 1953.
Kinzer wrote about Africa in his book A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa called it "a fascinating account of a near-miracle unfolding before our very eyes.”
In 2010 Kinzer published Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future, which Huffington Post called “a bold exercise in reimagining the United States’ big links in the Middle East.”
Kinzer’s next book, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, was widely praised. Reviewers called it sparkling, riveting, gripping, bracing, and disturbing. The Wall Street Journal called it a “fluently written, ingeniously researched, thrillerish work of popular history.”
In 2017 Kinzer published The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire. His newest book, published in 2019, is "Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control."
After leaving the Times in 2005, Kinzer taught journalism, political science, and international relations at Northwestern University and Boston University. He is now a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and writes a world affairs column for The Boston Globe.
While posted in Turkey, Kinzer hosted the country’s first radio show devoted to blues music. He is the author of the entry on Jelly Roll Morton in The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge.
In 2008 Kinzer was awarded an honorary doctorate by Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. The citation said that "those of us who have had the pleasure of hearing his lectures or talking to him informally will probably never see the world in the same way again."
The University of Scranton awarded Kinzer an honorary doctorate in 2010. “Where there has been turmoil in the world and history has shifted, Stephen Kinzer has been there,” the citation said. “Neither bullets, bombs nor beating could dull his sharp determination to bring injustice and strife to light.”
You can find more about Stephen and his work on his official website stephenkinzer.com or on twitter @stephenkinzer
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Stephen Kinzer | Official Website
Stephen Kinzer | Twitter
Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs | Brown University
The most important lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Stephen Kinzer | The Boston Globe
The protests in Iran could be a turning point by Stephen Kinzer | The Boston Globe
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer | MacMillan Publishers
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The parallels between now and the Great Depression are numerous. You’ve no doubt felt the pressure of inflation, rising food prices and the rampant corporate profiteering over the last year. Today economic historian Rick Fair joins us to help us to cut through the noise and figure out what’s going on by looking at what’s already happened.
Rick Fair is an economic historian and practicing attorney at law. He has practiced as a tax attorney for 6 years, primarily assisting clients with structuring high-net-worth business, estate, real estate, and tax transactions. Fair is licensed by the State Bar of Texas and a Circular 230 Attorney with the Internal Revenue Service.
Rick has also worked as an adjunct professor for approximately 10 years, holding a Masters of Arts in American History and primarily studying economic history, with a specific focus on the causes of the Great Depression. Fair has also studied the intersection of violence, race, and economics in late 19th, early 20th century Texas.
Additionally, Rick routinely studies and gives lectures on ghost lore, folklore, and its connection to society via economics, demographics, and geography. This area of interest has led Rick and his wife to begin a podcast called “Spooky Context.” In this podcast, they discuss common forms of folklore and ghost lore in the Southwest, while examining the stories under an academic lens.
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