Talking about
the "things that matter most" on April 9
The Best of Kresta in the Afternoon
4:00 – It Didn't Have
to Be This Way: Why Boom and Bust Is Unnecessary-and How the Austrian School of
Economics Breaks the Cycle
Why is the boom-and-bust cycle so
persistent? Why did economists fail to predict the economic meltdown that began
in 2007—or to pull us out of the crisis more quickly? And how can we prevent
future calamities? Economist Harry
Veryser tells the fascinating (but frightening) story of how our modern
economic condition developed. The most recent recession, far from being an
isolated incident, was part of a larger cycle that has been the scourge of the
West for a century—a cycle rooted in government manipulation of markets and
currency. The lesson is clear: the devastation of the recent economic
crisis—and of stagflation in the 1970s, and of the Great Depression in the
1930s—could have been avoided. It didn’t have to be this way. He makes his
case.
5:00 – What to Expect
When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster
Look around you and
think for a minute: Is America too crowded? For years, we have been warned
about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a
planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and
everything else. It’s all bunk. The “population bomb” never exploded. Instead,
statistics from around the world make clear that since the 1970s, we’ve been
facing exactly the opposite problem: people are having too few babies. Jonathan Last is here to explain
why the population implosion happened and how it is remaking culture, the
economy, and politics both at home and around the world. Because if America
wants to continue to lead the world, we need to have more babies.
Can't we just allow more legal immigrants?
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