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Bill Walton

The Bill Walton Show: How American Medical Insurance has Failed to Keep Pace with Modern Medicine with John Steele Gordon

Did you know there was no health insurance until 1930 and that 90 percent of today’s medical care did not even exist in 1950? Yet, health insurance has not evolved to match the innovation or the demand. On this week’s edition of “The Bill Walton Show,” economic author John Steele Gordon and I discuss how our antiquated health insurance system has utterly failed to keep pace with modern medicine, how our healthcare system became such a tangled, costly mess and where we can find simple, free market solutions. Read More ›

A Lively Discussion on Trade and Protectionism

This will go down in history as the episode of “The Bill Walton Show” where economist John Tamny referred to views I presented as utter nonsense and I called his naïve. No, we haven’t descended into a late-night cable TV news catfight. Anyone who has watched this program for any time knows I could not have more respect for Tamny, a senior fellow in economics at Reason Foundation,  and his unique insights into economics, trade, and policy—and that he’s one of my favorite people. But the language we both chose in what was an entirely pleasant conversation perhaps reflects the sharp differences that are emerging even on the pro-market side about the trade practices of President Donald Trump. I had Read More ›

At Forbes, Sr. Fellow George Gilder Discusses Why “Gold Is The Money Of The Future”

Gilder argues that fluctuating currency values--as opposed to the gold standard--are a "relic, totally unfit for the modern world, rendered indefensible by cutting edge information theory, a major source of political and economic corruption, and one of our most significant barriers to progress." Read More ›
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Bill Walton speaking at Hillsdale College

Watch: The Problem of Crony Capitalism

Speaking at a session of the Hillsdale College lecture series Money: History and Controversies, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow dissected "The Problem of Crony Capitalism Today," discussing how the rise of the regulatory state has brought about an increasingly cozy relationship between Washington and big business. Read More ›

George Gilder: Bitcoin & Gold

George Gilder explains what Bitcoin is, and how he became interested in the currency after studying gold. Now he’s working a book about bitcoin and how this new technology will change everything we know about money. Transcript We’re back at Freedom Fest and with me now is George Gilder. He’s the chairman of the George Gilder fund management he’s the author of wealth and poverty and his most recent knowledge and power George good to good to have you on our show great to be here now George I know you recently wrote an article on Forbes where you were saying how entrepreneurship is is key to having new innovations in America let’s talk a bout how Bitcoin fits into Read More ›