Let People Prosper

Today, I'm grateful to be joined on the "Let People Prosper Show" by Hannah Cox, prominent libertarian writer, commentator, activist, and co-founder of BASEDPolitics. We discuss: 1) How antitrust laws harm capitalism, why free markets work better with less government interference, and how people misunderstand antitrust laws; 2) What people, especially younger generations, misundersta...

Thank you for listening to the 24th episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights on key economic and policy news. Today, I cover: 1) National: What the new revised GDP rate reveals about ongoing economic weakness, how the labor market continues to cool, and why there are more job openings than there are unemployed individuals; 2) Texas: My latest report published b...

Today, I'm grateful to be joined by Dr. Peter St. Onge, Research Fellow and the Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Economic Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, on the "Let People Prosper Show." We discuss: 1) What findings compelled him to switch his economic beliefs from being a communist to a free-market capitalist; 2) Observations from his experience living and working in Taiwan, incl...

Thank you for listening to the 23rd episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights on key economic and policy news at the national and state levels. Today, I cover: 1) National: Declining Dow Jones, depreciating dollar, the Jackson Hole conference, Fed's balance sheet, slow job growth, strong GDP growth, and why I believe we've been in a recessi...

Please enjoy this BONUS episode of the Let People Prosper podcast, where I join the "This Week in Bitcoin" podcast hosted by Adam Meister. We discuss: 1) Why the U.S. dollar is weakening, and whether cryptocurrency has the potential to replace the dollar as the currency; 2) How antitrust laws harm competition and threaten sectors like tech; and 3) What the election in Argentina could mean for its...

Thank you for watching this week's episode of the "Let People Prosper" podcast. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Matt Mitchell, senior fellow in the Centre for Economic Freedom at the Fraser Institute: We discuss: Thank you for watching this week's episode of the "Let People Prosper Show" podcast. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Matt Mitchell, senior fellow in the Centre for E...

Thank you for listening to the 22nd episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights every Friday morning on key economic and policy news at the national and state levels. Today, I cover: 1) National: What the new decade-high interest rate signifies for homeowners and renters, promising GDP growth, and the left wants more spending on top of some of this &...

Today, I'm grateful to be joined by Nic Horton, founder and CEO of Opportunity Arkansas. We discuss: 1) How Arkansas continues to grapple with the same issues decade after decade, including a broken foster care system, high poverty rates, and poor K-12 reading scores; 2) Why safety net reforms are key to Arkansas' flourishing, specifically concerning Medicaid; and 3) How more school choice...

Thank you for listening to the 21st episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights every Friday morning on key economic and policy news at the national and state levels. Today, I'm honoring what would have been the 111th birthday of Nobel Prize Winner Milton Friedman, whose economic wisdom has profoundly impacted my philosophies. By discussing some...

Thank you for watching this week's episode of the "Let People Prosper" podcast. Today, I'm honored to be joined by Daniel Turner, executive director of Power the Future. We discuss: 1) The flawed green energy agenda, how it centralizes power, enables China, and stifles free markets, among other things; 2) Why wind and solar can never replace fossil fuels and the harmful effects o...

Thank you for listening to the 20th episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights every Friday morning on key economic and policy news at the national and state levels. Today, I cover: 1) National: Findings from the latest Jobs Report, household survey, average weekly earnings, and my thoughts on Fitch downgrading the U.S. credit score; 2) States: Why...

Thank you for watching this week's episode of the "Let People Prosper" podcast. Today, I'm honored to be joined by John Mozena, president of The Center for Economic Accountability. We discuss: 1) How politicians, even on the right, incorporate components of "sidewalk socialism" and why this is a dangerous game; 2) How corporate welfare is disrupting the natural flow of...

Thank you for listening to the 19th episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights every Friday morning on key economic and policy news at the national and state levels. Today, I cover: 1) National: The Fed's new overnight lending rate, which is the highest in 22 years, and the latest GDP numbers, which reveal slow growth overall; 2) States: My expe...

Thank you for watching this week's episode of the "Let People Prosper" podcast. Today, I'm honored to be joined by Dr. Judy Shelton, renowned economist and author specializing in global finance and monetary issues. She is a Hoover scholar who has been consulted on international economic/financial issues by national security officials at the White House and Pentagon, to name a few...

Thank you for listening to the 18th episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights every Friday morning on key economic and policy news at the national and state levels. Today, I cover: 1) National: Findings from the latest Jobs Report, including which states are leading the way in job creation; 2) States: Why the latest Texas property tax relief is sig...

Thank you for watching this week's episode of the "Let People Prosper" podcast. Today, I'm honored to be joined by Dr. Bob Murphy, senior fellow with the Mises Institute, prolific author, and host of The Bob Murphy Show podcast. We discuss: 1) What’s been called the "old right" vs. the "new right", where Oren Cass of the “new right” gets some things correct, a...

Thank you for listening to the 17th episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights every Friday morning on key economic and policy news at the national and state levels. Today, I cover: 1) National: Findings from the latest Jobs Report and CPI inflation data, including employment still not recovered fully since shutdowns and inflation not fully cooled;...

Thank you for watching this week's episode of the "Let People Prosper" podcast. Today, I'm honored to be joined by Dr. Michael Munger, director of the interdisciplinary politics, philosophy, and economics program at Duke University and professor of political science, prolific author having published 200 articles and papers and seven books, and former president of the Public Choice Society. We disc...

Thank you for listening to the 16th episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights every Friday morning on key economic and policy news at the national and state levels. Today, I cover: 1) National: Why America is headed down a road of less freedom and liberty due to ongoing excessive government spending and why a spending limit based on a maximum of th...

Thank you for watching this week's episode of the "Let People Prosper" podcast. Today, I'm honored to be joined by Dr. Alexander ("Alex") Salter, who is the Georgie G. Snyder Associate Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, the Comparative Economics Research Fellow at TTU's Free Market Institute, and an associate editor of the Journal of Private Enterpris...

Thank you for listening to the 15th episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights every Friday morning on key economic and policy news at the national and state levels. Today, I cover: 1) National: Latest reports from the markets and how the U.S. dollar is being devalued due to interest rates rising in other countries; 2) States: What's lacking in...

Thank you for watching this week's episode of the "Let People Prosper" podcast. Today, I'm honored to be joined by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research. We discuss: 1) How the U.S.' policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic harmed the poor, working class, and children and t...

Thank you for listening to the 14th episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights every Friday morning on key economic and policy news at the national and state levels. Today, I cover: 1) National: New Pew Research poll reveals that inflation is the top concern for Americans on both sides of the political aisle, Fed needs to do more, and financial mark...

Thank you for listening to this week's episode of the "Let People Prosper" podcast. Today, I'm honored to be joined by Patrick Gleason, Vice President of State Affairs at Americans for Tax Reform. We discuss: 1) How the state flat tax revolution has swept across the country over the last two years, which states have joined, and why it is a beneficial change for more flourishing;...

Thank you for listening to the 13th episode of "This Week's Economy," where I briefly recap and share my insights every Friday morning on key economic and policy news at the national and state levels. Today, I cover: 1) National: Why the new inflation rate is not exactly good news in light of prices still being too high in many sectors and why the Fed should more aggressively cut its...