Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike and Jay open with a look at the ongoing government shutdown due to the impasse over border wall funding. The Guys actually agree as to their preferred solution – a package that includes funds for border security and comprehensive immigration reform. Neither Mike nor…
Mike and Jay open with a look at the ongoing government shutdown due to the impasse over border wall funding. The Guys actually agree as to their preferred solution – a package that includes funds for border security and comprehensive immigration…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS On this listener mail episode, Mike and Jay discuss: If Jay is spreading vote fraud falsehoods to advance a right-wing agenda. Two international views on mandatory voting If term limits lead to more courageous politicians The sneaky (but legal) way the Michigan legislature undid a…
Just like the federal government, we’re shut down. But unlike the federal government, we know when we’ll be back – Wednesday, January 2. If you’re one of our Patreon supporters, we’ll be posting things over our short break, including a great…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike and Jay open their final show of 2018 with a discussion of the partial government shutdown caused by President Trump’s unwillingness to sign a spending bill that doesn’t include at least $5 billion in border wall funding. House Republicans obliged him, but there aren’t…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike talks with Tyler Cowen, a professor of Economics at George Mason University, blogger at Marginal Revolution, host of the ‘Conversations with Tyler‘ podcast, regular contributor at ‘Bloomberg Opinion‘, and author of a number of books including The Great Stagnation, Average is Over, The Complacent…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Trey is joined this week by Athena King. The two begin by looking at the ongoing developments in the roll of chief of staff. Several individuals, including this week Chris Christie, have turned down the position. Announced just before the show, Mick Mulvaney is named…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS In this listener comment show, Mike & Jay address questions concerning: The complexity of the U.S. system of government. Minimizing partisan advantage in redistricting. The moral foundations of conservative and liberal thinking. If Jay was wrong about election misconduct in Florida. Whether mandatory voting is…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS This week’s show opens with Jay’s thoughts on the life and presidency of George H.W. Bush. Mike, who like Jay greatly admired Bush, adds that it wasn’t long after Bush left office that the GOP took a decisive turn toward a nastier, more in-your-face approach…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Will and Mike open the show with an analysis of President Trump’s criticism of Fed Chair Jerome Powell. As part of the discussion, they walk through the role of the Fed and the differences between fiscal and monetary policy. They agree that Trump’s politicization of…