Podcast
🗣️ Rick Cole on Strong Towns: Budgets, Morality, and Local Action #379
Episode description This Strong Towns podcast episode features a conversation between Chuck Marone and Rick Cole, a seasoned public servant with experience as a mayor, city manager, and council member. They discuss Cole’s extensive background in local government,...
🏘️ Brainerd’s Budget: A City’s Hard Financial Reality #408
Episode description This article from Strong Towns, part of a series on city finances, contrasts the budgetary realities of cities with those of national governments, arguing that cities operate more like households. Focusing on Brainerd, Minnesota, the piece utilizes...
🏘️ The Housing-Ready City: A Toolkit for Local Code Reform #378
Episode description The Housing-Ready City toolkit, published by Strong Towns, addresses the pressing issue of housing affordability by advocating for local regulatory reforms. It presents six key policy changes that cities can implement to increase housing supply and...
🤯 Terrence Howard on Tech Theft, Science Clash, and Unlimited Energy #407
Episode description This YouTube transcript captures a wide-ranging conversation featuring actor Terrence Howard, who passionately discusses his controversial scientific theories on unlimited energy, a revised understanding of the universe, and his patents, including...
🤫 Suppressed Inventions: Hidden Energy Technologies and the Invention Secrecy Act#406
Episode description This YouTube video transcript explores the premise that technologies capable of revolutionizing energy production and transportation have been suppressed due to economic and political interests. The speaker highlights historical figures like...
🌀 Terrence: Gravity as Effect, Planetary and Galactic Formation #405
Episode description The YouTube transcript from “THP Development Videos” features Terrence explaining a physics simulation model that proposes gravity is an effect of external pressures, not an internal cause like mass attraction. His model uses vortexes and particle...
💡 Universal Truths: Challenging Misconceptions in Science and Mathematics #404
Episode description This source presents Terrence DaShon Howard’s alternative perspective on mathematics and the universe, asserting that conventional mathematics contains fundamental errors, particularly concerning the number one and the square root of two. Howard...
📜 Vices and Crimes: Individual Liberty vs. State Control #403
Episode description Lysander Spooner’s 1875 essay, “Vices are Not Crimes,” argues that actions harming only oneself or one’s property are vices, distinct from crimes which infringe upon others. Spooner, a natural-rights theorist, contends that government should only...
📉 Federal Regulation and Economic Growth #402
Episode description The Mises Institute article, “The Growth Effects of Federal Regulation,” examines the impact of government regulation on economic prosperity. It highlights a study by economist John W. Dawson that quantifies regulation by counting pages in the Code...
💰 Prices, Monopoly, and Discrimination #401
Episode description This Mises Institute excerpt from Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action analyzes various facets of prices within a market economy. It examines concepts such as goodwill, its impact on selling, and its relation to competition. The text further explores...