All right, thank you very much, Gary. We're going to switch up a little bit, Professor

Terley's a little bit delayed. So we're going to switch out for my good friend, Jeff

Dice, who was Dr. Paul's Chief of Staff on Capitol Hill, his president of the Mises Institute,

and he's going to give a very important talk, especially following Gary, which is a talk

about money and about the weaponization and digitalization. So, without any further

do, Jeff Dice.

Thank you, Daniel. For those of you who've managed to fly here yesterday, congratulations

because it is increasingly a crapshoot to do so, especially if you happen to have a connection

and double, especially if you happen to be flying internationally. I don't know if you've

been following this, but the number of significant delays which are defined as more than three

hours has gone up dramatically, and the number of what the mainstream media calls near misses,

which can be anything from a runway incident to an actual mid-air collision, have also increased

dramatically just in 2023. So it's interesting when you go to the airport and you get the full

gulag experience, as Mr. Haven alluded to, you know, you get the TSA, prison lines, you get

these power-tripping flight attendants yelling at you in the mask, you have a lot of missing

pilot crews causing some of these delays, and sometimes I wonder if all this isn't a

purposeful attempt to demoralize us at the airport and make us accustomed this kind of

rote compliance as you walk through, so we don't complain about this obvious decline in one of

the major industries in this country. There's a lot of things in decline that we're not supposed to

notice or complain about, but you know, hey, the airlines only receive $54 billion in taxpayer

stimulus in three tranches during COVID. So for 18 months, they were paid. They made payroll. They

were paid not to fly airplanes around. They're supposed to fly airplanes from point A to point B,

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