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Well, the brilliant economist, Steve Moore, of course, you see him all over television, read his columns.

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Steve Moore, how you doing?

Well, Mark, I'm doing great.

2006 is off to a rip-roar and start.

We've seen amazing gains in the stock market.

We've seen, you know, an incredible military operation that will go down on the annals of history

is one of the most flawless operations ever.

We liberated 30 million people in Venezuela, a very humanitarian mission.

And look, I think inflation is coming down. Jobs are going up. GDP is going up. It's going to be a

blockbuster year. Yeah. You know, Venezuela is fascinating. There's no better example of the uselessness of socialism. He decides to go socialist. Everybody's starving to death. It's horrible. They're sitting on 300 billion barrels of oil there. 17. Why was he in these drug things? Why didn't he just become an oil baron? You know, we had something in our house. You mentioned our hotline. Thank you. And by the way, that's free folks. Just go to unleash prosperity.com and get that for free. But on Monday, we had an item that got a lot of attention, which we just, we just walked people through with charts. What had happened to Venezuela since they went communist back in around 2000.

And this was a country that was fairly middle-class country.

They had, as you said, they have trillion dollars of oil resources.

First of all, they've cut their oil production by two-thirds.

The one thing that they were getting money from, they couldn't even run the oil wells.

And so you had the poverty rate in in uh

in uh in uh venezuela uh is uh 75 to 80 percent what 75 to 80 percent of people in venusuel living in

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