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Guest Ken Rapoza, Coalition for a Prosperous America, joins to discuss ongoing legal battles with the court system working to stop the Trump tariffs. Why? Discussion of hating Trump more than loving the country, and intentionally sabotaging trade deals to make Trump fail. Guest Patrick Moore, Co-CEO of Pretekt, joins to discuss the sham of the healthcare industry and failures of health insurance. Discussion of prescription drugs not covered by insurance, the price of healthcare with vs without health insurance, and more. 

Shaun talks to Larry Elder about his new documentary, Electric Vehicles: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (available on SalemNOW), and their upcoming 2025 Cigar Night! PLUS, Kenneth Rapoza, analyst at the Coalition for a Prosperous America, talks to Shaun about free trade, closing loopholes on trade with China, and how infiltrated Canada is with the CCP. And Our National Anthem: sung by the Timberline Church Choir, Fort Collins, COSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The first 100 days of President Trump's second term have come with a wide range of changes for the nation's economy and global supply chains. Could these changes lead to a more prosperous America, or hardship for individuals and businesses? In partnership with Bloomberg, five renowned economists look at President Trump's economic agenda during his first 100 days and discuss tariffs as a strategy, whether deregulation is good for growth, and whether the President's "medicine" means a recession.  Jason Furman, Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; Professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government    Allison Schrager, Economist, Bloomberg Opinion Contributor & Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute    Stephen Moore, Former Senior Economic Advisor to President Trump; Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation; Co-founder of Unleash Prosperity    Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics at University College London; Author of "Mission Economy"  Jeff Ferry, Chief Economist Emeritus at the Coalition for a Prosperous America; Previous Tech Executive  Mishal Husain, Editor-at-Large for Bloomberg Weekend, is the guest moderator.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kenneth Rapoza, analyst at the Coalition for a Prosperous America, talks to Shaun about free trade, closing loopholes on trade with China, and how infiltrated Canada is with the CCP.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ralph talks about his new book, “Civic Self Respect” which reminds us that our civic lives have different primary roles—not only voter, but also worker, taxpayer, consumer, sometimes soldier and sometimes parent—and how each one offers special opportunities for people to organize to make change. Plus, we welcome back former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, John Koskinen, who tells us exactly how the Trump/Musk cabal is both gutting and weaponizing the IRS.John Koskinen served as the IRS Commissioner from 2013 to 2017.This is not a how-to book. It starts at a much more elementary level and therefore should interest a much greater number of people. Because, as I say, if you can expand your civic dimension as a part of your daily role without disrupting the rhythms of your daily life (in fact, actually making them more gratifying and more interesting, less boring), you're on your way.Ralph Nader author of Civic Self-RespectThe people who really fight for justice in this country have to fight for recognition, they have to fight for media, they have to fight an onslaught. And the people who lie and cheat and say the most terrible things and do the most terrible things are really the best-known people in the country. I mean, if you say who are the best-known people in Congress? They're the blowhards, the cruel and vicious people who've said things that are illegal, outrageous against innocent groups here and abroad.Ralph NaderI used to say to the Congress (trying to get appropriations) that the IRS is the only agency where if you give it money, it gives you more money back. Because the more you can actually audit people who aren't paying the proper amount or aren't filing at all, the better off you are. So no one has ever disagreed with that.John KoskinenGoing back a thousand years, tax collectors have never been particularly popular. And so when you talk about the IRS, people say, "Oh, the poor old IRS." In some ways, they don't understand just the points you're making about the impact on them, on the country, of an ineffective IRS going forward. And that's why my thought is this move toward using the IRS to attack people ought to be a way for everyone to say, "You know, I may not love paying taxes, but I certainly don't want the government and the president or the treasury secretary or somebody else ordering an audit of my taxes just because they don't like my political position or what I'm teaching in my course.”John KoskinenRalph Nader's new book Civic Self-respect is available now from Seven Stories Press.News 4/16/251. On Thursday April 17th, Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland departed for El Salvador in an effort to personally track down Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant who was arrested and deported to CECOT, the notorious Salvadoran prison camp, WUSA9 reports. Garcia was legally protected against deportation by a 2019 court order and a Trump administration official admitted in court that he “should never have been on that plane.” Last week, the Supreme Court unanimously ordered that he be returned to the U.S. Van Hollen is quoted saying “You go out, you get disappeared, they say they did it in error, but they're not helping bring you back…it's a very short road to tyranny.” Gracia has not been heard from since he was deported, raising concerns about his health and wellbeing. This comes after ICE Director Todd Lyons said he wanted to see a deportation process “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings,” per the Guardian. This episode is among the most chilling in American history and we are less than four months into a four-year term.2. Another gut-wrenching immigration story concerns Palestinian Columbia University student, Mohsen Mahdawi who was tricked, trapped, and abducted by ICE. The Intercept reports “Even before his friend and fellow Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by immigration authorities, Mahdawi asked university administrators to help him find a safe place to live so he would not be taken by ICE agents…The school did nothing.” Then, “After ICE abducted Khalil last month, Mahdawi sheltered in place for more than three weeks for fear of being picked up himself.” So, the immigration authorities apparently devised a scheme. “Instead of taking him off the street…immigration authorities scheduled the citizenship test at the Colchester USCIS office and took Mahdawi into custody when he arrived.” This action is clearly intended not only to capture Mahdawi but to frighten immigrants and discourage them from seeking citizenship through the legal immigration channels for fear of being deported. Not only that, Mahdawi will be sent back to Palestine, which continues to be the target of relentless Israeli bombing. Mahdawi is quoted saying, “It's kind of a death sentence…my people are being killed unjustly in an indiscriminate way.”3. In more international news, CNN reports China has “halted” its deliveries of Boeing planes. According to President Trump, will “‘not take possession' of fully committed to aircraft.” According to CNN, Boeing is particularly vulnerable in a trade war scenario because “Boeing builds all of its planes at US factories before sending nearly two-thirds of its commercial planes to customers outside the United States.” Boeing anticipated China purchasing 8,830 new planes over the next 20 years. The aircraft manufacturer's stock value fell in the wake of this announcement and is unlikely to fully recover unless some accommodation is reached with China.4. On the other side of the trade war, the Trump administration is preparing to roll out steep sectoral tariffs in addition to the country-specific tariffs already announced, per the Washington Post's Jeff Stein. Stein reports these will target imports of various "critical" products, including autos, steel and aluminum, copper, lumber and semiconductors. Yet, likely no sectoral tariff will bite American consumers more than the proposed tariff on pharmaceutical drugs. On April 8th, POLITICO reported that Trump told the RNC he is planning to impose “major” tariffs on pharmaceuticals. FIERCE, a healthcare news service, reports these could be as high as 25%. Coalition for a Prosperous America, an advocacy group opposed to free trade with China, reports that “Over 90% of all Generic Drugs [are] Dependent on Imports.”5. Turning to domestic matters, the Federal Trade Commission is proceeding with their anti-trust case against Facebook. According to the FTC, “The…Commission has sued Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct.” Further, “The complaint alleges that Facebook has engaged in a systematic strategy—including its 2012 acquisition of…Instagram, its 2014 acquisition…WhatsApp, and the imposition of anticompetitive conditions on software developers—to eliminate threats to its monopoly.” According to Ars Technica, “Daniel Matheson, the FTC's lead litigator, [started the trial with a bang] flagg[ing] a "smoking gun"—a 2012 email where Mark Zuckerberg suggested that Facebook could buy Instagram to ‘neutralize a potential competitor.'” It is hard to see how the company could argue this was not anticompetitive corporate misbehavior.6. A dubious tech industry scheme is also underway at the highest levels of the federal government. WIRED reports that the Social Security Administration is shifting their communications exclusively to Elon Musk's X app, formerly known as Twitter. Wired quotes SSA regional commissioner Linda Kerr-Davis, who said in a meeting with managers earlier this week, “We are no longer planning to issue press releases or…dear colleague letters to inform the media and public about programmatic and service changes…Instead, the agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public … this will become our communication mechanism.” WIRED further reports that, “The regional [SSA] office workforce will soon be cut by roughly 87 percent,” going from an estimated 547 employees to 70. Musk has called Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time,” per the AP.7. Over at the National Labor Relations Board, a whistleblower claims Elon Musk and his cronies at DOGE may have extracted data including “sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets,” per NPR. If that wasn't shady enough, “members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks…turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access.” This whistleblower took his concerns to Congress and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel – whistleblower activities that are protected by law – but faced retaliation in the form of someone, “'physically taping a threatening note' to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone,” clear attempts to intimidate and silence this employee. The Trump administrations have been rife with leaks at every level and instead of responding by addressing the issues raised, the administration has launched a permanent inquisition to plug the leaks by any means.8. In better news, the Independent reports that DOGE itself is finally being subjected to an audit. The audit is being undertaken by the Government Accountability Office at the urging of Congressional leaders after “'alarming' media reports of DOGE infiltrating federal systems,” according to a congressional aide. One DOGE worker has reportedly been identified by as “a 19-year-old high school graduate who was booted from an internship after leaking company information to a rival firm,” raising ever-deeper concerns about the purpose of the “fishing expeditions” DOGE is undergoing at every level of the federal government.9. Another uplifting story comes to us from New York City. In the latest round of public matching fund awards, Zohran Mamdani – the Democratic Socialist candidate surging from obscurity into second place in the polls – was granted nearly $4 million in public matching funds, “the largest single payment to any candidate in the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary race to date,” according to Gothamist. Meanwhile, former Governor Andrew Cuomo was awarded exactly $0. As Jeff Coltin of POLITICO New York explains, “Cuomo's campaign [was] scrambling to get the necessary info from donors to get matched…sending…dire warning to [his] entire email list, rather than…targeted outreach to donors.” If he had collected the necessary information, Cuomo would have been awarded $2.5 million in matching funds, Coltin reports. Cuomo still leads in the polls; as it becomes increasingly clear that Zohran is the only viable alternative, there will be increased pressure on other candidates to throw their support behind him.10. Finally, let's take a peek into the political climate's effect on Hollywood. New York Magazine, in an extensive profile of Warner Brothers-Discovery mogul David Zaslav, includes a piece about Zaslav seeking to ingratiate himself with Trump. According to this report, “a company representative recently reached out to the Trump0 orbit seeking advice about how the company might advantageously interact with the Whitte House.” Their answer: “look at the example of…Jeff Bezos paying Melania Trump $40 million to participate in a documentary about herself. Don Jr. might like a hunting and fishing show on the Discovery Channel, they were told.” Just like the Ivy League universities and the big law firms, if given an inch Trump will take a mile and use it for nothing short of extortion. Hollywood would be wise to steer clear. But wisdom has never been their strength.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

