Conversations with Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Artists and Thinkers
The Bill Walton Show
#Big Ideas #Conservative #Libertarian #Progressive
10/23/2019
Guest(s): Arnold Kling, John Tamny
John Tamny and Arnold Kling discuss the problems of political parties in the US – and why are political elites still buying oceanfront property if the world climate crisis is so dire.
Read More#China #Economics #Policy #Trade
10/16/2019
Guest(s): Robert D. Atkinson
Robert D. Atkinson, founder and president of ITIF, describes the United States role in the war for influence and control.
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Guest(s): Reggie Littlejohn, Robert Epstein
Dr. Robert Epstein and Reggie Littlejohn describe how a leaked internal Google video describes their goal of impacting the beliefs, attitudes, purchases, and votes of 2.5 billion people around the world. ...
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#Big Ideas #Environment #Law #Policy #Regulation
09/12/2019
Guest(s): Myron Ebell
Is the climate debate fueled by overheated climate models, inflated CO2 emission scenarios, disregarded basic data on human health and well being, and relentless exaggeration by political interests claiming to speak for “the science”?
Read More#Arts #Culture #History #Policy
08/15/2019
Guest(s): CD Dickerson
C.D. Dickerson, III, Curator, and Head of Sculpture Department at the National Gallery of Art, comments on issues around art ownership and repatriation – including art that was taken from Africa in the colonial era that now resides in museums all over the world.
Read More#Arts #Culture #History #Policy
08/15/2019
Guest(s): CD Dickerson
C.D. Dickerson, III, Curator, and Head of Sculpture Department at the National Gallery of Art, comments on issues around art ownership and repatriation – including art that was taken from Africa in the colonial era that now resides in museums all over the world.
Read More#Culture and Society #Progressive #Social Media
08/08/2019
Guest(s): Brent Bozell, Dan Gainor
Has Facebook corporate become a parody? They banned a Prager University video on the “Ten Commandments.” Their explanation? “Well, it mentioned murder.” Maybe next time Prager should do a video on the “Nine Commandments.”
Read More#China #Economics #History #International #National Security #Trade
08/01/2019
Guest(s): Kevin Freeman, Frank Gaffney
For decades, the U.S. has given China preferred trade & economic status. In a long overdue effort, President Trump is now negotiating new and more balanced trade deals with China, but however effective new trade deals will prove to be, they cannot address the many other dangers posed by China’s Communist Party.
Read More#China #Economics #History #International #National Security #Trade
Guest(s): Kevin Freeman, Frank Gaffney
Our military has a disturbing tendency to keep fighting the last wars, not the likely future ones. Now a visionary general is being forced into retirement because he’s advocating a very different approach to counter Chinese aims to achieve dominance in space.
Read More#Big Ideas #Capitalism #Economics #Entrepreneurship #Human Agency #Human Flourishing #Innovation #Success Strategies #Trade
06/27/2019
Guest(s): Jay Richards
We know from history and evidence all around us, which economic system works, and which one makes people the happiest. It’s the economic system of free enterprise. But is it the most moral? Bill Walton explores the question with Jay Richards, author of the newly reissued book “Money, Greed and God.”
Read More#Big Ideas #Capitalism #Economics #Entrepreneurship #Human Agency #Human Flourishing #Innovation #Success Strategies #Trade
06/27/2019
Guest(s): Jay Richards
Economics as a discipline suffers from “physics envy” when it tries and fails to build mathematical models of the economy and society. Instead, it should be studying human behavior and focus on the intersection of health, morality, philosophy, wealth creation and how to bring people out of poverty, Jay Richards says on The Bill Walton Show.
Read More#Capitalism #Economics #Federal Reserve #Markets #Money #Policy #Saving and Investing #Trade
06/06/2019
Guest(s): George Selgin, Norbert Michel
If the Fed brought home a report card reflecting its performance since its creation in 1914, its parents would not be pleased. Its record for stability is among the worst in the developed world, and it has done little to fix the problems it was invented to address.
Read More#China #History #Human Agency #Human Flourishing #International #National Security #Socialism
05/09/2019
Guest(s): Chen Guangcheng, Reggie Littlejohn, Huchen Zhang
Americans’ theory that more trade with China would open up the country to more democracy has been proven wrong. In fact, say Reggie Littlejohn, Huchen Zhang and Chen Guancheng on The Bill Walton Show, they have backfired. “You cannot tolerate evil. You cannot treat evil with kindness,” Zhang said.
