How Money Actually Works
When the government hires private contractors to deliver welfare, often these companies essentially steal people’s benefits through a variety of mechanisms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXpqejgnaB0
Tag: government
This Is Why People Hate the Government | The Ezra Klein Show
When the government makes applying for welfare hard, they mostly just waste a lot of people’s time and make it so people who qualify for benefits do not get them because the application is too burdensome. Such qualifications don’t boost employment, they just make poor people suffer more.
It’s easier to get subsidies that mostly go to those with higher incomes.
When you make qualifying for benefits difficult, you make it harder to track fraud. The biggest fraudsters are organized actors that know how to get around complex requirements. More fraud is doctors and wealthy people cheating on payments and tax subsidies, than poor people cheating to get food or healthcare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oZd7wpZuAc
Socialists Are WINNING Elections. Mehdi & Sam Seder Explain Why
We can hope that Trump’s corruption and authoritarian tendencies are gone with him, but the damage done to the government’s ability to implement policies that help those in need, protect people from the powerful, and invest in the future…this destruction will be difficult to rebuild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0a8tR6e68
What Happened to DOGE? | Interview: Ronald Bailey
The government is not a business. Trying to run it as a business doesn’t work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj0xRpWIqE4
Before the Great Recession, “The Warning” (full documentary)
Congress was warned well ahead of time about how the lack of regulation and transparency would lead to a great crash when many big institutions were all making the same bets and making the same assumptions. Congress didn’t listen. They listened to the Ayn Rand follower Alan Greenspan instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ25uZtey34
Russ Vought is Destroying American Science
Russ Vought is Destroying American Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxUgs4YVlOw
Externalities in Theory
Externalities in Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmpZwTUbjjI&list=PLUl4u3cNGP62KS2YhlASvGBxxL8HgB11p&index=3
Why governments can borrow more than they think. Prof. Bezemer
“There is no simple relation between government spending and inflation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=346rx5Mc9Ng
Trump is destroying what it means to be an American.
Trump is destroying what it means to be an American.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHEoPFrZIhw
The Iran Escalation Trap | Robert Pape | TMR
Regime change wars have never been successful from the air with conventional weapons. Administrations get wooed by the ability to strike targets with precision from afar, and forget that blowing a bunch of stuff up and killing important people doesn’t end a regime’s ability to suppress its people or fight back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YptXQ3UFumQ