
No Free Lunch—Economic Truth in an Era of Financial Insanity with Dave Bahnsen
Episode · 34 min · April 5, 2022
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Charlie begins this episode by outlining the upcoming vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as Politico writes, "The First Black Justice" to the Supreme Court — only it's a complete lie, just ask Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas. Charlie then recounts the history surrounding Biden's role in killing the first
potential black female justice to the highest court in the land and how that history has been completely memory holed by the American media. Next up, Charlie explains NYC's new, unreal marketing campaign recruiting Floridians to move back to New York with a story you have to hear to believe. Finally, Charlie welcomes Dave Bahnsen, Founder of The Bahnsen Group, which oversees $3.5 billion in assets, and author of "There is no Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths," to break down the economic realities of fiscal and monetary policies that have governed the affairs of man for centuries, and which the left is working overtime to ignore. What are some of the key economic truths that Americans in 2022 most need to learn? Is America today more at risk of the stagflation that marked American during the 1970s or Japan in the 1990s? What really caused this runaway inflation, and what is the actual inflation number? Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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