In this episode of the Ag Tribes Report, host Vance Crowe is joined by Charles Benoit, a trade attorney and trade counsel for the Coalition for Prosperous America. Charles brings a unique perspective on trade policies, particularly tariffs, and their impact on agriculture in the US and Canada. He discusses the historical context of tariffs, comparing current trade dynamics to those of the early 19th century, and argues against the prevailing free trade narrative taught in economics classes. Charles emphasizes the importance of protective tariffs for domestic producers and critiques the globalist trade myths that have shaped modern economic policies.The conversation delves into the current tariff situation, highlighting the challenges faced by US farmers due to escalating global trade tensions. Charles explains the dual purposes of tariffs—revenue and protection—and discusses the implications of recent tariff policies on various agricultural sectors. The episode also touches on the controversial views surrounding tariffs, with insights from industry voices like RCAF and Casey Kimbrell. Additionally, the discussion briefly explores the role of Bitcoin in global trade and Charles' views on economic theories, offering listeners a thought-provoking take on trade and agriculture.

April 8, 2025 ~ Nick Lacovella, executive vice president of Coalition for a Prosperous America, joins Lloyd and Jamie to discuss the organizations belief that President Trump's tariff actions are a turning point in the U.S. economic policy and reindustrializing the U.S. by offsetting foreign compeition.

In this episode of The PDB Situation Report:   President Trump announces sweeping new tariffs on foreign imports, signaling a potential overhaul of U.S. trade policy. Kenneth Rapoza from the Coalition for a Prosperous America joins us to explain what these tariffs mean for American industries and consumers.   China completes two days of military drills surrounding Taiwan, sending a clear warning to the island's new president. Steve Yates from the Heritage Foundation breaks down the strategic messaging behind China's military maneuvers and what it means for the future of U.S.-China relations.   To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President's Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Rapoza calls in from the Coalition for a Prosperous America. Talking all the Tariff news from yesterday. D62 quiz, open phones and more.

Reciprocal Tariffs: President Trump announced new reciprocal tariffs on various countries, aiming to counteract the tariffs these countries impose on the U.S. Examples include China (67% tariffs on the U.S.), European Union (39%), Vietnam (90%), Taiwan (64%), Japan (46%), and India (52%). Economic Independence: Trump described this day as a declaration of economic independence, emphasizing the rebirth of American industry and the reclamation of America's destiny. He highlighted the suffering of American workers due to unfair trade practices and promised that these new tariffs would protect and prioritize American manufacturing and jobs. Support from Various Groups: Several industry groups expressed support for Trump's trade policies, including the Coalition for a Prosperous America, National Cattleman's Beef Association, Steel Manufacturers Association, Alliance for American Manufacturing, and National Electrical Contractors Association. These groups praised the tariffs for protecting American jobs, manufacturing, and economic security. Political Reactions: Various political figures, including Speaker Mike Johnson, Governor Jeff Landry, Senator Jim Banks, and Senator Bill Cassidy, supported the tariffs, emphasizing their benefits for American workers and industries. Media Criticism: Trump acknowledged that the media might portray these tariffs negatively, but he stressed the importance of standing up for American workers and ensuring fair trade practices. Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the Ben Ferguson Show Podcast and Verdict with Ted Cruz Wherever You get You're Podcasts. Thanks for Listening #seanhannity #hannity #marklevin #levin #charliekirk #megynkelly #tucker #tuckercarlson #glennbeck #benshapiro #shapiro #trump #sexton #bucksexton#rushlimbaugh #limbaugh #whitehouse #senate #congress #thehouse #democrats#republicans #conservative #senator #congressman #congressmen #congresswoman #capitol #president #vicepresident #POTUS #presidentoftheunitedstatesofamerica#SCOTUS #Supremecourt #DonaldTrump #PresidentDonaldTrump #DT #TedCruz #Benferguson #Verdict #maga #presidenttrump #47 #the47morningupdate #donaldtrump #trump #news #trumpnews #Benferguson #breaking #breakingnews #morningupdateYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Since President Trump returned to office, tariffs have once again dominated economic policy discussions. Recent headlines have highlighted escalating trade tensions with China, renewed disputes with Canada and Mexico, and the ongoing controversy surrounding Trump's proposal to repeal the CHIPS Act—a $52 billion semiconductor initiative that enjoys wide support in Congress as essential for U.S. technological independence.But while tariffs capture public attention, beneath these headlines is a much broader debate over America's industrial strategy—how the nation can rebuild its manufacturing base, ensure economic prosperity, and strengthen national security in an increasingly competitive global environment. Critics argue that the shortcomings of recent attempts at industrial policy, such as the CHIPS Act, prove why government can't outperform free markets.Our guests today have a different view. Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher of the Coalition for a Prosperous America authored a new book, Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries. They argue that a bold, comprehensive industrial strategy is not only achievable but essential—calling for targeted tariffs, strategic currency management, and coordinated investments to rejuvenate American industry and secure the nation's future. But will their approach overcome the challenges of bureaucracy, political division, and international backlash? And can industrial policy truly deliver on its promise of economic renewal?

Why is now the most crucial time to understand trade relations? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Marc Fasteau & Ian Fletcher on their new book Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries.Moments with Marianne airs in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, an ABC Talk News Radio Affiliate!Marc Fasteau is a former investment banker and founder of an insurance company that is now a division of Progressive. Early in his career, he served on the professional staffs of the US Senate Majority Leader, the House Banking & Currency Committee, and the Joint Economic Committee. He was a partner at the New York investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. He has been involved in questions of international trade and industrial policy for 18 years and is a Vice Chairman of the Coalition for A Prosperous America. He has written on international trade and industrial policy in the Financial Times Economist Forum and Palladium magazine.   He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.  https://www.marcfasteau.comIan Fletcher is the author of Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why and coauthor of The Conservative Case Against Free Trade. He was previously Senior Economist at the Coalition for a Prosperous America, on whose Advisory Board he now serves. Earlier in his career, he was Research Fellow at the US Business and Industry Council and an economic analyst in private practice. His writing on trade policy has been published in The Huffington Post, Tikkun, Palladium, WorldNetDaily, The American Thinker, The Christian Science Monitor, The Real-World Economics Review, Bloomberg News, Seeking Alpha, and Morning Consult. He was educated at Columbia and the University of Chicago. https://www.ianfletcher.com https://www.industrialpolicy.usFor more show information visit: www.MariannePestana.com

As President Trump ratchets up trade wars with America's adversaries and allies, two experts on the economy — Jeff Ferry, chief economist emeritus at the Coalition for a Prosperous America, and Scott Lincicome, vice president of General Economics and Stiefel Trade Policy Center at the Cato Institute — clash over whether tariffs will bolster or crush the U.S. economy and what tariffs mean for Americans.Speaking before a student audience at Hofstra University, Ferry defends President Trump's tariffs, arguing that they will strengthen its domestic manufacturing industries and benefit Americans in the long run. “We need a new economic policy in this country,” says Ferry.Lincicome, a veteran trade attorney, disagrees, arguing that tariffs are a tax on American consumers and businesses that will inhibit growth and harm manufacturing. “Open economies—free economies—grow faster, grow better,” Lincicome said. Closed economies, on the other hand, are “a recipe for poverty.”Ferry and Lincicome also discuss the history of tariffs, their global impact, and take questions from Hofstra students.Support for “Firing Line for Margaret Hoover” is provided by Robert Granieri, Vanessa and Henry Cornell, The Fairweather Foundation, Peter and Mark Kalikow, Cliff and Laurel Asness, The Meadowlark Foundation, Charles R. Schwab, Damon Button, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, The Philip I Kent Foundation, Annie Lamont through The Lamont Family Fund, and Al and Kathy Hubbard. Corporate funding is provided by Stephens Inc.

