It's about 41 minutes. Yaron Brook of ARI is a guest from about 2:19 to 8:25 along with an obnoxious communist named Jesse Myerson, who writes for sites like Rolling Stone and Slate.
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Just note, however, that the gold is not at the Federal Reserve. It is at the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank of Commerce - in our post-modern times rebranded as merely "HSBC" - a private bank with offices in New York City. And it is one thing to pass a law, but another to actually have someplace to put the gold. That will b...(Read more...)
I saw both episodes last night, the first about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, the second about the Wright Brothers and Glenn Curtiss. I had not been aware of the intense rivalry and patent dispute between Curtiss and the Wrights. There is more about it at the link to Curtiss. Very interesting that the U.S. government, wit...(Read more...)
One of five Walmart stores rccently closed (by the cmpany) for unspecified 'plumbing' issues was the site (Pico Rivera, CA) of some worker protests involving sit-ins, pickets and walkouts. It looks like the company has shrugged at them and the city government.(Read more...)
Here in California, Governor Brown has mandated cutbacks in water usage in response to a three-year drought, while ignoring the far more important causes of the shortage -- cheap, below-market water prices especially for politically favored groups.
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