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The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Justin Haskins, present episode 298 of the In the Tank Podcast. The ITT crew starts off the show talking about the recently released “Fauci emails” and what it reveals about the administrative state. After that, they discuss Biden’s ridiculous budget proposal and El Salvador’s decision to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.  

 

OPENING CHIT CHAT – FAUCI EMAILS

Federalist – It’s Clear Now Anthony Fauci Isn’t A Fool, He’s A Villain

https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/07/its-clear-now-anthony-fauci-isnt-a-fool-hes-a-villain/

 

(Video) Fauci says attacks on him are attacks on science

https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1402717694135255049

 

BIDEN BUDGET

Heartland – How Biden’s Bloated Budget Could Cause an Economic Collapse

https://townhall.com/columnists/justinhaskins/2021/06/09/how-bidens-bloated-budget-could-cause-an-economic-collapse-n2590644

Cato – President Biden’s Proposed Budget

https://www.cato.org/blog/president-bidens-proposed-budget

 

EL SALVADOR ADOPTS BITCOIN

CNBC – El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/el-salvador-proposes-law-to-make-bitcoin-legal-tender.html

Entrepreneur – The future of cryptocurrencies? 60% of central banks already work on their own digital currencies

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/373621

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Fearing higher energy prices, voters in Washington state have twice rejected initiatives that would impose limits on fossil fuel use. Ignoring the majority of voters' wishes, Democrats who control the legislature imposed a carbon dioxide cap-and-trade plan contingent on an increase in the gas tax (which would have to be passed by a supermajority). This was part of a grand bargain to get moderate Democrats to sign onto legislation they had previously rejected. Gov. Inslee (D), in a potentially unconstitutional manner, line-item vetoed the tax. The law would limit carbon dioxide emissions and raise energy prices, but it may all be undone by the courts.

Congressional Democrats are moving dangerously close to creating a new state. How likely is this to happen, and is it justified? Stopping Socialism’s Justin Haskins and Donald Kendal explain in this episode of “Stopping Socialism.”

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The government The Founding Fathers envisioned was a force for good. Its limited role was to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If alive today, they would balk at what our government has become. Rampant government intervention seen today skews markets and limits the freedom of the individual.

H. Sterling Burnett joins the Great Talks With podcast to describe how The Heartland Institute discovers, develops, and promotes free-market solutions to social and economic problems; fighting back against big government.

Find out how the free market has helped accelerate the economic development of western democracies in this podcast.

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Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, to discuss his new book, Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. They discuss how the crisis came about, how it played out, and the motivations of Khrushchev, Kennedy, and Castro. They also talk about what we have learned about the episode from newly-accessed KGB archives and the perils of a new arms race.

Get the book here: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393540819

Show Notes:

Financial Times: Victor Sebestyen – “Nuclear Folly by Serhii Plokhy — terrifying truth of Cuban missile crisis”

The New Republic: Andre Pagliarini – “The Book That Stopped an Outbreak of Nuclear War”

https://newrepublic.com/article/162058/book-stopped-outbreak-nuclear-war

The Sunday Times: Max Hastings – “Nuclear Folly by Serhii Plokhy review — we were lucky to survive the Cuban missile crisis”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nuclear-folly-by-serhii-plokhy-review-wnr9v8g7k

Wall Street Journal: James Rosen – “‘Nuclear Folly’ Review: The Big Red Gamble”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nuclear-folly-review-the-big-red-gamble-11618871259

Washington Post: Max Boot – “From former Soviet archives, chilling new details of the Cuban missile crisis”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/from-former-soviet-archives-chilling-new-details-of-the-cuban-missile-crisis/2021/04/29/a6ce620e-8589-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Book Talk: Nuclear Folly (VIDEO)

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/book-talk-nuclear-folly

The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Nate Myers, are joined by Ed Hudgins in episode 297 of the In the Tank Podcast. Ed Hudgins, Heartland Fellow and Founder of the Human Achievement Alliance, joins the show to talk about the potential technological breakthroughs in the health care industy, the energy industry, and other aspects of our lives.  

 

HEALTH CARE TECH

 

WSJ – CRISPR’s Next Frontier: Treating Common Conditions

https://www.wsj.com/articles/crisprs-next-frontier-treating-common-conditions-11620226832

 

FreedomFest – Our Techno-Healthy Future

https://forum.freedomfest.com/our-techno-healthy-future/

 

 

FUSION ENERGY

 

Popular Mechanics – This Reactor May Have Finally Solved Nuclear Fusion’s Biggest Problem

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a36559078/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-uk-reactor-experiment/

 

New Atlas – China claims new fusion record with its “artificial sun” nuclear reactor

https://newatlas.com/energy/china-claims-fusion-record-artificial-sun-nuclear-reactor/

 

 

DOMESTIC

 

Bloomberg – Apple Loses Multiple Top Managers From Self-Driving Car Division

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-02/apple-loses-several-top-managers-from-self-driving-car-division

 

Market Watch – It’s time for Elon Musk to start telling the truth about autonomous driving

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-time-for-elon-musk-to-start-telling-the-truth-about-autonomous-driving-11621958761

 

Independent – Elon Musk Says Mars-Bound Starship Will Launch From ‘Ocean Spaceport’ Next Year

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/elon-musk-starship-sn16-spaceport-b1856911.html

 

 

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