Host Paul Pacelli opened Friday's "Connecticut Today" looking at a prospective bill at the State Capitol hoping to force more state employees back into various offices (00:29). "Coalition for a Prosperous America" analyst and former Wall Street Journal and Forbes reporter Kenneth Rapoza detailed the deep connection between China, India, and the U.S. regarding generic pharmaceuticals (13:23) Image Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus

In this episode of The PDB Situation Report: Mexican drug cartels are reportedly planning to target U.S. law enforcement as the Trump administration escalates its border crackdown. Former DHS Senior Advisor Chuck Marino joins us to assess the threat. The White House is rolling out reciprocal tariffs against key global trading partners, marking a significant shift in U.S. trade policy. What's President Trump's strategy, and how will it impact the economy? Kenneth Rapoza from the Coalition for a Prosperous America joins us to break it down. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President's Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Beam: Visit https://ShopBeam.com/MIKE and use code MIKE for up to 40% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This does not apply to government jobs, which is all the growth we've had in the last 4 years. Nick Iacovella, Executive Vice President for the Coalition for a Prosperous America explains.

Joe Concha, Deroy Murdock, and Nick Iacovella from the Coalition for a Prosperous America all join a show in which Wiggins does a completely unnecessary weather report from the roof.

Is Trump going to bulid Gaza-Lago? PLUS, Shaun talks to Kenneth Rapoza, analyst at the Coalition for a Prosperous America, about Trump's trade tariffs after coming off the worst trade deficit year ever. And Dr. Lynn Lafferty tells Shaun how long food companies have been making us increasingly unhealthier by adding addictive substances to our food and drug companies have been pushing us away from natural prescriptions to harmful medicines. Check out her website to learn how to advocate for your own health and become your own health investigator!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shaun talks to Kenneth Rapoza, analyst at the Coalition for a Prosperous America, about Trump's trade tariffs after coming off the worst trade deficit year ever.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chuck And Julie Show with Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden With Guests Former WSJ and Forbes Reporter Kenneth Rapoza and Grassroots republican, Weston Imer - Trump and tariffs Screw around and find out - how Trump's tariff threat to Colombia proves tariffs work. Kenneth Rapoza., former WSJ and Forbes Reporter and current analyst at the Coalition for a Prosperous America joins the show. Plus Wes Imer on RINOs making power grabs in Colorado.

Ian Fletcher, co-author of Industrial Policy for the United States, published by Cambridge University Press, joins the show to argue that free trade does not always serve national interests. Fletcher defines industrial policy as government intervention to support better industries, emphasizing that some industries are inherently more valuable. He highlights successful industrial policies in Japan, Korea, and Germany. Fletcher also discusses the role of tariffs in protecting domestic industries, using the example of U.S. electric vehicle tariffs on Chinese imports.If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for Gene, please email him at contact@economicsexplored.com.About this episode's guest: Ian FletcherIan Fletcher is an Advisory Board Member for Coalition for a Prosperous America. He is the author of Free Trade Doesn't Work (2010) and a co-author of The Conservative Case Against Free Trade. He was Senior Economist at the Coalition for a Prosperous America and a Research Fellow at the US Business and Industry Council. He was educated at Columbia and Chicago.Timestamps for EP271Introduction (0:00)Defining Industrial Policy (3:31)Ian Fletcher's Journey into Industrial Policy (6:48)Better Industries and Manufacturing (11:27)Arguments Against Free Trade (18:10)Case Studies and Successes of Industrial Policy (28:07)Tariffs and Modern Industrial Policy (48:21)Taiwan's Success Story (51:46)Conclusion and Final Thoughts (53:51)TakeawaysIndustrial Policy Defined: Industrial policy focuses on nurturing high-value industries that provide higher wages and foster innovation.Free Trade Critique: While free trade reduces consumer costs, it can lead to job losses, regional economic disparities, and reliance on foreign manufacturing.Global Lessons: Successful industrial policies in countries like Taiwan and Germany show strategic government intervention can be successful in some instances, while failures in the UK and India underscore the risks of mismanagement.Technology Pipeline: Ian Fletcher argues that a robust pipeline connecting scientific research to commercialization is critical for maintaining competitiveness in manufacturing and innovation.Links relevant to the conversationIan's book “Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries”:https://www.amazon.com.au/Industrial-Policy-United-States-Competition/dp/1009243071Lumo Coffee promotion10% of Lumo Coffee's Seriously Healthy Organic Coffee.Website: https://www.lumocoffee.com/10EXPLOREDPromo code: 10EXPLORED Full transcripts are available a few days after the episode is first published at www.economicsexplored.com.

Kenneth Rapoza, representing the Coalition for Prosperous America, discussed the intricate relationship between immigration and the U.S. labor market, highlighting that while some companies depend on foreign workers to address labor shortages, illegal immigration can lead to wage stagnation and increased competition for housing, ultimately impeding economic growth. He expressed concerns about the Roosevelt Hotel's financial arrangements, suggesting that government subsidies for housing migrants could undermine its historical significance as an affordable establishment. Rapoza also addressed the potential for the Department of Justice to reduce regulations and government spending, noting the resistance from entrenched bureaucracies that complicate reform efforts, despite advocacy from figures like Elon Musk. Find Kenneth here: https://prosperousamerica.org Find Kerry here: https://financialsurvivalnetwork.com and here: https://inflation.cafe

What is the correct economic strategy for a nation? Rob and Jackie sat down with Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher, authors of Industrial Policy for the United States, to discuss how industrial policy, done right, will develop the kind of economy the United States wants.MentionedMarc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher, Industrial Policy for the United States, (Cambridge University Press, November 2024).Ian Fletcher, Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why, (Coalition for a Prosperous America, February 2011).“Are You a “Marketist” or a “Producerist” on Economic Policy?,” (ITIF, December 2024).

Bryce Covert, contributing writer for The Nation, joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast to talk about her recent article, “Tesla's Toxic Culture Has Spread to Its New Plant in Austin.” Kenneth Rapoza, Coalition for a Prosperous America Industry Analyst, appeared on the America's Work Force Union Podcast and talked about his latest article, “These Ten U.S. Companies Are Overexposed To China.” Marcus Mattox, Vice President of Growth for BuilderFax, joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast and talked about their app and how it can benefit construction workers and training centers.

In Today's episode of Moment of Truth, Saurabh sits down with Marc Fasteau, Founder & Fmr. Chairman of American Strategic Insurance Group and Vice Chairman of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, to discuss the state of the American economy, China, globalization, why free trade isn't free, the meaning of industrial policy, why other countries have it and America needs it.#MarcFasteau #CoalitionforProsperousAmerica #Trade #Finance #Currency #Global #World #Economics #Tariffs #Taxes #AI #ChipsMarc Fasteau is the founder and has served as chairman of the the American Strategic Insurance Group, a property & casualty insurer with approximately $1.1 billion in premium operating in 26 states. The holding company for the Group, Arx Holding Corp, and its shareholders, have entered into a definitive agreement, expected to close in April 2015, to sell a majority interest in Arx to Progressive Corporation (PGR:NYSE)Learn more about Marc Fasteau's work:https://prosperousamerica.org/board-of-directors/marc-fasteau/Become a 'Truther' or 'Statesman' to get access to exclusive perks. Watch ALL EPISODES a day before everyone else, and enjoy members-only bonus content: youtube.com/channel/UC4qmB5DeiFxt53ZPZiW4Tcg/join––––––Follow American Moment across Social Media:X / Twitter – https://twitter.com/AmMomentOrgFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/AmMomentOrgInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/ammomentorg/YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qmB5DeiFxt53ZPZiW4TcgRumble – https://rumble.com/c/ammomentorgOdysee – https://odysee.com/@AmMomentOrgCheck out AmCanon:https://www.americanmoment.org/amcanon/Follow Us on Twitter:Saurabh Sharma – https://twitter.com/ssharmaUSNick Solheim – https://twitter.com/NickSSolheimAmerican Moment's "Moment of Truth" Podcast is recorded at the Conservative Partnership Campus in Washington DC, produced by American Moment Studios, and edited by Jake Mercier and Jared Cummings.Subscribe to our Podcast, "Moment of Truth"Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moment-of-truth/id1555257529Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/5ATl0x7nKDX0vVoGrGNhAj Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Oren is joined by not one but two leading scholars on U.S. industrial policy, Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher, both of the Coalition for a Prosperous America. The episode opens with a conversation about the pair's forthcoming book, which Oren describes as “the authoritative tome on industrial policy past, present, and future.”They dig into why the government should be involved in domestic industry in the first place, the innovations—from the internet to commercial air travel—that wouldn't exist without such involvement, and what the future of American industrial policy should be.For more, check out their forthcoming book, Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries.

