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- Episode 92 Is the Federal Reserve Tightening or Loosening (and does it even know)?
Summary:
June was supposed to be the month the Federal Reserve began reducing its balance sheet by allowing its assets to roll off faster than they are replaced. But the Fed’ balance sheet stands at a record high, as does currency in circulation as excess reserves continue to decrease.
At the same time, money parked at its reverse repo facility has increased significantly in June, which has a tightening effect. So, is the Fed tightening or loosening and does it even know?
Additional Reading
Federal Reserve Balance Sheet as of June 30, 2022
Federal Reserve Recent Balance Sheet Trends
Currency in Circulation
Overnight Reverse Repurchase Agreements: Treasury Securities Sold by the Federal Reserve in the Temporary Open Market Operations
Free Gift from Tom:
Download a free copy of Tom's new e-book, It’s the Fed, Stupid, at itsthefedstupid.com.
It’s also available in paperback here.
It’s priced at a pre-hyperinflation level so grab a few copies for friends if you can.
It makes a great introduction to the government’s most economically damaging institution for liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, and independents alike.
Get even more great content by becoming a Tom Mullen Talks Freedom Supporter at https://www.patreon.com/tommullentalksfreedom
Like the music on Tom Mullen Talks Freedom? You can hear more at tommullensings.com!
32 min - Episode 91 The Reasoning Behind SCOTUS Decisions on Abortion and Guns with Kevin Gutzman
Summary:
Bestselling author and constitutional scholar Kevin R. C. Gutzman returns to discuss the positives and negatives of the recent Supreme Court decisions on state gun regulations and abortion.
Guest bio:
Kevin R. C. Gutzman is the New York Times best-selling author of five books, including Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America , a History Book Club Selection. Gutzman is Professor and former Chairman in the Department of History at Western Connecticut State University and a faculty member at LibertyClassroom.com . He holds a bachelor's degree (With Honors and With Special Honors in History), a master of public affairs degree, and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MA and a PhD in American history from the University of Virginia.
More info on his website at kevingutzman.com.
Additional Reading:
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution by Kevin R.C. Gutzman
James Madison and the Making of America by Kevin R.C. Gutzman
The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Free Gift from Tom:
Download a free copy of Tom's new e-book, It’s the Fed, Stupid, at itsthefedstupid.com.
It’s also available in paperback here.
It’s priced at a pre-hyperinflation level so grab a few copies for friends if you can.
It makes a great introduction to the government’s most economically damaging institution for liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, and independents alike.
Like the music on Tom Mullen Talks Freedom? You can hear more at tommullensings.com!
49 min - Episode 90 Cronyism Has Plagued America Since the Beginning with Patrick Newman
Summary:
Conservatives and libertarians tend to look back at the 17th and 18th centuries as limited government, free market utopias. Patrick Newman shatters that myth with his latest book, Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607-1849.
Guest Bio:
Patrick Newman is an assistant professor of economics at Florida Southern College and a fellow of the Mises Institute. He is the editor of Murray Rothbard's The Progressive Era (2017) and Conceived in Liberty, Volume V: The New Republic, 1784-1791 (2019). He is the author of Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607-1849 (2021).
Guest Links:
Twitter: @drpatricknewman
Patrick’s Mises Institute Profile
Additional Reading:
Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607-1849
Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic
The Progressive Era
Free Gift from Tom:
Download a free copy of Tom's new e-book, It’s the Fed, Stupid, at itsthefedstupid.com.
It’s also available in paperback here.
It’s priced at a pre-hyperinflation level so grab a few copies for friends if you can.
It makes a great introduction to the government’s most economically damaging institution for liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, and independents alike.
Like the music on Tom Mullen Talks Freedom? You can hear more at tommullensings.com!
37 min - Episode 89 Does Cancel Culture Defeat "Hate Speech" or Protect It? with Jason Rink
Summary:
Social media and other Big Tech companies claim to be fighting “hate speech” by censoring content and sometimes even banning controversial people from their platforms. Is this fascism and how can libertarians and other defenders of private property fight this without sacrificing their principles? Jason Rink joins to discuss this and his new film, The Most Canceled Man in America.
Guest Bio:
Jason Rink is an award-winning commercial film producer and director who has helped generate over $500 million in online sales for his clients through the power of brand storytelling and the impact of direct-response marketing. He is also a talented documentary filmmaker who is not afraid to cover subjects that get him canceled.
