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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Loan Me Your Votes

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast takes up the Biden administration's strange decision to use COVID-19 as an excuse to continue a "student loan moratorium"—and we ask what good this will serve and what the political fallout might be. Then we discuss the upcoming elections as a possible binary choice between bad Democratic policy and crazy Republican politicians. Give a listen.

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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday April 6, 2022.

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I'm John Puthworts, the editor of commentary magazine excited to see all of you who will be

0:35.7

meeting us later today for the live commentary podcast in Palm Beach, Florida, where we are

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currently ensconced in the same hotel in different rooms doing this podcast for you right now,

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us being executive editor Abe Greenwald Hyab. Hi John, senior writer Christine Rosen,

0:56.0

Hyakristeen, and associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah. Hi John.

1:01.4

Podcasted a sponsored by our friend David Bonson at the Bonson Group with $3.5 billion

1:06.2

under management. David's book, there's no free lunch, 250 economic truths is a kind of daily

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primer on free market economics and the arguments made for free market economics and the liberty,

1:22.5

the connection between ordered liberty and economic freedom made by philosophers historians,

1:28.5

great thinkers, over time with David's explanations alongside those quotes of the

1:35.8

workings of the market. It is a must read particularly now given all of the economic

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confusion that faces us in terms of rising inflation and supply chain disruptions and everything

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that might cause people to wonder whether the system works and David's point is that it's not a

1:57.1

system, it is a it is a design for living and it is a moral frame for living your best life that's

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there's no free lunch, 250 economic truths by David Bonson, get it in Amazon, get it in Barnes,

2:09.1

Noble, get it in wherever you get your books, you will profit from it and so will your loved ones.

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Speaking of economics, we are fascinated to see that the Biden administration

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has decided that it is going to extend its moratorium on student loan payments

2:35.6

through the end of August, which it had announced the suspension of such loan payments

2:44.4

for student loans as a result of COVID back in the beginning of 2021. I don't actually know whether

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