Chuck And Julie Show with Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayde With Guests, Industry Analyst, Kenneth Rapoza and Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer Why Trump's economy works for all of us… Kenneth Rapoza, industry analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and senior contributor to Forbes explains. Plus, A daring and deadly strike against terrorists, Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer on the Israeli use of pagers and walkie talkies to target Hezbollah.

Rich talks with Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy about the much anticipated Kamala Harris CNN interview, as well as the possibility of a Newsmax IPO. Then, we look at China's takeover of green energy technology with Kenneth Rapoza, industry analyst from the Coalition for a Prosperous America. Later, road rage, teens feeling pressure to be perfect, and more with psychotherapist Jill Robin Payne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The debate is on. Former President Donald Trump confirms he will proceed with his first scheduled debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. What does Trump say about potential rule changes, and which former Democrats are joining Trump's transition team? Mark Zuckerburg speaks out, revealing that the federal government did play a role in Meta's censorship of key information leading up to and following the 2020 election. While national security adviser Jake Sullivan is in China for talks with his counterpart, tensions between the two countries may be settling down. Meanwhile, U.S. officials are condemning the Chinese regime's aggressive tactics in the South China Sea. Democrats praise Harris's economic plan, while Republicans critique the lack of detail in her proposals. We hear from several lawmakers. Trump and Harris are on the campaign trail with dueling claims on the economic effects of import tariffs. What is the data to support those claims? We talk to the chief economist at the Coalition for a Prosperous America. ⭕️ Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

Shaun talks about Biden's disgusting plea deal with the 9/11 masterminds. PLUS, Kenneth Rapoza, industry analyst from the Coalition for a Prosperous America, tells Shaun about the money we have been burning on F35s for years and the challenges Chinese EV battery maker Gotion is facing from the CCP House Select Committee.   Gary Rabine hypes us up about his event, Parading For Trump, happening the day before the DNC at the McHenry County Fair Grounds with great guest speakers and live music! Grab your tickets here: https://paradingfortrump.com/  And Retired Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith, spokesperson for National Police Association, says our police officers already have enough to worry about and now they are faced with protecting themselves from Venezuelan gangs who have been green-lighted to take them out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GUEST OVERVIEW: Jerry Roberts was  born and raised in Mid-West USA, trained as a newspaper reporter in Perth and has covered politics, manufacturing, and Aboriginal Affairs. Since the declaration of the “pandemic” and the associated lockdowns and “vaccine” mandates, Jerry has been working tirelessly alongside those in WA's freedom movement in pushing back against the WEF agenda. He currently writes for The Light-Australia GUEST OVERVIEW: Kenneth Rapoza is an industry analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America.  He's aslo been a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Sao Paulo and was a former senior contributor for Forbes from 2011 to 2023 writing about China, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and other developing countries. He's a BRICS expert  and a critic of the West's raging globalism with a keen eye for it's impact on manufacturing workers and the destruction of the middle class. 

Kenneth Rapoza, industry analyst from the Coalition for a Prosperous America, tells Shaun about the money we have been burning on F35s for years and the challenges Chinese EV battery maker Gotion is facing from the CCP House Select Committee.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a warning to the Chinese regime, President Joe Biden is hailing the power of NATO as he vows to counter Beijing's support for Russia. And the United States is rolling out a new measure to bar China from harming U.S. industries. How is the backdrop of the war in Ukraine influencing discussions and perspectives among NATO leaders as they meet in the nation's capitol this week? James Gilmore, former ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, joins us to discuss. A bipartisan group of senators is backing a new bill that would bar lawmakers from trading stocks while in office. A growing chorus of families of the victims of two deadly Boeing crashes are speaking out, criticizing what they call a “sweetheart deal.” We talk with Michael Stumo, CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, who's also the father of one of the crash victims. ⭕️ Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Matt Baker - Creator/Artist of the American Liberty Awards - is a man of many talents and passions: he is an artist, songwriter, comedian, entrepreneur and freedom fighter whose mission is to fight against medical and technotronic oppression while promoting the concept of "United Sovereign Nations." You can follow him on X at @slave_2_liberty GUEST 2 OVERVIEW:Kenneth Rapoza is an industry analyst from the Coalition for a Prosperous America, former staff foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and a senior contributor to Forbes covering China since 2011. GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: Mark Anderson is the host of the "Stop The Presses" on Republic Broadcasting Network and founder of thetruthhound.com - He's an independent journalist who focuses on freedom, current events and globalist initiatives such as smart cities and sustainable development.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Kenneth Rapoza is a industry analyst from the Coalition for a Prosperous America, former staff foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and a senior contributor to Forbes covering China since 2011. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Facebook group called… Flyover Conservatives. This group continued to grow and grow by the hundreds and then by the thousands. Throughout the 2020 election cycle, it became increasingly apparent that big tech was no longer disguising their disdain for conservatives and began to censor any right-leaning content.

What You Need to Know is ousting Speaker Johnson might be the best chance to save a GOP majority in November. Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-4) has been blowing the lid off of the spin and deception behind what's being voted through the U.S. House. The Establishment is fear mongering that any principled opposition to Johnson will essentially usher in a Speaker Jeffries… But what if the opposite is true?  Dr. Rainer Zitelmann is a historian, sociologist, and bestselling author of 28 books. He joins Ed to discuss his book How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the  Origins of Prosperity. Dr. Zitelmann explains how nations succeed, the critical role of market capitalism in the developmental processes, and how the development of economies across the world have proven Adam Smith right time and time again. Kenneth Rapoza, business journalist and analyst at the Coalition for Prosperous America, joins Ed to discuss the growing dominance of the Communist Chinese on the global market. Specifically, China is breaking into the global energy industry, being marketed as the ‘Green OPEC'. Europe is facing stiff opposition in the global market. Wrap Up: The House activity and looming speaker fight show once again that our biggest battle, biggest issue, biggest need for attention in America is the war against the Deep State. We the People must remove the elites from power if our nation is to survive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BlackRock, a major Wall Street firm, is investing millions of dollars in an estimated 30 Chinese military-linked companies sanctioned by the U.S. government, according to a think tank report prepared for Congress. Additionally, BlackRock, which manages retirement assets for millions of Americans, has invested in companies working on China's large-scale nuclear weapons buildup, said the Coalition for a Prosperous America. This needs to stop. The United States needs to stand up and divest from China and put an end to the madness that will lead to our destruction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Communist holiday of May Day is an appropriate moment to reflect on the help American “friends” of China are providing to that country's nuclear, naval and other preparations for a shooting war against us. On April 26th, a webinar by our Committee on the Present Danger: China cataloged how Wall Street and Silicon Valley have long enabled the transfer of trillions of dollars and untold intellectual property and dual-use technology to the CCP and its People's Liberation Army.  And a new report from the Coalition for a Prosperous America documents how BlackRock and its main index-fund provider, MSCI, are even now investing millions of dollars in some thirty ominous Chinese entities, including two directly involved in the CCP's massive nuclear weapons build-up. The Biden administration wants more “engagement” with China. This kind is going to get a lot of us killed. This is Frank Gaffney.

