Tom Mullen Talks Freedom

Summary: The media tell us the Trump administration has expended tremendous effort trying to “mediate” between the Ukrainian and Russia governments to bring about an end to the Ukraine War. Time magazine reports that Putin missed a chance to swing the U.S. to his side when relations cooled between Trump and Zelensky. D

Summary: The American fairy tale says the so called “free press” hold the government accountable and informs the public so they can make informed political decisions. In reality, not only does the news media misinform the public, the public would make better political decisions if no news media existed at all. Tom make

Summary: Libertarians and other free market advocates tend to dismiss Trump’s tariff policy out of hand as simply economically ignorant mercantilism. But the policy advisors around Trump are not ignorant of free trade arguments but rather are highly credentialed economists whose true arguments must be first understood

Summary: Many people are debating the effects of Trump’s tariffs on traditional free trade vs. protectionism grounds. But Peter Schiff says no one is talking about what artificially reducing trade deficits with tariffs may do to the U.S. dollar and U.S. bonds. Guest Bio: Peter Schiff is the Senior Economist and Chief M

Summary: President Trump has designated April 2, 2025 “Liberation Day,” as he claims the reciprocal tariffs he imposes on American importers will make the rest of the country freer. But tariffs don’t make a country freer or richer and aren’t beneficial even as a response to like treatment from trading partners. As have

Summary: Pundits constantly refer to a supposedly binary “political spectrum” with extreme conservatism on one end and extreme liberalism on the other. Often libertarians are talked about as if they fall somewhere between these two extremes. But this is a false paradigm. Conservatives, libertarians, and the people we n