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Is income inequality really worse than ever, or are influential statistics overstating the problem? In this episode of Independent Conversations, Graham H. Walker sits down with economist Phillip W. Magness to examine the research behind America’s inequality debate, including Thomas Piketty’s famous “U-curve,” disputed calculations of how much the wealthy pay in taxes and the case for California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax. Together, they ask a basic but consequential question: before the government tries to fix an inequality crisis, how certain should we be that the data actually shows one?
David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker examine what is going on with voter fraud, lawsuits and recounts; what Biden-Harris policies and cabinet might...
With California electricity demand growing exponentially, why is the state holding so tenaciously to its ban on new nuclear power plants? Why has California...
David Theroux, Williamson Evers, and Graham Walker discuss if it's easy to agree that Vladimir Putin’s war tactics are monstrous and malignant. But what...
