• Episode 214: Freedom and Virtue in Bank Interest Rates
    Feb 20 2025
    This is a remedial course in how banking works, the tension between deposit rates and borrowing rates, and the way in which freedom and virtue are cultivated by true relationship banking. An episode you won’t want to miss!
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    16 mins
  • Episode 213: Zooming Out to Zoom in on Real Work
    Feb 18 2025

    https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/jpmorgan-ceo-dimon-derides-in-office-work-pushback-demands-efficiency-2025-02-13/

    https://www.barrons.com/articles/jamie-dimon-leaked-audio-jpmorgan-return-to-office-7064ee64

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    21 mins
  • Episode 212: CFPB and Other BS
    Feb 13 2025

    LFG (Looking for gamers): CFPB wants to hear about your video game loot

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    20 mins
  • Episode 211: Bipartisan Credit Card Lunacy
    Feb 6 2025
    It is amazing how, these days, the word “bipartisan” is always attached to Republicans doing something leftist in economic policy, and never Democrats doing something pro-market. And the bipartisanship of the Hawley-Sanders bill to cap credit card interest rates is a wonderful reason to not be yearning for bipartisanship. In this episode of Capital Record, David provides principle-based reasons for opposing this federal overreach, and it is a set of principles that have held up very well over time. A must listen!
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    16 mins
  • Episode 210: Tariff Deficit Disorder
    Feb 4 2025
    How can we have an honest conversation about tariffs as public policy, let alone one rooted in first principles, if the conversation changes every five minutes? David uses this podcast to focus the attention where it belongs, to separate categories, and to encourage thoughtful and siloed analysis about the American worker, about tax revenue, about trade deficits, about human rights, and about negotiating tactics -- in a coherent and sensible manner. One may just find that the right policy decision on a given matter is easier to come by with good faith, logic, and conversation than bouncing around without focus or purpose.
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    19 mins
  • Episode 209: RFK, Big Pharma, and a Free & Virtuous Society
    Jan 30 2025
    With the RFK confirmation hearings in the news, could it be that “health and human services” is not just a story about vaccines, snack foods, and the controversy around Robert Kennedy, but is actually an economic story, with a lesson for us all about the reason people use words like “big pharma” and “big business”?
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    13 mins
  • Episode 208: Authentic Shareholder Engagement
    Jan 28 2025

    "When Engagement Works"

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    19 mins
  • Episode 207: The Pharisee’s Game: A Condemnation
    Jan 23 2025

    'Gary Stevenson claims to have been the best trader in the world. His old colleagues disagree'

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    19 mins