What You Need to Know is that it is time to lock up the people who are trying to cut up our kids. In Tennessee, a bill just passed that would criminalize adults who help kids access “gender-affirming care” without parental consent. This is a great law, and we need more laws like this that protect our kids from the terrible leftist insanity and transgender predators. Transgenderism for kids should be an obvious no – it's a complete no-brainer.  Kenneth Rapoza, business journalist and analyst at the Coalition for Prosperous America, joins Ed to discuss the growing dominance of the Communist Chinese on the global market. Specifically, China is breaking into the global energy industry, being marketed as the ‘Green OPEC'. Europe is facing stiff opposition in the global market. Cheryl Chumley, author, journalist, and host of ‘Bold and Blunt' at the Washington Times, joins Ed to talk about the crimes of Hamas and the ways that Israelis have been able to overcome adversity. The Jewish people have been surrounded by enemies since the nation was created, Cheryl explains, but they have remained resilient in spite of their trials. Wrap Up: Trump Trials, Gag Orders, Immunity Hearings, oh my! The war against Trump isn't just prosecutorial abuse against a political opponent: it's a war on our Constitutional system itself. We must defend it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Show Notes and Transcript Journalist and 'China smartypants' Kenneth Rapoza joins Hearts of Oak to discuss China's impact on Western manufacturing post its WTO entry and the free trade's negative effects on job losses and economic disparities.  We look at the challenges in competing with China's low-cost labour and its aggressive trade practices on other nations.  Kenneth walks us through evolving views on globalization, power shifts between the US and China, and China's strategic expansion in key industries. We address concerns about social control in China and democracy preservation, emphasizing the need to understand changing power dynamics in today's interconnected world amidst China's global rise Kenneth Rapoza is a seasoned business and foreign affairs reporter with more than 20 years experience. He was stationed abroad as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Sao Paulo and was a former senior contributor for Forbes from 2011 to 2023 writing about China, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and other developing countries. After leaving Brazil in 2011, Ken started covering the BRIC countries for Forbes as a senior contributor.  He has travelled throughout all of the countries he covered and has seen first-hand China's impressive growth and its ghost towns as recent as 2017 and 2018. His editorial work has appeared in diverse publications like The Boston Globe and USA Today — where he was given the unflattering task of taking an opposing view in support of China tariffs at the start of the trade war — and more recently can be found in Newsweek and The Daily Caller. He has either written for, or has been written about, in The Nation and Salon in the dot-com years, and almost broke the Argentine internet after publishing a story in Forbes about the return of the International Monetary Fund before the government opened up about it. Today, Ken does the radio and podcast circuit talking about CPA issues. Having grown up near the depressed mill towns of Massachusetts, manufacturing as a bulwark of household income and sustainability is not merely an intellectual pursuit, but a personal one, too. He experienced the life-altering impact government policy has on manufacturing labor in his own family back in the 1990s. He considers himself an American “lao baixing.” He graduated from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH. Ken lives and works from a small farm and beach town in Southern Massachusetts with his family.   Connect with Ken... X                         x.com/BRICbreaker SUBSTACK        doubleplus.substack.com WEBSITE            prosperousamerica.org Interview recorded 15.4.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop/ TRANSCRIPT  (Hearts of Oak) And I'm delighted to have a brand new guest, someone who I've been intrigued watching their Twitter, and that is Kenneth Rapoza. Kenneth, thank you so much for your time today. (Kenneth Rapoza) Thanks for having me on, Peter. I appreciate it. Oh, great. And people can obviously find you @BRICbreaker is your Twitter handle. Ken is an industry analyst from the Coalition for a Prosperous America, former staff, foreign correspondent for Wall Street Journal and a senior contributor to Forbes covering China since back in 2011. And there's so many issues we could discuss, but it's that issue of China which I want to start with. And I've seen a number of your posts, I think on Daily Caller. One of the recent ones was on free trade. I think free traders are wrong. It's time to try trade a new way. And you started off simply by a statement on a Daily Mail poll recently showed 54% of voters support Trump's proposal to put 10% tariffs on imports from China and elsewhere, which is obviously opposite to a free trade thinking. Maybe start there. Why do you think free traders are wrong? And why do you think we need a new model for the future? Well, the idea of free trade, right, of course, goes back to the British colonial days, right? But in modern times, from our youth and what we recall, it really kicked off in its heyday, we could say, probably post-World War II, and then after the end of the Cold War. It was the end of history, peace in the world, right? No more Soviet Union. We're all on the same page with trade. Then it really went into high gear in 2001. This is when China enters the World Trade Organization. At that point, I would say, is the beginning of what some people have called hyper-globalization. That was the Western world's manufacturing base being sucked out of their towns and cities and shipped to Asia. It has been totally destructive. Led to the different policies that we have today. You could even say Brexit in some degree was because of it. It was an anti-globalization vote. You know, because really what's happening is the Western leaders are saying, oh, they know the plebs are against globalization for the most part. And they say, oh, you don't like it anymore. You don't like globalization. Fine. We're going to import all those people that you don't want to compete with in the third world. We're going to import them and we're going to pay them your job. And we're going to pay them your wages that That you don't want to accept. We're going to pay them that. And that's the way it's going to go. So, it's been a disaster for many people. Brexit is probably one of the examples of an anti-globalist push among the populace. And, of course, the Trump election was the creme de la creme of the anti-globalist push within the electorate. So, you know, when you go back to the 80s, 90s, and of course, China joined the World Trade Organization, that was the globalization heyday. And when what many people call a reverse globalization or a localization. The language is still being defined on this issue. But clearly, the populace of the Western world is against the old school globalization. When I say that, that's 80s, 90s trade, the model, the way it was. We're going to just import. We're going to make things where it's cheap to make things. And that's how it's going to be. We're a consumer society. We fill our garages not with cars. We fill them with toys and trinkets and all this other stuff instead. And it's going to be made in Mexico and Asia and so on. And if you don't have a job anymore, well, you can learn to code, or you can go drive an Uber, or you can go, maybe if you're lucky, you're good at math, you can go work at Goldman Sachs, or you could become a nurse. I mean, that's it. And people have rejected that. So, again, a lot of the people who are pro-free trade, they're guys who are older than us, and they came from the time when free trade was, globalization was becoming, was a topic, right? Again, the post-Soviet, the post-Cold War era, and they're thinking they still have that mindset. But there's nothing that shows that free trade has worked for the working class. The blue-collar class. There have been numerous studies showing that it hasn't. It's been great for Walmart. It's been great for multinational corporations, but it hasn't been great for workers because why? They have to compete in the West. They have to compete with labour in Mexico, with labour in Vietnam. There is absolutely no way someone in Manchester City; in Newcastle, can make a car, can make a shirt for what they make it in Bangladesh for. There's no way. They can't do it. They'll never, ever do this. So, if you're going to have that kind of world, then you're just going to outsource forever your manufacturing to Asia or over here in this hemisphere to Mexico. And I think that's where the backlash has come. And I think that's where free traders really have their blind spot is, okay, it's great. There's always going to be trade. There's always going to be imports, but to what extent are we going to allow this so that your industry, whether it is in England or whether it is the United States, whether it is in Germany; to what extent are you going to allow it so that you have no blue collar workforce, you have no manufacturing base anymore? That is the question of the day. That is the biggest pushback. In the West, we have globalism versus anti-globalism, for lack of a better word, you know and that's leading to a lot of political stress in the west. I remember being out on the campaign trail for Brexit with UKIP knocking on doors over the years and anytime you'd knock on the door of someone who ran a business that was a multinational business their response would be of: I don't want Brexit. I want cheap labour I want movement of goods and a cheap labour as low as possible. That's all I care about, it's the bottom line, and is this a conversation about maybe globalization has not gone the way we expected. That it's purely about the bottom line then removes the individual from it is that kind of the conversation that's beginning to now boil up. Oh, absolutely it's beginning to boil up. And again I think it started with Brexit and it started with with trump. Look what's happening in the world today. Look at look at Germany, primarily Germany. You see the headlines in The Economist. They're all worried about Chinese EVs coming in. They're all worried in the Netherlands now about Goldwind. Goldwind is the big wind turbine manufacturer that's taking market share away from precious Vestas. Well, that's too bad. But you want to make it all in China. What do you think China is going to do? They're going to say, well, I don't want to make Vestas. I want my own company. I don't want to make Vestas products. I want to be Vestas. Why wouldn't China want that? Why wouldn't they want that? It makes no sense that they wouldn't want that. I mean, the UK is a bad example here, because the UK used to have Land Rover and used to have the Mini, right? And now that's all Tata. That's all Indian now. I don't know who owns Mini, but I mean, certainly Land Rover and Jaguar. These are British iconic brand, auto motor brands. They're owned by Tata Motors in India now. They're probably still made to some degree in the UK, of course, but the brand doesn't belong to the UK anymore. It's Indian. So, they're panicking and they're panicking because they cannot compete. They will never, ever compete with low cost labour. They'll never compete with China because China is not interested in the free market competition of the West. They're interested in full employment. And it's a massive nation run by provincial leaders who have different viewpoints of the world than Xi Jinping. If Xi Jinping says, no, we just talked to Janet Yellen. We just talked to, you know, whatever his name is, the prime minister of the UK. I can't think of it right now. Now, he said that he doesn't want us to overproduce anymore solar panels and wind turbines and EVs. We're going to stop. We got to play by the rules. We can all be friends. Do you think the provincial guy in Nanjing and Guangdong is going