Guest Links:
Cancel Proof (Jason’s substack)
Jason’s website
Q Sent Me: A Film About the Q Shaman and the Untold Story of January 6th
Additional Reading/Listening:
The Best Anti-Nazi Strategy Is to Let Them Speak
No, government isn’t the problem. It’s the Nitwit Mob
Free Gift from Tom:
Download a free copy of Tom's new e-book, It’s the Fed, Stupid, at itsthefedstupid.com.
It’s also available in paperback here.
It’s priced at a pre-hyperinflation level so grab a few copies for friends if you can.
It makes a great introduction to the government’s most economically damaging institution for liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, and independents alike.
Like the music on Tom Mullen Talks Freedom? You can hear more at tommullensings.com!
1 hr - Episode 88 Do We Have a Right to the Bodies of Others? with Naomi Wolf
Summary:
The world attributes much of the social and economic damage it is experiencing now to the Covid-19 pandemic. But like the 9/11 attacks, the government response to this virus was far more harmful than the disease itself. And the international elites driving this agenda have even more disturbing plans for the future says Dr. Naomi Wolf in her new book, The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human.
Guest Bio:
Naomi Wolf, Ph.D. is co-founder and CEO of DailyClout.io, a successful civic tech company and the author of several books, including The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, and her latest, The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human. A former Rhodes Scholar, she completed a doctorate in English language and literature from the University of Oxford in 2015, was a research fellow at Barnard College and the University of Oxford, and taught rhetoric at the George Washington University and Victorian studies at Stony Brook University.
Book discussed:
The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human
Additional Reading/Listening:
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
Free Gift from Tom:
Download a free copy of Tom's new e-book, It’s the Fed, Stupid, at itsthefedstupid.com.
It’s also available in paperback here.
It’s priced at a pre-hyperinflation level so grab a few copies for friends if you can.
It makes a great introduction to the government’s most economically damaging institution for liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, and independents alike.
Like the music on Tom Mullen Talks Freedom? You can hear more at tommullensings.com!
46 min - Episode 87 On Juneteenth Celebrate Abolition, not Lincoln
Summary:
Juneteenth celebrates the proclamation read in Galveston, TX on June 19, 1865, enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation in that state. While the abolition of slavery is true cause for celebration, Lincoln gets too much credit for what was by his own admission merely a “war measure,” and not enough blame for an unnecessary war.
Additional Reading
Both Lincoln and the Confederacy Were Awful
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
Lincoln’s Letter to Horace Greeley August 22, 1862
Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement
The Real Lincoln: A New
Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
Free Gift from Tom:
Download a free copy of Tom's new e-book, It’s the Fed, Stupid, at itsthefedstupid.com.
It’s also available in paperback here.
It’s priced at a pre-hyperinflation level so grab a few copies for friends if you can.
It makes a great introduction to the government’s most
economically damaging institution for liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, and independents alike.
Get even more great content by becoming a Tom Mullen Talks Freedom Supporter at https://www.patreon.com/tommullentalksfreedom
Like the music on Tom Mullen Talks Freedom? You can hear more at tommullensings.com!
26 min - Episode 86 Science in an Age of Unreason with John Staddon
Summary:
For thousands of years, what we now call “science” has been a boon to humanity. But today, science is in real trouble. Increasingly, social and political pressures threaten the integrity of scientific inquiry, leading to disastrous conclusions. Dr. John Staddon joins Tom his new book on this crisis, Science in an Age of Unreason
Guest Bio:
John Staddon, Ph.D is James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Professor of Biology emeritus, at Duke University. He obtained his B.S. at University College, London, and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology at Harvard University where he also did research at the MIT Systems Lab. He is the author of more than two hundred research papers and nine books, including Scientific Method: How Science Works, Fails to Work or Pretends to Work. He was profiled in the Wall Street Journal in January 2021 as commentator on the current problems of science.
Book discussed:
Science in an Age of Unreason
Additional Reading/Listening:
UNLUCKY STRIKE: Second Edition: Private Health and the Science, Law and Politics Of Smoking
Free Gift from Tom:
Download a free copy of Tom's new e-book, It’s the Fed, Stupid, at itsthefedstupid.com.
It’s also available in paperback here.
It’s priced at a pre-hyperinflation level so grab a few copies for friends if you can.
It makes a great introduction to the government’s most economically damaging institution for liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, and independents alike.
Like the music on Tom Mullen Talks Freedom? You can hear more at tommullensings.com!
43 min - Episode 85 When Does Government Grow the Least?
Summary:
No matter who is president or which party controls Congress, federal spending almost always goes up. But what combination of Republican or Democrat president and Congress has grown government the least? The answer may surprise you.
