6-16-26 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Kenneth Rapoza: China's Rise as No. 2 Economic Power Has Created Worldwide Industrial Subsidies Trend

2. Kerry Lutz: Docusign Diplomacy - Iranian Peace is Just a ZOOM Call Away

3. Todd Sheets: Is the Stagflation Sky Falling?

4. Michele Steeb: California's Real Homelessness Crisis - Failed Governance

5. Fmr. Congressman Louie Gohmert: 24 Hours on Capitol Hill to Save America

6. Josh Hammer: For the Left, Power Always Trumps Principle

7. James Hirsen: Elon Musk Becoming a Trillionaire is Something to Celebrate

8. John Lott: The Shocking Truth About Australian Crime Rates

China's Rise as No. 2 Economic Power Has Created Worldwide Industrial Subsidies Trend

By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for Coalition for a Prosperous America

China's meteoric rise as the No. 2 economic power behind the U.S. has forced other industrial powers to increase subsidies in the form of direct payment grants and tax incentives in order to maintain market share. The OECD report does say that China is the world leader in subsidies. Between 2005 and 2024, the focus years for the study, China companies received an average of three to eight times more government support than most OECD countries. They said 22 percent of global market share gains by companies that expanded over that time frame can be linked to government support – everything from free land to major tax write-offs. But for China, 60 percent of the companies that expanded all saw an increase in government subsidies. China's rise as an industrial powerhouse has not only been aided by Western capital; it's been helped even more by Beijing and provincial government funding and tax incentives. [more...]

Docusign Diplomacy - Iranian Peace is Just a ZOOM Call Away

By Kerry Lutz, Founder of the Financial Survival Network, Economist

The digital revolution has finally hit the world of high-stakes international diplomacy. Forget the historic, grand ballrooms of Geneva or Vienna. Forget the flashing bulbs of hundreds of press cameras, the heavy velvet curtains, and the theatrical spectacle of bitter adversaries awkwardly shaking hands over a mahogany table. As the United States and Iran edge toward a momentous halt to their high-tech conflict, history will record this not by the stroke of a fountain pen on parchment, but by an encrypted digital token. [more...]

Is the Stagflation Sky Falling?

By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an article titled, "Inflation is picking investors pockets." Then, when the May inflation report came in "hot" at 4.2% the markets took a hit, falling by 1.5%- 2.0%. Not coincidentally, bond yields have also risen over the past few months. All of which has led some to predict that we are returning to the kind of stagflation (stagnant growth combined with rapidly rising prices) that turned the 1970s into the worst decade for real (inflation adjusted) stock market returns in the twentieth century. So, are the dire predictions correct? Or are they just a modern version of Chicken Little clucking, "The stagflation sky is falling!" [more...]

California's Real Homelessness Crisis - Failed Governance

By Michele Steeb, Homelessness Expert

After California lawmakers blocked legislation requiring a comprehensive audit of the state's multibillion-dollar Homekey program, CalMatters undertook the very investigation state leaders refused to demand. The findings sharply undercut Governor Gavin Newsom's repeated claims that his pandemic-era Homekey program has been a "phenomenal success." The two-year investigation, built on roughly 250 projects and more than 100 public-records requests, exposed a familiar pattern in Newsom's governance style: massive spending, glowing political rhetoric, weak oversight, and deeply underwhelming results. In a state already plagued by oversight failures involving Medicaid, hospice care, in-home supportive services, and homelessness spending itself, the revelations were troubling, though hardly surprising. [more...]

24 Hours on Capitol Hill to Save America

By Louie Gohmert, Fmr. Texas Congressman

Only judicial accountability can end the judicial coup.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center has developed the Judicial Accountability Project to break the stalemate and restore the framework of a constitutional government. The idea began during a conversation with former Rep. Louie Gohmert, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, at the Freedom Center's event in Las Vegas last year. It lit a spark that led to bigger things happening. We began building profiles of judges and collecting information about judicial abuses; and even more importantly, we were building a roadmap of constitutional options for accountability. Our list included a judge who had lied about working for Jeffrey Epstein and signed off on the Mar-a-Lago raid; a Pakistani judge who had apologized to two attempted Trump assassins; along with more famous figures like Judge Boasberg, who had signed off on the covert surveillance of members of Congress, as well as judges guilty of conflicts of interest, abuse of AI to fake precedents, partisan misconduct from the bench and other violations of judicial codes. [more...]

For the Left, Power Always Trumps Principle

By Josh Hammer, Conservative Political Commentator

Graham Platner’s Senate candidacy exposes the lie that Democrats believe in anything other than their own power.

With the Democratic Party nomination of Graham Platner to challenge incumbent Susan Collins for her Maine Senate seat, the American Left has once again proven that it stands for absolutely nothing other than its own maniacal pursuit of power. Platner is one of the most scandal-ridden candidates for high political office in modern American history. And those scandals have a rather perfect way of undermining Democrats' purported pro-feminist and anti-Nazi bona fides, exposing their brazen hypocrisy and galling lack of intellectual integrity for all with ears to hear and eyes to see. [more...]

Elon Musk Becoming a Trillionaire is Something to Celebrate

By James Hirsen, NY Times Bestselling Author, International Business Attorney, News Analyst & Cultural Commentator

In a capitalist system, visionaries, entrepreneurs, inventors, artists, etc., have free rein to flourish. Sometimes they are financially rewarded for their skills, talents, and efforts. It's a beautiful thing, because when they are rewarded for their contributions, a free society reaps the benefits as well. The Musk model is a prime example. SpaceX isn't just another rocket company; it has fundamentally rewritten the economics of space travel. And Starlink, a subsidiary of SpaceX, has brought high-speed Internet to remote corners of the globe, from war-torn locales and disaster zones to third-world rural villages, which has allowed millions who were previously cut off to actually connect. [more...]

The Shocking Truth About Australian Crime Rates

By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime

Australia faces a serious crime problem. Many Australians believe their crime rate is low compared with countries like the United States, yet sadly that myth stems from misunderstanding statistics about how crime is measured. Media coverage reinforces the myth, and the real questions are why that misunderstanding persists and what can be done about it. [more...]