Tim, Ian, and Lydia join libertarian and economist Robert Murphy to assess the news of New York's new governor flexing her powers to fire healthcare workers who refuse the Covid vaccine and bring in National Guard to perform nurses' tasks, Germany's choices to move control of housing from companies to the state, Texas' considerations of secession, and how that is similar to and different from New Hampshire's similar plans, the GOP blocking a Democratic bill to raise the debt ceiling and stave off a government shutdown, and how the Federal Reserve creates money out of nothing,

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