All right, welcome back. So last episode, we talked about the current financial crisis that we're in, the things that the Fed can do, the thing that the Fed should do, and what we can do with respect to making sure that we can take control of our own economic futures.

Now, in this episode, we're going to switch up a little bit. We're going to talk about whether or not the United States can turn what appears to be economic

catastrophe into enormous economic opportunity for the country and really for the world.

All of that and more coming up on this episode.

Welcome to this episode of Making the Argument.

We appreciate you joining us.

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enjoy. All right. So with you, as always, I am your host, Nick Fratis, member of the Virginia

House of Delegates, but other than that, a reasonably good guy. My beautiful bride, Tina, queen of the bees,

is not here today. But we do have our resident historian and political prognosticator, Christian,

as well as our producer of producers, Nicholas Hamilton, the good Hamilton, the one that doesn't like

central banking. Good afternoon, Nick. All right. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to kind of lay out the groundwork for where the current, like global economic

situation is, right?

That's obviously a pretty big task where we're going to do the best we can with some of the

major players.

And we're going to talk about potential opportunities that the United States has.

So stick with us as we kind of run you through the, like, laying down

the groundwork for the current situation. And we're going to get to the very specific ways that

the United States could actually take advantage of this. And I don't mean take advantage in a

pejorative way. I just mean there's an opportunity where while the same time the United

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