Additional Reading
Federal Receipt and Outlay Summary
Party Government Since 1857
Free Gift from Tom:
Download a free copy of Tom's new e-book, It’s the Fed, Stupid, at itsthefedstupid.com.
It’s also available in paperback here.
It’s priced at a pre-hyperinflation level so grab a few copies for friends if you can.
It makes a great introduction to the government’s most economically damaging institution for liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, and independents alike.
Get even more great content by becoming a Tom Mullen Talks Freedom Supporter at https://www.patreon.com/tommullentalksfreedom
Like the music on Tom Mullen Talks Freedom? You can hear more at tommullensings.com!
25 min - Episode 84 The Federal Reserve, Davos, and Civilization As We Know It with Tom Luongo
Summary:
On Friday, stock markets sold off sharply on news that inflation still hadn’t peaked as May 2022 numbers indicated an 8.6% year-over-year rate. Tom Luongo has long maintained there is more going on than simple Keynesian policy-setting. Jerome Powell and the interests he represents want to free the U.S. banking system from European control and the Davos agenda. He joins Tom to discuss.
Guest Bio:
Tom Luongo is a former research chemist, amateur dairy goat farmer, anarcho-libertarian, and obstreperous Austrian economists. He now publishes the Gold Goats, and Guns newsletter and podcast and contributes to a variety of publications, including, but not limited to Seeking Alpha, Russia Insider Halsey News and Newsmax media.
Links:
Gold, Goats, and Guns
https://www.patreon.com/GoldGoatsNGuns
Additional Reading/Listening:
Lagarde Capitulates As the Euro-Zone Divides
Biden’s Food and Fuel Crisis — It’s the Policy, Stupid
The Great Reset (Time Magazine)
Yuval Noah Harari - Transhumanism and Eliminating Free Will (video)
Yuval Noah Harari on The Future of Humanity (video)
Yuval Noah Harari | What to Do With All of These Useless People? (video)
Free Gift from Tom:
Download a free copy of Tom's new e-book, It’s the Fed, Stupid, at itsthefedstupid.com.
It’s also available in paperback here.
It’s priced at a pre-hyperinflation level so grab a few copies for friends if you can.
It makes a great introduction to the government’s most economically damaging institution for liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, and independents alike.
Get even more great content by becoming a Tom Mullen Talks Freedom Supporter at https://www.patreon.com/tommullentalksfreedom
Like the music on Tom Mullen Talks Freedom? You can hear more at tommullensings.com!
1 hr 3 min - Episode 83 Prepare for 1970s Stagflation, Not a Housing Meltdown with Thomas Eddlem
Summary:
After fourteen years of almost uninterrupted inflation of the money supply and near-zero interest rates, the Federal Reserve is talking tough on a tight monetary policy. But don’t look for a repeat of 1979, says economist Thomas Eddlem. Price inflation and real interest rates matter. It may be more like 1979 than 2009.
Guest Bio:
Thomas R. Eddlem is a freelance writer who holds a masters degree in applied economics from Boston College. He has written for Antiwar.com, the Foundation for Economic Education, the Future of Freedom Foundation, LewRockwell.com, and The New American magazine among others. He is also Communications Director for the Libertarian Party of Massachusetts.
Links:
It’s 1979, Not 2009
Tom’s Libertarian Institute Author Page
Libertarian Party of Massachusetts Blog
Tom’s Twitter (@teddlem)
Free Gift from Tom:
Download a free copy of Tom's new e-book, It’s the Fed, Stupid, at itsthefedstupid.com.
It’s also available in paperback here.
It’s priced at a pre-hyperinflation level so grab a few copies for friends if you can.
It makes a great introduction to the government’s most economically damaging institution for liberals, conservatives, libertarians, socialists, and independents alike.
Get even more great content by becoming a Tom Mullen Talks Freedom Supporter at https://www.patreon.com/tommullentalksfreedom
Like the music on Tom Mullen Talks Freedom? You can hear more at tommullensings.com!
37 min
About Tom Mullen Talks Freedom
From the publisher's feed
Tom Mullen has been writing about freedom for over a decade. He is the author of Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? and A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America. His writing has been featured in Newsweek, The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, RealClear Markets, The Daily Caller, LewRockwell.com, 321 Gold! and The Foundation for Economic Education.
Now, Tom is bringing his unique perspective and penetrating analysis to his new podcast, Tom Mullen Talks Freedom. The podcast will feature a variety of formats, including interviews, solo commentary, and Q&A. The show will start with 3 episodes per week and ramp up to 5 per week in the not-to-distant future.