America just crossed forty trillion dollars of national debt. Jeffrey Tucker says there is no mechanism left to stop it, and the country is sleepwalking toward a disaster most people cannot even see coming.

Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the Brownstone Institute and senior economics columnist at Epoch Times, joins the show for a wide-ranging conversation on the collapse of fiscal restraint, the revelations buried in the newly released 1,100-page Fauci Files, and why he is genuinely saddened by what has happened to Bitcoin's founding mission.

Here is what we cover:

• Why there is no longer any mechanism stopping Congress from spending unlimited amounts forever

• How the national debt went from 19.9 trillion to 40 trillion in just ten years and why the pace is accelerating

• Why municipal and state bonds carry real risk premiums while US Treasuries do not, and what that distortion is doing to the system

• The 192 years it took to accumulate the first trillion in debt versus the 5 months it took for the most recent trillion

• What actually held governments in check historically, from the gold standard to the fear of inflation

• Why the American dream is effectively dead for everyone outside the top 5 to 10 percent

• Tucker's theory that the poor have become political pawns rather than people the system is actually designed to help

• The COVID lockdown decisions and why Tucker believes the entire framework of essential versus non-essential work was fabricated on the fly

• What the newly released 1,100-page Fauci Files actually reveal and Tucker's own theory about Fauci's early actions

• Why China's view of Western human rights and governance shaped decisions during the pandemic in ways few people have connected

• The demoralization of legacy media following the Fauci revelations and why the Pulitzer-winning coverage now looks fraudulent

• Why 106 million working-age Americans are completely outside the labor market and what that means for the country's future

• Why privacy coins are quietly being delisted everywhere and what that says about where financial surveillance is headed

• Tucker's honest and complicated feelings about what has happened to Bitcoin and where he still sees hope

This is one of the most unfiltered conversations on the state of America you will hear this year.

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