to listen to this guy? He's got a million mouths to feed. Millions of people. Millions. More than the UK's entire workforce. He has in one province. He's not worried about what Janet Yellen says what Olaf thinks. To the Chinese, Olaf is a snowman from Frozen. They're not worried about this guy. So, this is something that they can't compete with. And so they're learning now. They're seeing it. And they're worried now. You see them worrying now because their precious renewable energy market is being taken over by China. Well, sometimes China's out innovating them. China just copied what we made here in the West. But China can do it easier because they get the subsidies. They got workers galore. They got workers galore who aren't worried about, you know, TikTok videos and, you know, trying to rehearse for, you know, they want to be the next EDM DJ or they want to get on Eurovision. That's their biggest dream. And then these guys are just flooding the market with product. You can't compete with that. You'll never, ever compete with that. But that's the free trade. That's free trade. China's saying, hey, you know, we're trading, we're making products. And the West will say, well, yeah, but you're subsidizing or you're doing this. Well, then the Chinese are going to say, well, you subsidize. You subsidize your farmers. The Inflation Reduction Act in the United States, you're giving huge tax breaks to produce. So, you're doing it. So, you stop. There is no such thing as free trade. There is no such thing as free trade the way people thought it would be. And that doesn't mean that importing is bad or that you and I, Peter and Ken, can't start a business. And we can't afford to pay $30 an hour. So, we decide on our own volition. We decide to, from the get-go, that we're going to make it in Mexico. We're going to make our widgets in Mexico. That's what we're going to do. That was our plan from the beginning. That's one thing. It's bad when Ken and Peter were making a widget. We wanted to make it in Newcastle. We wanted to make it in Portland, Oregon. And now we go, I can't do this anymore. I'm competing with Mexico. I have to close now. You and I, we got to lay off 100 people that we work with for 10, 20, 30 years. We got to tell them it's over. And these guys are making $30,000, $40,000, $50,000, $60,000, $70,000, $80,000 a year. But that's 10 times what the, you know, the average salary in Mexico, I think is $16,000. In Vietnam it's nine. So, I mean, it's okay. Again, if Ken and Peter decided we're going to make a widget and we were always planning to make it in Mexico because of that wage variable, but then what happens when you and I were making a widget happily here happily, and now we cannot. Maybe we're done. Maybe you and I have finished, maybe we're finished. But maybe all the people that we work with every day, they're done. It's all over them. But that's the free trade world that is being criticized now because you cannot compete with developing nations on wage alone. Not only that, of course, in the US, we have a strong currency. Think about how far my dollar goes in Mexico or China or Vietnam. I could buy a mansion in Vietnam. I could barely buy a trailer in the United States for $300,000. Think about what I could do with that money in Vietnam or Thailand or Mexico, right? So, not only do you have the wage issue, you have a strong currency here because we're such a financial market. All the money from the world comes here. You have higher taxes here than you do in other places. So, you're competing on that level too. So, there really is the argument of free trade was always something that was for the textbooks, something that the faculty lounge could discuss and economists could discuss in a dream world. But in reality, it never came to fruition because it only was good for the big corporations who were transnational. They had no allegiance to a nation. It wasn't Peter and Ken making a widget. It wasn't you and I making bikes in Oregon. It wasn't that. It was Walmart buying and selling a million bikes all across the continental United States. We don't care about where we get the bikes. If I can get it for $100 or $99 and sell it for $110, and I'm selling a million of them. That $1 difference puts a million dollars a year in my pocket. It's a big deal. So, I mean, those are the guys who really benefited. But the guy who made the bike doesn't benefit. And for them, it's a huge blow. And I think that is where we are seeing in the West today. That's where the tensions are rising from the electorate against the established powers. We can look at even the immigration debate. What is the immigration debate about? It's about why are we giving these guys all this money? Why these guys are hurting our wages or these guys are hurting, you know, our ability to get jobs. And so it's always it always relates to that sort of what I call the immigration debate in the West. I call it forced globalism upon the people. You know, again, like I said earlier, the conversation saying you don't want us to make a factory in Asia. You don't want us to import goods because you all talk to your elected officials and cry because you want to make steel or whatever here. Good. We're going to import all of them here. You know, they're going to make it for half your pay or we're going to totally stunt your wage growth forever. You know, so that's always the stem of the issue in the West. It's always this rush to globalization, creating this, you know, where planet Earth is the nation state rather than the UK as a nation and Germany as a nation or the EU is a block. No, there's districts, like Hunger Games. This is the district that makes this widget. This is the district that makes that widget. And then free capital moves throughout the world. And that's a dream of the free trader, but that's not a dream of the person, again, Ken and Pete, who were making a widget, and now we cannot. We cannot do that anymore, because we cannot compete with Mexico. There is no way in hell we're going to do it. We're not going to make it for the same price you can make it in Albania, for crying out loud. It's all over. And so that has something's got to give. And there's a lot of politicians that realize that. And there's a lot who are pushing back, obviously. Well, in that order, you talk about some of the old understanding of the views on globalization are changing. So, you talk about trade deficits don't matter or imports don't take American jobs. I mean, those are two issues which will come home to roost for individuals because the U.S. Massive trade gap, that has a cost. And of course, if you're all getting your stuff from temu then actually uh no one needs to actually work in America to produce anything so, where are the jobs? And is it a waking up to the damage that unrestricted, uncontrolled, mass-globalization causes in those two simple things of trade deficit and simple jobs. Well yeah there is there is a waking up. Look, I look back; In fact, I'm not an old guy. So, I remember in the 90s, I was young, I was probably just starting to vote, when a man named Ross Perot was talking about this, what it would be like when the United States created the free trade area of North America, NAFTA. And he said it would be a huge sucking sound of American jobs going to Mexico. And at the time, remember, Mexico was a country that was in and out of default. It survived on the IMF. It was like Argentina. It was basically Argentina of North America. And of course, NAFTA saved it. NAFTA saved it, but it became essentially the United States, the 51st state. And what's happening now? Let's talk about the free trade agreement of North America. Let's talk about NAFTA for a second. That idea was always to Mexico is our neighbor. They're always in and out of a financial crisis or an economic crisis. Let's help them with trade. Let's help them do this. And it was a success to a large extent, right? I mean, it's still way poorer than we are here in the U.S. and Canada. Way poorer. You can't compare the wages between the two countries; it's just at least three times more here. But countries, companies from around the world are going to Mexico now. So, Germany is setting up shop to make electric vehicles there. Of course, Korea and Hyundai make cars there. But a lot of those cars are for sale in Mexico. Those are big sellers in Mexico. But I highly doubt that the BMW electric vehicle is a high powered vehicle, a selling vehicle in Mexico. I don't think that's the market that is going to come here. The Japanese have been making steel in Mexico. That is coming here. That's coming here duty free. So, now NAFTA has become a trade zone for any multinational that wants to set up shop in Mexico. It's helping the Mexicans and the locals and the Mexican workers, but it's really a multinational free trade zone. If you can set up shop in Mexico and, of course, employ Mexicans and so on and pay Mexican taxes, you can sell your goods where? Well, to the biggest consumer economy in the world, right? You've got to sell them here. You're not setting up to sell there, I mean, Mexico, tiny. Your next door neighbour is right here. So, this is a problem, but that's free trade. That's the free trade topic. That's the free trade model. And people do not like it. Clearly, they do not like it. It doesn't mean they don't like free trade. Obviously, we want to trade. Again, you and I have a factory. We make a widget. We want to trade with the world. We do want to trade with the world. And that's not a bad thing. That's a good thing. There's nothing wrong with that. But again, if people perceive from the UK, from Germany, the United States; they perceive that their leaders were obsessed, that's changing, with this globalization model of one world kumbaya. Everything's going to be made in Asia. Everything's going to be made in Mexico. And they cannot survive. They cannot survive on that. And so either you're going to have a city and town where you have marijuana shops and treatment centers, and that's going to be your new industry and casinos, or you're going to have a place where people can survive making things like kitchen cabinets or furniture. And if you don't want that, if you don't want that, then okay, then admit you don't want that. And what are you going to do to replace it? Okay, then what do they say? Well, we're going to have universal basic income. So they know. They do come up with solutions, but that's their solution. That's their solution. And I'm not convinced that people are on board with that for the most part. I don't know. Maybe there are some lazy people who are fine with universal basic income. I'm sure there are people who would be fine with that. But people are against this globalization model, and it's being turned on its head in the West, and it is a source of a lot of political problems. And of course, China is the 10,000 pound gorilla, whatever that saying goes in the room. And everybody, everybody sees that now. It was Trump really that made people see that, but Europe seeing it now as well. So, where that leads in the years ahead, I don't know. People clearly do not like the setup the way it was pre Trump, let's say pre Brexit, where the goal was: hey, we're just going to make everything in China. We're gonna make everything in Asia. And that's it. You can learn to become a new EDM DJ and you now train for Eurovision and maybe you'll get lucky and that's that's the extent of it. Well, we've got UBI coming in Wales as a test bed but that's a whole other conversation with Wales; have found how you get free money which is a change in how humanity works. I want to ask, you did another post looking at, I think the title was, U.S. Risks Losing Its Status as an Exemplar of a Free Country with Laws. And you talked about China's soft power slowly winning hearts and minds, see it in developing countries, in other countries it's not. But there does seem to be that move from that kind of American dream, everyone wants to come to America to see the sights, the sounds, to see the miracle that's America. That seems to now be moving towards China with a huge focus on it. So, what are your thoughts? Tell us more about that, about the US losing that position, having