Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez makes her presence known, big democratic cities engage in big crony capitalism,

and the Mueller investigation heats up again. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Well, brand new faces and brand new places we get to watch as the incoming Congress comes in and, you know, participates in some

shenanigans. We will talk about all of that, plus the Mueller investigation, and a non-shocking

report on a global warming research report that it turns out was being skewed in a particular

direction. I will let you guess that direction. But first, let's talk about your finances.

So, Dems have retaken the house.

Obviously, that is not going to be great for the economy. They're going to be involved in attempting new regulations. They're going to be shutting down the attempts to make the tax cuts permanent. They're going to be doing an awful lot of things that aren't going to be great for the business climate in the country right now. and that means that you might want to think a little bit more about diversifying your funds.

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endless round of investigations into everything Trump related, the vast majority of which will not only

be irrelevant but counterproductive. I think that the Democrats are going to hold up the business

of government for ridiculous proposals like massive carbon taxes, for example. I think Democrats are going to be just as bad at

governance as they ever were back when they were in control of the House from 2006 to 2010.

And Nancy Pelosi will be Speaker of the House again.

But there is going to be some fun Democratic infighting, or at least there are indicators that

there may be some fun Democratic infighting.

That was the early indication anyway.

So Alexander Ocasia

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