Ep. 1152: Jeffrey Tucker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Jeffrey Tucker, the founder and president of Brownstone Institute, a nonprofit organization focusing on public health, economics, and the philosophical foundations of freedom, with a particular focus on post-pandemic rebuilding. He has served as a columnist at Forbes, founder of the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy, Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Austrian Economics Center, Research Affiliate for the RMIT University Blockchain Innovation Hub, founder and Chief Liberty Officer of Liberty.me, an adviser to blockchain application companies, and author of many thousands of articles and books. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.
The topic is the Covid era.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- The effects of Covid-19 worldwide
- Lock down effects
- How life was changed by the pandemic
- Challenges with us still
- Vaccine pros and cons
- Financial corruption
- Understanding the principle of money
Jump in!
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | I guess today is Jeffrey Tucker. |
| 0:35.4 | He's an American libertarian writer, publisher, entrepreneur. |
| 0:39.7 | He is an advocate of anarcho-capitalism and Bitcoin. He has worked for Ron Paul, the Mises Institute, |
| 0:46.5 | and Lou Rockwell. It's been a few years since Jeffrey and I spoke, and I asked him on today |
| 0:51.8 | to specifically talk COVID in the last handful of years. |
| 0:57.8 | I've been following Jeffrey on Twitter, and I've noticed that he has taken a deep dive into |
| 1:03.1 | the subject. This is one of those conversations that you might think you know where it's going to go, |
| 1:09.6 | but you don't. It's an important conversation. It's one that |
| 1:13.7 | must be had. And for thinking people, for people that want to do the right thing, for people that want to |
| 1:19.6 | find the honest answers, stay tuned. This is where I go with Jeffrey Tucker. I hope you enjoyed this |
| 1:26.6 | conversation. |
| 1:46.2 | I'm going to keep you at this topic that we've all had to live with for the last couple of years because I don't know exactly why, but from my following you on Twitter, you have kept your finger on the pulse of all things COVID more than a lot of people. And I have a feeling you're going to be |
| 1:51.2 | able to educate some today. I was in Asia for 2020 and 2021. So I got to witness things here. |
| 1:57.7 | Let me just throw out a really big picture point to you and see how you handle it. If I think |
| 2:03.1 | about the last handful of years, specifically how America led and handled the issue of COVID, |
| 2:10.1 | we're going to get into the nitty gritty, and I'm going to pick your mind in all kinds of topics. |
| 2:13.0 | But big picture, I keep coming back to the word evil. That's the only thing I can leave myself with |
| 2:19.3 | as a Gen X guy witnessing what just happened in the last handful of years. Is it evil |
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