its soft power of influence worldwide. Well, for starters, America is still seen as a place in Europe as well, as a place where people from developing countries want to go. If we were seen as a failing society and failing countries, I would assume people from other failing countries wouldn't want to come here. But, I don't know how informed these people are about what it looks like today in the streets of San Francisco. How much it costs to live in New York City? They might still believe that, you know, California is paved with gold and they can become, you know, Hollywood actors in a year or two, you know, singing and dancing on the streets of Hollywood and Vine. Maybe they believe that. They'll learn from Rude Awakening. But that sort of vision of the United States may still exist in Latin in parts of Latin America. I believe that is eroding. OK, now on the China side with soft power, of course. You know so soft power is defined as, you know, diplomacy but it's also defined as culture. And it's also defined as corporate branding. So, culture United States wins hands down. Everybody knows Hollywood right: American music. We got Taylor Swift. China doesn't have the Chinese salesman, you know. So, we have you know the rock and so on. We have all these movies that's an immeasurable positive for the United States, culturally. But in terms of diplomacy and just soft power in general. Let's look at what happened recently. So, you have Russia's war with Ukraine. So, obviously Russia is part of the big four emerging markets. It's part of the BRIC collective. And these guys have been, these leaders of these countries have been talking and developing relationships for at least, I would say 20 years now. When the West asked all these countries to support them in their view on Russia, to a man, none of them went along with it. None of them. This is completely different than what it was like in the 80s. If you tell Brazil: hey, we need you to send some weapons to Ukraine. Brazil couldn't say no. Because the United States said, well, we're going to hold back that IMF loan. We're going to hold back that development loan for that bridge you're trying to build, that dam you want. Either you give, either you start putting out, make it look like you're on our side and start churning out some ammo for the Ukrainians or the money for that hydroelectric dam is off the table. That's not a thing anymore. That's not a thing anymore. The United States has lost that. So, when you see countries in the developing world that can say no to the West, say no to Europe and the United States, right, and ignore them. That is a sign that the soft power of the West is eroding. I'm not saying that's eroding in favour of China. But it's eroding in sense of there is imbalance in the world, right? There's a sense of that people in developing world, the leaders in developing world is saying, we don't want the unipolar view anymore, right? Let's, let's, let's go more of a multi-polar view, Right. Maybe that doesn't mean China's in the lead. We don't know who the multipolar is going to be. We don't know. But there is a pushback against the United States way. And I don't know. I think there was a real severing of that with with COVID, honestly, because, everybody in the world saw how the West treated its people during COVID. I mean, we saw what China did, right? Locking people in apartments in Wuhan and so on. We saw those things. Saw that. And who knows? That could have, for all we know here in the West, that could have been just orchestrated to make it look to us in the West that this disease is so bad. Look what the Chinese are doing. They have to literally lock people in their homes or they'll die. This is how bad it is. So, that could have been a psy-op in a way for all I know. But you had people in Canada losing their bank accounts. You had people in the United States being arrested for protesting lockdowns. You had people vilified for it, and so on. While Black Lives Matter and Antifa were able to parade around. Of course, they had their science-y masks on. So, I guess that was all good. And breaking things and knocking statues down and whatever. And they were fine. So that six feet distance didn't matter to them. And people around the world see that. I remember even the president of Mexico said, Obrador, He said, you know, COVID showed the Western world authoritarianism. He showed that the Western world can be authoritarian, just like, what they always criticize us as a being, you know. I mean, this is fascinating. This is not a language that you would hear Mexico ever say about the United States. You'd be instantly punished. What does Mexico do to the United States to help us police the border? What does Mexico do for the United States to help us stop fentanyl? Do you ever hear about them beating up on Sinaloa or Jalisco? I mean, unless like the DEA is involved, those guys just run around free like you and I, you know, going to get a sandwich in a local shop. I mean, there's nothing happening there to fight it, right? So, you know, and I think I look at that as being a sign. That is a sign that the West really is no longer the exemplar on a lot of the issues that it was. On issues like democracy, where all this talk about misinformation and control. That there is sort of a severing of ties, if you will, from the developing world with the West. And I'm not saying that China is going to replace it. We don't want that. But I'm also of the mind that there are many people in the West who really like the China model, and they wouldn't even complain if the China model replaced ours, because they love the top-down societal government control aspects of the CCP. And many of them think in the West that they can just wrap it in the pretty bows of diversity, inclusion and environmental justice. And all the urban educated classes will say: oh, that that sounds reasonable. That sounds like a good way to go. Within the eyes of the developing world. It's very difficult for me to say that they are all going to agree with the U.S. on certain things. That wasn't the case when we were kids. It was not. America was always the right, always in the right, always. Now it's like, you know, they might not agree. They're not going to go along with it. No, you've seen in Africa, especially China using their financial muscle to go in to start massive infrastructure projects for the Belt and Braces. And America seems to be very much hands off. And it seems to be as the West is maybe moved away from parts of Africa, China has gone into to that vacuum and imposed itself. And now is building infrastructure across the continent. The west then scratch your heads and wonder why they have less power. Well, it's because you've handed that industrial, that financial power, over to China and they are now the ones that rule, because of those tight contracts. And they're the ones that get people from A to B by building a road or building a railway. So, they're the ones that Africa need, and no longer the west. Yeah. And you know, where did they come up with this idea? This was what the West did. This was the United States did in the post-World War II, right? The United States went to the world and said, we're going to help rebuild. We're going to get you modernized. That was soft power. We're going to get you on our side. We're going to get you to see things our way. We're going to get you to be our political and economic partner. And so we don't really see that as much anymore. We don't really see that as much anymore. I don't really know why. Maybe it is like a late empire pirate type situation, right? Where we're worried more about silly things, cultural issues. That the other part of the world doesn't worry about. I mean, I think that was something famously said by someone in Africa. They said, look, China comes here giving us money to build roads and bridges. And when you guys come here, you give us lectures on gender, or climate change, right? But that's not to say the Africans don't want American business. I'm sure they do. But that's not, in a lot of ways, that's not what the United States is in there for. And I think only recently the United States has realized, oh, they've seen the error of their ways. Because where I work, I get to sit in on a lot of these hearings in Congress. And I know that they want to counter China in that way. But it's a knee-jerk react to China. It's a knee-jerk react to China. It's not necessarily a long-term planning thing. So, okay, well, how do we go to this country and propose this? What else can we do? Everything is a knee jerk. And that is a problem, but at least they see that they've been caught on the back foot over the last few years. Whereas China has in terms of soft power, diplomacy, getting their corporate brands all over the world that they see now, wow, we're losing. We're losing a lot of that. Think about it. I remember my first time going to Latin America in the 90s. I'm sure this was the case in the 80s and the 70s. Ford, McDonald's, Hollywood, those were symbols. Those are like the unpaid American ambassadors. And so look today; you can probably count on one hand, unless you drive a German car, how many German item products you have in your, in your house. You know, I have a Miele vacuum cleaner. I think that's German, you know, but for the most part, your kid has TikTok on their phone. You might have a Lenovo computer or a Lexmark printer in your office. There's a lot of Chinese corporate brands that are very well known. You probably, your kid probably buys clothes on Shein or, or you probably shop on Temu, right? What's the European equivalent to that? I don't know of any. I can't name one big European app, honestly. I just can't. And even e-commerce, I can't think of a single one. So, this is China. So, this is the soft power. These are very important issues for the United States that used to dominate that, for example, in Latin America. And now they do not. They do not dominate that at all. It's China that is moving in; China is moving in the auto industry. China is moving in big retail and in some areas even finance. So, you know, I think that's an interesting look to see. What's it going to be like in another generation? China may be seen as a better partner. And as I mentioned in Daily Caller, there was a survey by the Singaporean think tank run by the government that showed a small amount, I think it was 50.4%, so it's almost 50-50, of government leaders. Not just men on the street, who said, strategically they felt it was better the dial was moving a little bit more towards China than the United States. Even the fact that it's 50-50 should be worrying to the U.S., right? I'm speaking as an American here, right? It should be worrying that it's even 50-50, but it is. And so that goes to show the power of China. Not just militarily and all this stuff, but just doing business with China and then seeing things China's way in many degrees. Well, it's true. Then that report, Singapore report of the Southeast, it makes you realize that China doesn't actually need to use its military power, because obviously it is ramping up its military spending, wanting to actually impose itself on the South China Sea, make sure America is not there. In one way, it needs to do that because I guess you've got Taiwan and Japan maybe as entities that are not pro-China. But everywhere else, in one way, trade is actually building bridges with those countries. There's actually less reason for China to spend all that huge amount of money on military power whenever soft power through trade and commerce. That's actually winning over Southeast Asia. Oh, absolutely. They're more connected to Asia, more connected to China because of commerce. A lot of Chinese multinationals, especially, have been setting up shop in Southeast Asia to make everything from LED light bulbs to furniture and so on, solar panels are huge in Vietnam and Malaysia. Chinese multinationals are all there and they're selling it all over the world. Most of the United States and Europe. But again, China does want to build up its military because they see, and this is one thing I think the military worries about, is they see this. They think the military is a good