America Trends Podcast

America Trends Podcast


Latest Episodes

EP 665 American Business and the Hangover From the Pandemic
June 19, 2023

The pandemic was an economic catastrophe the likes of which CEOs running Americas biggest companies had never seen or prepared for. There was no playbook and the shock was even greater given the fa

EP 664 Over Three Days in June 2022, the Supreme Court Changed America: What’s Next?
June 14, 2023

We have addressed the issue of the overreach of our current make-up of the US Supreme Court, but not in a way as comprehensive as the deep dive we take in this podcast. We look at the history of over

EP 663 A College Degree No Longer Required for Many Job Types
June 12, 2023

Thats right. The long held practice of degree inflation is coming to an end in America. With three state governmentsMaryland, Utah and Pennsylvaniadeclaring that experience, military service, tec

EP 662 A Safety Net Hospital: A Model for Health Care Reform in America?
June 07, 2023

Healthcare is the number one cause of bankruptcy in America. Nearly 30 million Americans have no insurance and those who do face staggering increases each year. We all interact with the healthcare

EP 661 Young Zealots on the Right Well Financed and Well Organized
June 05, 2023

While the belief is that all young people are in lockstep with liberal ideas, many flirting with socialism, the truth is that the enthusiasm of young people on the right is better financed and has som

EP 660 Should Public Employee Unions Be Outlawed?
May 31, 2023

Our guest has been warning America for decades that our government has become unaccountable tied up in overlapping jurisdictions and strangled by reams of rule books and regulation. The ability to ma

EP 659 Universal Basic Income Being Road Tested Across America
May 28, 2023

Imagine getting a check for $1,000 from this point on, on the first day of every month, deposited directly into your bank account. What would that do to give you peace of mind that theres an inc

EP 658 How Healthy Are State and Local Government Finances?
May 24, 2023

Faced with mounting Medicaid costs, powerful public employee unions and often underfunded pension and medical obligations, state and local governments can present fiscal dilemmas that, at times and

EP 656 Avoiding Complicity in Wrongdoing
May 17, 2023

Enron. Theranos. Purdue Pharma. Harvey Weinstein. The Nazis. Awful behavior abounds. The question is what do we do when we see it? Do we become a whistleblower or an enabler? Max Bazerman, a Pro

EP 655 Could America Have Won the Vietnam War?
May 15, 2023

America lost the Vietnam War. End of sentence. The reasons most scholars give are many. Chief among them is the notion that the North Vietnamese and Vietnam Congress wanted to win more than we did and