The top 400 richest families in America pay about 2% in taxes while everyone else pays 20 to 26%. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley kick off a new series on housing, laying out why the American dream of homeownership is structurally rigged — flat wages, boomers holding 70% of property, and a tax code built as welfare for the top 20%. They trace housing booms back to the 1920s and post-WWII Levittowns, then debate renting versus owning, closing with international fixes from Tokyo, Vienna, and Austin.

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• (00:00) The thesis – wages never caught up to housing costs
• (10:02) The new housing law – bans corporate landlords, completely unfunded
• (17:37) The tax code confession – secretly a welfare program for owners
• (30:36) Zoning's ugly origin story – the real reason those laws exist
• (41:34) The case for renting – Dave makes it, no hedging
• (51:20) Tokyo vs. Vienna vs. us – how other countries solved housing

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Real estate investor Grant Cardone says never buy a home — rent instead, and put your money in the market. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley debate the case for renting versus owning. Dave, who's rented for over a decade, lays out the freedom of renting against the nonstop chores of ownership. They find zero libertarian voices anywhere in their research — everyone agrees housing is broken. Internationally, Vienna's rents run roughly a third of market rate, Tokyo's the cheapest big city on Earth, and one city's rent control crushed new construction by 48%.

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• (00:00) The case against buying – a top investor says rent, don't own
• (04:48) Being a landlord right now – what happens when nobody's renting
• (09:59) Tokyo vs. Vienna vs. us – how other countries solved housing
• (16:08) The closing thesis – two things guaranteed to affect every voter

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The top 400 richest families in America pay about 2% in taxes — while everyone else pays 20 to 26%. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley dig into what surprised them most in their research. Dave says the tax code was quite literally built for people not to pay taxes, funneling mortgage and college-savings deductions mostly to the top 20%. He found 30 million American children living in poverty — more than any country in Europe, Korea, or Japan. Economist Assar Lindbeck's line comes up: rent control is the fastest way to destroy a city besides bombing it.

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• (00:16) The tax code confession – Dave calls it a welfare program in disguise
• (07:33) Housing booms, then and now – what the 1920s got right
• (13:14) Zoning's ugly origin story – the real reason those laws exist
• (15:53) An economist's brutal verdict – rent control compared to bombing a city

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Elon Musk's net worth is down to "only" $600 billion after SpaceX lost $500 billion in value over the past month. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley open on the US-Iran conflict — Iran's health ministry says 50 civilians are dead and hundreds are hospitalized, and there's still no diplomacy on the table. Micron is down 34% since June 24, Intel's off 35%, and Dell has doubled since March while chopping sideways at resistance. Jerremy expects SpaceX to keep falling before a relief rally, and thinks Tesla will "ping-pong" through earnings the same way it did last summer. Dave breaks down the local political fights erupting over AI data centers' water and power use, plus the case for a rout in the midterms if the economy stays weak — his outside bet is that the president won't finish his term.

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Baby boomers now own roughly 70% of American homes and property — and politicians are too scared to touch it. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley lay out the thesis for a new series on housing: wages stayed flat while prices and interest rates exploded. Dave says the newest housing law just passed the Senate 85-5 and became law without a presidential signature. It bars investors who own 350+ single-family homes from buying more, but carves out purpose-built rentals — and comes with $200 billion in completely unfunded grants.

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• (00:00) Wages vs. housing costs – the stat that shows they never caught up
• (03:45) Nashville's housing boom – why prices tripled there in six years
• (07:23) The boomer wealth transfer – politicians are too scared to touch it
• (10:02) The new housing law – bans corporate landlords, but $200 billion unfunded

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The best U.S. cash experiments still can't prove money durably improves health or child outcomes. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley spend five episodes chasing why, hearing from Ron Lynch that free cash is a chain, not a check, and from Chris Rimbal that money itself may vanish within 20 years. Dr. Conley and Dr. Rhodes weigh in last: cash helps, but isn't the answer either host hoped for. Jerremy pitches a Citizen Capital share system instead of a handout, and Dave argues the AI disruption they keep circling has already arrived.

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Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley close the series on the loudest disagreement yet: has the AI revolution already hit, or is it still coming? Dave says he now runs this entire podcast alone — work that used to require four or five staffers — because of AI. Jerremy pushes back, insisting today's AI still isn't truly intelligent, just a sharper search engine stitching articles together. Dave counters that the United States only ever fixes disasters after they detonate, and argues this one already has. They close on a lighter note, narrowing their next topic to housing, fentanyl, or the baby bust, then let a game of craps make the final call.

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The best U.S. cash experiments still can't prove giving people money durably improves health or child outcomes. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley pick up their UBI rebrand mid-series: Dave proposes literal shares in America, dividends tied to the AI and data economy already built on public information. Jerremy renames the whole concept the Citizen Capital program, hoping shared ownership sells better than a handout ever could. Chris Rimbal predicted money itself might not exist within 20 years. Then two doctors arrive with the actual data: cash helps, but it isn't the single answer either host hoped to find.

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The US-Iran ceasefire effectively collapsed over the weekend, and crude jumped back above $74 on the news. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley walk through the tech market's gap-down open and the case for a pullback toward the 50-day moving average on the Nasdaq-100, plus why Jerremy is aggressively short SpaceX — targeting $70–100 a share against its near-$3 trillion peak valuation. They break down the real mechanism behind Fed rate policy: the federal government competing with everyday borrowers for debt buyers, which keeps rates elevated regardless of what the Fed does with its own target. Grocery prices, tariffs, and the politics of the Middle East round out the conversation, along with a preview of Tesla, Meta, and NVIDIA earnings.

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• (00:31) Ceasefire collapses – Iran deal unravels over the weekend, crude spikes past $74
• (00:56) Tech gap-down – Nasdaq-100 gap likely fills lower before buyers step back in
• (02:56) Short SpaceX – Jerremy targets $70–100 a share versus its near-$3T peak
• (04:57) Fed testimony collides with CPI – markets price 60–64% odds of a September move
• (07:50) Who really sets rates – government competes with everyday borrowers for debt buyers
• (09:27) Earnings season ahead – Tesla, Meta, and NVIDIA's next moves into late July

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Free cash isn't a check — it's a chain, according to Ron Lynch, who argues handouts push society toward technocratic feudalism. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley open this series admitting the American dream started fracturing sometime in the 1990s, once information itself became the real currency. Lynch's claim: money given for nothing quietly erodes purpose, feeding the "trust fund baby" stigma. Dave pushes back, splitting purpose from income entirely. Jerremy admits his own family still struggles with the victim mindset Lynch describes. They close still disagreeing on one point: who actually controls the money once it's handed out.

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