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- Low interest rates should not be the reason for charging clients for their deposits. That would be absurd - says John A. Allison IV, former BB&T CEO. In the interview Allison also:- reviews Trump and Biden presidency- criticize the monetary and fiscal policy that lead to the devaluation of dollar- talks about the ineffectiveness of lockdown policiesVideo version

Lekarz Paweł Basiukiewicz w pandemii szefował oddziałowi covidowemu szpitala w  Grodzisku Mazowieckim. Jako jeden z niewielu lekarzy przeciwstawiał się lockdownom i metodom walki z pandemią. W rozmowie podsumowujemy jego refleksje w tych dziedzinach i rozmawiamy o ogólnym stanie ochrony zdrowia w Polsce oraz o koniecznych reformach.Rozmowa w wersji video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq_NOex8W6Q&t=1663s

The response to the pandemic will be more protectionism. Government wan tto bring "supply chains" back into the country. But this term is misleading because it suggests that goods, such as a pen, is at the end of a long chain of production that is stretched around the world, so if we want to produce more pens at home, we should just pull that chain in our direction - listen to the full talk with prof. Don Boudreaux from George Mason University and a host of cafehayek.com to know why it is a wrong idea.

-> Let's go back in time, thinking about the ambivalent attitude that many artists have toward digitization, to the moment when the digitization of music occurs in Nashville. The ability to pirate, to download things from the web without paying for them, arose. Since then, digitization and the Internet began to be seen as a threat by artists.  But it didn't take long for the Internet to turn out to have its good sides as well. -> The Internet, yes, has made it possible for people to steal cultural goods, but it has also made it much cheaper to produce them. What followed can safely be called an explosion of creative potential in terms of the number of new works. -> We listen to a lot of old music, which means that thanks to streaming, artists of old who are still listened to but no longer release albums can still make money. Yes, it may often not be large amounts of money, but in the pre-Internet era they would have received nothing, because you don't have to pay royalties on subsequent plays of a store-bought CD. -> On the other hand, streaming services are powerful. They have great power to decide what is successful and how much they will pay the record labels. There's a lot to complain about. It's a very complicated system. But there are a lot of artists who get something they would never get otherwise."

If you are French and a philosopher chances are you do not like markets. Guy Sorman is both but... he is a classical liberal popularizing market ideas since ever. Recently he's published a new book "My dicionary of bullshit". In this episode he's explaining what he means by "bullshit" and why capitalism will survive.  

- The economy grows when political and economic power are separated. The closer they are to each other, the worse for growth, argues Randall G. Holcombe, an economist from Florida State University. You will also find out:- how market power differs from economic power?- how has the concept of power been evolving since the time of foragers?- how to eliminate the "rent-seeking"?You can watch the podcast as a video with Polish subtitles

Back in the 70' he co-founded Quantum Fund with George Soros. Now it's a long time past. Jim Rogers has been an investor on its own for years. He's living in Singapure and believes Asian Century has come. Sadly he has got no good news for young people. Unless they learn how to profit from disasters, they'll be in troubles.

If you are into witch trials, wife sales or piracy, well, this podcast if for you. Peter Leeson, economist from George Mason Unviersity, is studying strange customs trying to find the reason behind them. Rational reason. Homo economicus is not dead - he says - it's a useful model!

Pope Francis ciritical opinions on free markets are misguided. Don't be fooled, he is an authority, but in religion, specifically in Catholic religion, not in economics. Says Alejandro A. Chaufen, managing director of Acton Institute, economist and an author of "Faith and Liberty"Video with subs in Polish

People talking of how global warming will kill us all are wrong. It will not kill us if we adjust. Also there are more important problems than climate that we can solve cheaper, easier and faster. A talk with  Bjørn Lomborg, a Danish author and President of the think tank, Copenhagen Consensus Center. Video version with subtitles in Polish