All right. I'm with Scott Lenticum, everybody. Welcome to Walkins. Welcome. Thank you for being here.

Thanks for having me. It's about time. Yeah, it is about time. You have a very impressive resume, and you do a lot of different things. What are you doing currently right now? Because it seems like you are a very impressive individual.

Well, thanks. It's quite the high bar. I'm going

to disappoint everybody now that I start actually giving the bio. I'm a vice president of general

economics and trade at the Libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. I write a couple columns,

one for the dispatch called capitalism with an O, because you see, I'm to play on words and I'm very witty, which is a longer form piece on economic policy that I've been doing for about six years.

More recently, I started writing a column for Bloomberg, which is shorter, punchier, but also

econ-focused stuff. In my little bit of spare time, I will go over to Duke University

and teach at the law school occasional classes classes on international trade law, and some stuff

for their political science department as well.

See, that did not disappoint, actually.

Oh, okay.

I became pretty familiar with you just from Twitter, and you seem like somebody who is the rare breed of person

that appears on podcasts on both sides of the aisles and seems to talk to kind of everyone still,

not many left. And where do you kind of define yourself on the spectrum of politics in this

moment? Yeah, I mean, I, one of the great things, I'm a

libertarian, and one of the great things about being a libertarian is that I really haven't changed

over the last two or three decades. I started as an intern at Cato back in the 1990s,

believe it or not. And back then, I wanted economic

liberty. So, you know, low taxes, limited regulation, free trade, relatively open immigration

as well. But I also wanted personal and social liberties. I thought gay marriage was great,

you know, and drug legalization and all that kind of stuff. Not because I'm a big drug user,

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