place for me to have an industrial base. The military is a good place for me to make big products, big expensive items, maybe like a drone. Drones are a big thing now. Autonomous ships. Autonomous aircraft. China's big on that. I don't know if Russia makes those. So, who is the United States competing with a lot of times for like military contracts in Asia? Russia? So, India might buy, or Saudi Arabia. So India might buy an F-15, but it might also buy a Sukhoi. Might buy both. Might buy a MiG. Might buy an F-15. But now China's saying, hey, wait a minute. Why don't I also; so let them buy. I don't know anything about China. A China fighting tiger. Now, all of a sudden the Vietnamese don't just have F-15s. They got a Chinese fighting tiger too. So it's very important for China to move into the military, not because they want to protect the South China Sea or get the U.S. Military out of there, get that U.S. military protectorate agreement out of Asia because China sees this is my backyard, not yours. And they're going to muscle in and give options. But also, in thinking of the military as a product, I have autonomous boats. Hey, Vietnam, you want to have a coast guard? You want to police illegal fishing? You want whatever? You want to place drugs in the Malibu Straits without getting your soldiers injured? I got autonomous boats. America makes autonomous boats, but we're even better at it. And that's a big deal. That's a huge deal. People don't realize. All of a sudden, who's competing with the United States? Who's competing with Lockheed Martin to make an autonomous boat? The Chinese. Look, when you think of flying internationally,  there's only two planes you've ever been on. You've been on a Boeing and you've been on an Airbus. But now China, I only know the abbreviation of the company, it's called Comac, has the C, I think it's called the C919. Yeah. And that's an international wide-body jet that's going to take you from Shanghai to Paris. Well, guess what? So one day when that plane is seen as doing, in terms of safety record is solid and whatever, the airlines are going to buy that; going to buy a Comac instead of an Airbus, instead of a Boeing. And guess what else is even more interesting? Do you think that the Chinese are going to subsidize a Boeing jet or an Airbus plane? No, they're going to subsidize Comac, so Comac can become the Vietnamese airline of choice carrier. Maybe not Japan, because the United States would muscle in there, I'm sure. Maybe even France would, too. Maybe even Vietnam in the case of France and Vietnam. No. But other areas like Kazakhstan, Russia, for example, Aeroflot would probably be alright. I don't even I don't even envision a future of Aeroflot in Russia using Airbus and Boeing. I don't. I don't even see why they would want to if that Comac jet is safe. Well, you know, Boeing planes, their doors fall off in mid-flight lately. So, if the Comac is safe, why would Russia want to buy an American or a French plane? The Americans and the French hate him. I agree. I'm a plane buff, and I think I would rather fly on a Chinese aircraft than a Boeing at the moment. The aircraft could be better. I just want to finish on another issue. I think one of your tweets was that the established powers of the West love the CCP model of social control and governance. And you made the wrap it up in this diversity. But this whole thing on the control that China have on their citizens, and obviously during COVID, the West suddenly thought, oh, we can now use this to actually control our citizens. And then in the UK, you realize that a lot of our CCTV systems on the streets; and a lot of the CCTV systems used in shops are actually Chinese systems. So, who knows where the data goes? But it's interesting how the West looking at China, once again, it's China that will provide the infrastructure and the setup for the West. The West kind of look at that. They would like some of that control. And China, again, are the world leaders. And once again, they provide what the West wants to control the citizens. Yeah, they're sort of like a petri dish in a way, right? The Chinese people of what the West would like. Now, the Western world, because you live in democracies where people still have a say, people still have a say. But that's changing. Yeah, because they can vilify in the West and use the media and say that people like Peter who think that this way, they're conspiracy theorists, they're right wingers, they're fascists, whatever it is, they're transphobic, they don't believe in science. The whole nine yards, the usual things, right? Right. That's how they get the other half of society to sort of bludgeon you. They shut. So the government doesn't have to do anything. Right. The other half, the other half of polite society could say, oh, that Peter guy has a weird views of things. What's wrong with surveillance? He's not we're not doing anything bad. So what? Look, I'm of the mind that in the West, because we are a democracy and people still have a say, they have to divide the people in a way that when you are opposed to the regime, when you're opposed to the government, you're going to be a person who's spreading misinformation. You're going to be someone who needs to be censored. You're going to be someone who needs to be punished. That is the way that they're able to corral people who don't want to be punished, don't want to be censored, don't want to be vilified. And they can be on this team regime. They can be on the side of the power. So if you were looking at China, you'd be on the side of the CCP. Why would China, why would an average Chinese person want to go against the CCP? You see what happens. So, in the US and in Europe, you're doing that with different laws, like misinformation, you're trying to shut down that debate, trying to shut down people, allowing people to talk about certain things. So, you can vilify them or you can just end it at all. But at least, at the very least, vilify these people so that the other half of society, whether it's a third or whether it's a half, I don't know, can say, yeah, you know, those people deserve to be punished. Those people deserve to be ostracized from society. [40:20] And that gives, of course, the government more control. Because they can't control. They can't just come out and say, we're going to do this. We're going to give you digital currency and program what you can buy or whatever. That's not going to happen. That can, to some extent, happen in China. It'd be very hard to do, do that in the West, but you know, I'm of the mind that they won't, they won't succeed at this. I hope, I hope, I hope not. I could, I could be wrong. We can, we can tell what you can talk about this for hours. You almost need a theologian to talk about some of these issues because, I think that people, because of all these alternative media people like yourself, Peter, right? They've come out and they're, they're almost ahead. That we're one step ahead of how the powers that be think, or at least we understand how they think. We can analyze it and we can come out and say, this is what they could do. Maybe we're wrong. But if we're right, then it's almost like these guys can't do it. You know what I mean? Because now it's like, well, I know we said we weren't going to do it. We did it. But it is a good idea because. And then when you keep having to do that, what happens? What's happening in the West? You delegitimize the system. You delegitimize the institution because of that gaslighting. Because you said you weren't going to do this. The guys you said were spreading misinformation said you were going to do it. You did do it. And then you said, yeah, but it's good that we did it. You can't keep doing that in society. But that's the way that the West moves to a China control like model because they just can't do it. We don't live in a dictatorship. You can't just do it. But that's the way that they move you in that direction. But as long as people like yourself and others in media, and of course, you have a big star in the UK, Russell Brand, he's huge, he's big here in the United States. As long as they're up ahead of that, then I think it becomes harder, because more people are aware, more people are curious about how the powers are trying to control things in their life. And then it's less likely that they will succeed, you know. It is less likely they succeed when more people are aware of what's at stake and more people are aware of what the planning is or how their thinking is. As long as we want to be free people and don't live like the CCP runs China, then we know that the guys who perfectly fine with us living like the CCP. We can be out ahead of them, then we can stop it, because they don't want to, they don't want to be embarrassed. They don't want to look like fools. In the worst case scenario, they will get more aggressive, more vicious and just keep pushing and pushing and pushing. And I think that's, unfortunately, that's the, this, this, the place we find ourselves now in Europe, the UK, the United States and Canada. And it's going to be very interesting to see what happens in the next few years. It will be and we'll see how November changes things because we've little pushback in Europe so I think the U.S have a chance of some pushback in November. You did have a big pushback with that farmer protest that was pretty serious. I think that the farmer protest was really eye-opening for a lot of people. I think, didn't it didn't disrupt some government in the Netherlands or Denmark? I forget, but some somebody was overthrown or a political party that was in... It overthrew the government of the Netherlands, in effect. The issue is actually when you protest, you have media you highlighted, then you're looking for a political solution to come in on the back of that, and Europe haven't yet got that. Now, the European Union elections will be interesting coming up in only months, and that could change things. But yeah, whether the EU are able to remove themselves from China's pocket is a big question, just like it is from the state side, whether you guys can remove yourself from that and China have done well on, I guess, embedding themselves into all our institutions. Look. In Europe, I think the issue with the renewable energy side that they're talking about now and China really dominating that market, that might see them split a little bit with China. So, that'll be interesting to watch to see how the Europeans, which promote climate change, want renewable, want a post-fossil fuel economy, and then go, oh, wait a minute now. We want a post-fossil fuel economy, but we literally have nothing to make a post-fossil fuel economy. Yeah, we have EVs, but we don't have an EV battery maker. Yeah, we have wind, but we have no solar to speak of. If we do, it's small little companies. They're all dominated by the Chinese. It's like Peter and Ken's solar manufacturing plant. We employ a thousand people and we have a few rooftops in southern Spain have our product. But we're not big players. No one's afraid of us. Maybe we're happily employing a few people and making some money until the Chinese come in and buy us out, whatever. They don't have the infrastructure for that. I think I'd be curious to see how Europe reacts to China within the renewable energy space. And I see that as being where China really becomes, well, Europe really splinters off from China because they're not going to be able to compete with China in that market. And they consider that to be, obviously, what Europe always talks about is climate change. They consider that to be probably their most important market in the future. Yeah, 100%. More solar panels from China will solve everything. Yeah, the temperature will fall at least at one degree over the next 20 years Kenneth, I really appreciate you coming on. I've loved following your twitter and obviously your many articles on daily caller. People can get in the description if they're watching. If they're listening it's there as well now the podcast platform so thank you so much for joining us and giving us your thoughts on China. Thanks for having me on Peter, appreciate it.

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