Read More#Big Ideas #Libertarian #Markets #Money #Saving and Investing #Success Strategies #Trump
05/07/2019
Guest(s): John Tamny, Ken Fisher
Ken Fisher on: coastal redwoods, dikes, efficient markets, quantitative easing, the limits of our knowledge, climate change, the fed, interest rates, why $100 billion isn’t that much money, money flows around the world like water downhill, tree science, behavioral science, why philanthropy is immoral and bad for humans, optimization of scarce resources, Bastiat, financial system intermediation and why inequality is a good thing.
Read More#Big Ideas #Libertarian #Markets #Money #Saving and Investing #Success Strategies #Trump
05/07/2019
Guest(s): John Tamny, Ken Fisher
Ken Fisher on: coastal redwoods, dikes, efficient markets, quantitative easing, the limits of our knowledge, climate change, the fed, interest rates, why $100 billion isn’t that much money, money flows around the world like water downhill, tree science, behavioral science, why philanthropy is immoral and bad for humans, optimization of scarce resources, Bastiat, financial system intermediation and why inequality is a good thing.
Read More#Economics #History #Law #Policy #Politics #Regulation #Trade
04/25/2019
Guest(s): Jonathan Williams, Seth Grove
There are right ways for states to manage their economies – and some very wrong ones. So if you wanted to make your state more prosperous, wouldn’t it be helpful to have the tools to determine how it will perform years into the future? They exist.
Read More#Deep State #Law #Politics #Regulation #Ritual Defamation #Trump
04/18/2019
Guest(s): Ron Nicol, Ed Meese
We had the good fortune to have Ron Nicol and Edwin Meese on The Bill Walton Show the day the Mueller report was released. Meese, a former U.S. Attorney General, says Robert Mueller should have made a decision on obstruction of justice by the president and that at least one of his attorneys was a “totally irresponsible, unprofessional, unscrupulous lawyer” whom “should not be in any part of the Department of Justice.” There’s much more in this penetrating analysis by one of our foremost Constitutional authorities.”
Read More#Leadership #Success Strategies #Trump
04/18/2019
#Big Ideas #Environment #Habitat and Species #International #Protection
04/04/2019
Guest(s): Ron Maxwell, Skipper Darlington
The population of humans has almost tripled since 1950, and the impact on other species has been profound. Humans have absorbed vast amounts of habitat for living space and farmland, leading to the extinction of hundreds of species and threats to countless others. Ron Maxwell and Skipper Darlington join Bill Walton to talk about a radical but oddly simple and doable solution.
Read More#Big Ideas #Environment #Habitat and Species #International #Protection
04/04/2019
Guest(s): Ron Maxwell, Skipper Darlington
Species and habitat protection are issues that can be separated from polarizing disagreements about climate change. Everyone – on both the left and the right – ought to be able to come together to protect endangered species and their habitats. It’s a problem that humans have created and one that humans can solve.
Read More#Big Ideas #Capitalism #Economics #Markets #Socialism #Trade
03/21/2019
Guest(s): Richard Rahn
“The economy of Venezuela has collapsed as a result of gross socialist mismanagement. Their currency is essentially worthless. To start over, the next government of Venezuela must re-establish the rule of law, protect private property rights and create a new currency.” So writes Richard Rahn, one of America’s most brilliant economists.
Read More#China #Economics #History #International #National Security #Trade
03/14/2019
Guest(s): James Stark, Stefan Halper
In China, the U.S. confronts an adversary that saw itself as the Middle Kingdom –the center of the universe –for 3,000 years, then endured a century of humiliation and now seeks to return to what it sees as its rightful place in the world. Join Bill Walton as he and veteran Washington foreign policy experts Dr. Stefan Halper and Adm. James Stark discuss China’s comprehensive program to dominate its region and to challenge the U.S for cultural, economic and military superiority.
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03/01/2019
Guest(s): Carl Schramm
An entire industry – mostly government-funded – has sprung up around the idea of creating entrepreneurs. Don’t buy any of it. Don’t buy college. Don’t buy business incubators. Don’t buy mentors – you probably know more about what it takes to succeed in your business than they do.
Read More#Entitlements #Health #History
02/21/2019
Guest(s): John Steele Gordon
Did you know there was no health insurance until 1930 and that 90 percent of today’s medical care did not even exist in 1950? Yet, health insurance has not evolved to match the innovation or the demand. On this week’s edition of “The Bill Walton Show,” economic author John Steele Gordon and I discuss how our antiquated health insurance system has utterly failed to keep pace with modern medicine, how our healthcare system became such a tangled, costly mess and where we can find simple, free market solutions.
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