E332. Do Tariffs Destroy Economic Freedom? - Nick Gillespie

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Editor at Large of Reason magazine, Nick Gillespie returns to the podcast discuss the current state of libertarianism, why he feels it’s moving into a revival, Trump’s tariff tantrums, what’s wrong with the deportations, the problem with Europe, pondering how California lost Hollywood and Silicon Valley and what it will take to recover, and whether or not bitcoin can fix money. He and Bridget cover the reality of the middle class, the truth about factory jobs, why he’s a techno optimist, the ...

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0:00.0	I'm with Nick Gillespie, everybody. Welcome back to Walkins, welcome.
0:03.3	Oh, it's been too long. It has been too long. Congratulations on getting married.
0:07.8	Thank you. Yeah, I got married last September, and I'm very happy.
0:11.8	Yeah? And you guys were, how long were you together before you got married?
0:16.5	Probably about seven years, something like that.
0:19.8	Okay, wow. So it had been a while and, you know,
0:21.9	we were on and off and on and off and whatnot. Yeah. Now we're married. And were you guys kind of
0:28.8	not anti-marriage? Was that? No. No. It was never that. Now, you know, I've been married once
0:33.8	before and I have two adult kids.
0:37.9	Sarah,
0:38.6	Suska, my wife is the product of a marriage.
0:41.3	Her parents were married.
0:42.3	So no,
0:42.9	it wasn't anti-marriage.
0:44.2	Oh,
0:44.5	okay.
0:45.1	Okay.
0:45.7	I wasn't sure if I was like,
0:46.8	we're into the poly life
0:48.0	because we're libertarians.
0:49.5	Yeah,
0:49.8	no.
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