530 episodes
- Ant and James reflect on 9/11, both the day and its legacy.
0:00 Introduction and Episode Preview
0:24 Citizens United, Super PACs, and Money in Politics
6:48 Corporate Donations, Trump, and Political Influence
10:50 AI Is Putting an Entire Industry Out of Business
13:56 AI, College Cheating, and the Future of Education
17:28 Foolishness of the Week: Trump Threatens to Halt Trade
20:48 Why Trade Deficits Aren’t What Politicians Think
22:24 25 Years Later: Remembering 9/11
25:25 Where We Were When the Attacks Happened
29:03 How 9/11 Changed America Overnight
31:39 Fear, Terrorism, and the Wars That Followed 9/11
34:22 How 9/11 Changed the Nature of War
35:17 The War on Terror and America’s “Wars on Nouns”
42:28 TSA, Security Theater, and the Post-9/11 Surveillance State
44:30 The Militarization of American Law Enforcement
46:06 Did Americans Trade Freedom for Security?
48:31 Fear, Crime, and the Lasting Legacy of 9/11
50:32 Closing Thoughts: Have Some Charity in Your Heart - What's the deal with bonds and interest rates? Find out on Words & Numbers, where we will use both words and numbers to get to the bottom of things.
0:00 Introduction and Episode Preview
0:42 Free Speech and the First Amendment
7:45 Rutgers Dean Caught Recording Students
09:55 Renaming the Great Lakes “Lake America”
11:41 Foolishness of the Week: George Santos Gets Banned From Kalshi
14:27 Is the Government Running Out of Places to Borrow?
20:24 Why Treasury Investors Are Demanding Higher Returns
22:10 The Federal Debt and the Interest Rate Spiral
24:06 Can the Government Tax Its Way Out of the Deficit?
26:24 Will the Government Eventually Monetize the Debt?
27:43 The Federal Reserve vs. the Treasury
33:05 Scott Bessent’s Plan to Push Interest Rates Down
36:42 Is the Treasury Gambling on Short-Term Debt?
41:37 Is the Treasury Trying to Conduct Monetary Policy?
44:38 Are We Seeing the Beginning of a U.S. Debt Crisis?
49:03 Can Social Security Force Congress to Confront the Debt?
51:35 Closing Thoughts: Find an Excuse to Be Nice - A priest shows up. Antony doesn’t confess, James doesn’t convert, but they all talk about human dignity.
Checkout Fr. James Martin, SJ 's book, 'Work in Progress.'
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062694480
0:00 Introduction and Overview
0:29 The Ultimate Quiet Quitting Story
4:32 Scott Bessent’s $950 Billion Bond Buyback Plan
8:05 Is the Treasury Conducting Its Own Monetary Policy?
12:14 Foolishness of the Week: American Airlines Does It Again
16:57 Father James Martin on Pope Leo, AI, and Human Dignity
20:50 What Happens When AI Meets Humanlike Robots?
22:48 AI, Loneliness, and Replacing Human Relationships
24:57 Can Free Markets Serve the Common Good?
29:22 Property Rights, Poverty, and the Role of the Church
34:53 Who Gets to Define the “Common Good”?
36:17 Subsidiarity, Data Centers, and Local Decision-Making
41:18 Human Rights vs. Human Flourishing
43:38 Wealth, Profit, and the Morality of Capitalism
48:00 What Did Jesus Mean by “The Poor Will Always Be With You”?
51:22 Individual Charity vs. Community Responsibility
55:15 Social Media, Human Dignity, and the Loss of Community
1:00:09 Father James Martin’s Work in Progress - When government statistics are under question, it gets pretty hard to know what the hell is actually going on.
00:00 Introduction and Episode Preview
00:32 Civil Disobedience, Crime, and Flock Cameras
06:17 License Plate Tracking and the Surveillance State
10:52 Rising Treasury Yields and Federal Borrowing
12:20 Surge Pricing, Markets, and Government Intervention
15:48 Monopolies, Standard Oil, and De Beers
20:01 Foolishness of the Week: Trump Tariffs on Brass Instruments
24:02 The Death of Reliable Government Data
27:00 Why Politicizing Economic Data Matters
30:21 Immigration Data, Jobs, and the Economy
33:01 Immigration and Social Security
36:39 Migrant Workers, Business Planning, and Regulation
41:39 Why Reliable Data Keeps Prices Lower
44:06 Final Thoughts on Kindness and Grace - Clark Neily joins us once again, this time to discuss the thorny matter of constitutional interpretation.
00:00 Introduction and Overview
00:26 TSA Phone Searches and the Right to Privacy
06:26 The University of Michigan Abandons Traditional Grades
10:31 Foolishness of the Week: Transgender Athletes and the WNBA
18:48 Clark Neily on How to Read the Constitution
21:54 Originalism vs. Textualism
27:02 Applying the Constitution to Modern Technology
30:31 Wiretapping, Smartphones, and the Fourth Amendment
33:06 Constitutional Rights at the Border
36:54 What the Constitution Really Means by a “Jury”
40:22 Original Meaning and the Second Amendment
50:01 The Right to Bear Arms and Resisting Government
57:36 Equal Protection and the Fourteenth Amendment
01:09:49 How Far Does the Second Amendment Go?
01:13:35 What Does It Mean to “Infringe” a Right?
01:25:14 The Forgotten Privileges or Immunities Clause
01:27:07 Closing Thoughts
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Words & Numbers is one of the highest-rated economics podcasts in the world. Each episode, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan dig into economics, political science, and current events to explain what’s actually happening and why it matters.
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