The Currency Mike Gastin

Crashing container ships, chocolate and the global supply chain, Trump and the market, and Legoland follows Wendy's in going in on surge pricing.







































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The state of Texas just pulled $8.5 Billion from Blackrock in response to Blackrock's hostility to hydrocarbon-related investments. In this episode we talk about this, plus the Biden Admin's announcement today that they're "forgiving" $6 Billion in student debt for public-service workers, and Reddit's IPO.







































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Wendy's announced they're rolling out surge pricing on this food—and then they changed their tune. We're on it in this episode of The Currency.







































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Myron Weber joins me for a discussion on virtue as it applies to business and to life. This conversation was also broadcast as a livestream on YouTube.







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Learn more about my guest, Myron Weber: https://www.northwoodadvisors.com







































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We conclude our seven-part series on Eric Voegelin's groundbreaking work, "The New Science of Politics". In this episode we talk about the current state of Western societies, especially the efforts of the Gnostics to immanentize the Christian eschaton, as well as the two dangers of Gnosticism that will lead to it's collapse.







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Here's a list of all the episodes in the series.









Voegelin on Representation







Voegelin on Cosmological Representation







Voegelin on the Anthropological Principle, the Psyche & the Transcendent







Voegelin on Soteriological Truth & Ancient Rome







Voegelin on Re-Divination, Joachim of Flora & Gnosticism







Voegelin on the Puritans







Voegelin on Today









Get a copy of Voegelin's work from Amazon: The New Science of Politics.







































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Journalism, as well as a wider press, dramatically changed after 1947. And it was all because of a report published by an influential commission of that time. Listen in as Mike Gastin shares the details of the report, the commission that published it, and why it's lead to a current-day media that few trust.







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The Commission on Freedom of the Press' "A Free and Responsible Press" on Amazon.







Check out Jack Hart's great book on writing: "A Writer's Coach" (It seems to be out of print.)







And of course, here is William Zinsser's must-have classic: "On Writing Well"







Last, but not least, Stephen King's, "On Writing"









































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