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02/25/2023

Episode 216: “What The Grateful Dead and Successful Dealmakers Have in Common” with Marc Morgenstern

Guest(s): Marc H. Morgenstern

Backstage with Bill Walton In this episode I compare notes and share stories with veteran dealmaker and entrepreneur Marc Morgenstern. In today’s polarized world, where people seem intent on not agreeing, Marc has had a long and successful career helping opposing sides come to…

02/16/2023

Episode 215: “To Shrink Government, Cut Taxes: How the States are Doing It” with Grover Norquist

Guest(s): Grover Norquist

For an excellent primer about how the politics of our over-complicated state and local tax systems operate, this conversation with Grover Norquist is absolutely the place to start.  It’s comprehensive, easy to understand and often humorous, as only Grover knows how to make it.…

02/10/2023

Episode 214: “Ukraine, The Balloon and the Loss of US Hegemony” with Brandon Weichert.

Guest(s): Brandon Weichert

Events are picking up pace rapidly on the world stage and I’ve asked my frequent guest Brandon Weichert to join me to help explain what’s happening. Brandon, geopolitical analyst and publisher of The Weichert Report, is among the best at connecting the dots globally…

01/31/2023

Episode 213: “It’s High Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine” with Stephen Bryen and David P. Goldman

Guest(s): Dr. Stephen Bryen

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds on, it’s nearly impossible for the ordinary observer to figure out what's really happening. One of the problems is that war news is generated primarily by Ukrainian propaganda, which is endlessly parroted in the Western media. Anytime there…

01/14/2023

Episode 212: “The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change” with Dr Jerome Corsi, PhD

Guest(s): Jerome Corsi

“This whole climate hysteria seems to focus on a molecule - carbon dioxide (CO2) - which we humans exhale and which we release into the atmosphere by burning so-called fossil fuels,” explains my guest on this episode Jerome Corsi, PhD. But what are realities…

12/20/2022

Episode 211: “It’s Happening According to Plan” with Kevin Freeman

Guest(s): Kevin Freeman

If someone wanted to weaken, then destroy a sovereign and free United States, what would they do? Well they might start with surrendering its energy independence. Make war on reliable fossil fuels oil and gas, coal and nuclear power.  Induce it to rely on…

12/13/2022

Episode 210: “Office Buildings: Will We Ever Go Back?” with John Scheurer

Guest(s): John Scheurer

In 2020, over 30 years later, futurist and management guru Peter Drucker’s prediction came true with a bang. With the mandated COVID lockdowns, suddenly everybody had to learn to work from home. Office occupancy plummeted from 90% to 10% and we all learned about…

11/30/2022

Episode 209: “The Money Confusion: Why Inflation Now?” with John Tamny

Guest(s): John Tamny

In 1974, with annual inflation raging over 12%, President Gerald Ford introduced WIN (“whip inflation now”) buttons telling Americans: “To help increase food and lower prices, grow more and waste less. To help save scarce fuel in the energy crisis, drive less, heat less.”…

11/23/2022

Episode 208: “How Policy Responses to the Pandemic Continue to Shatter Our World” with Jeffrey Tucker

Guest(s): Jeffrey Tucker

The world has suffered and continues to suffer catastrophic economic and social damage from the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 – but not from the virus itself. Rather we’re in the midst of a continuing global crisis created by governments’ policy responses to the pandemic.…

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