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The Counsel

Note from Elie: What Do We Do With Congressional Scoundrels?

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6848 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

This week on Prop Ghi Markets, we speak with Jigger Shaw, director of the loan program's office at the Department of Energy.

0:07.5

We discuss how much power will need in the future why nuclear energy is making a comeback and his personal philosophy on allocating government loans.

0:15.0

If you're innovative and you meet the standards that we've set, I want to give all of them loans, right? Because whether it's

0:22.6

carbon sequestration or whether it's like, you know, solar and wind or whether it's nuclear,

0:27.4

to me, steel in the ground is red, white, and blue. You can find that conversation of many others

0:31.9

exclusively on the Proptee Markets podcast feed.

0:37.4

Hey, everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday.

0:41.4

Well, another interesting, unpredictable week in the news.

0:44.7

I guess it wasn't unpredictable because when Donald Trump took the stand in his civil case,

0:49.2

it went almost exactly as one might have predicted, which is to say it was chaos. I want to talk about

0:56.1

something else, though, this week. A public official, an elected official, said something that

1:01.5

actually really made me think. It happens sometimes. Look, it's easy to ridicule and criticize

1:07.2

our public officials. I do that often. I'll do that here. But sometimes you do

1:11.1

hear something. I hear something that makes me reassess. And that's what I want to talk about

1:15.4

in this week's podcast. As always, thanks for listening. I really appreciate it. And I really do

1:20.4

enjoy hearing from you. So send me any thoughts, questions, or comments to letters atcafe.com.

1:45.1

Sometimes the head and the heart want different things.

1:51.1

And the Honorable Representative George Santos and Senator Robert Menendez are making it awfully tough to stick to reasoned principle.

1:54.6

Now, my initial gut reaction to the indictments of both the prevaricating Republican

1:58.8

New York representative and the rapacious Democratic New Jersey

2:02.8

Senator was simple, throw them both out. Not the boldest of takes, I concede. The sentiment was

2:09.6

nearly universal. Now, George Santos, infamous for lying about trivial matters like his high school

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