EP 665 American Business and the Hangover From the Pandemic

EP 665 American Business and the Hangover From the Pandemic

The pandemic was an economic catastrophe the likes of which CEO’s running America’s biggest companies had never seen or prepared for.  There was no playbook and the shock was even greater given the fact that it seemed that the good times would roll on unimpeded as cheap money(zero percent interest rates)sparked tremendous growth.  But as …

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EP 664 Over Three Days in June 2022, the Supreme Court Changed America: What’s Next?

EP 664 Over Three Days in June 2022, the Supreme Court Changed America: What’s Next?

We have addressed the issue of the overreach of our current make-up of the US Supreme Court, but not in a way as comprehensive as the deep dive we take in this podcast.  We look at the history of overreach on the Court(hint: this isn’t the first time)and we explore the far-reaching implications of what …

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EP 663 A College Degree No Longer Required for Many Job Types

EP 663 A College Degree No Longer Required for Many Job Types

That’s right.  The long held practice of degree inflation is coming to an end in America.  With three state governments–Maryland, Utah and Pennsylvania–declaring that experience, military service, technical preparation and apprenticeships will count more than having a bachelor’s degree for many positions in government, this movement of busting through the paper ceiling is real.  And …

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EP 662 A Safety Net Hospital: A Model for Health Care Reform in America?

EP 662 A Safety Net Hospital: A Model for Health Care Reform in America?

  Healthcare is the number one cause of bankruptcy in America.  Nearly 30 million Americans have no insurance and those who do face staggering increases each year.  We all interact with the healthcare system and to a person I do not come across anyone who thinks it’s a good model.  And while we might have …

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EP 660 Should Public Employee Unions Be Outlawed?

EP 660 Should Public Employee Unions Be Outlawed?

Our guest has been warning America for decades that our government has become unaccountable tied up in overlapping jurisdictions and strangled by reams of rule books and regulation.  The ability to make decisions based on common sense and human innovation has been neutered.  In his new book, “Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee …

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EP 658 How Healthy Are State and Local Government Finances?

EP 658 How Healthy Are State and Local Government Finances?

  Faced with mounting Medicaid costs, powerful public employee unions and often underfunded pension and medical obligations, state and local governments can present fiscal dilemmas that, at times and as a last resort, the federal government gets dragged into.  It is hard to overstate the importance of making certain that the 50 states and Puerto …

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EP 656 Avoiding Complicity in Wrongdoing

EP 656 Avoiding Complicity in Wrongdoing

  Enron. Theranos. Purdue Pharma. Harvey Weinstein. The Nazis.  Awful behavior abounds.  The question is what do we do when we see it?  Do we become a whistleblower or an enabler?  Max Bazerman, a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a behavorial ethicist, has written a new book entitled, “Complicit: How We …

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EP 655 Could America Have Won the Vietnam War?

EP 655 Could America Have Won the Vietnam War?

America lost the Vietnam War. End of sentence. The reasons most scholars give are many. Chief among them is the notion that the North Vietnamese and Vietnam Congress wanted to win more than we did and understand how to fight this asymmetrical war better than our conventional forces. Dr. Mark Moyar, a military historian at …

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