As we approached the election, the financial press was assuring us that everybody's happy,

everybody's doing well, our incomes are up, the jobs are plentiful, and then there was an intuition

on the part of the public that none of this is true.

I mean, there was like, well, I'm not so sure about this.

A lot of what we're faced right now is kind of this terrible thicket of compliance, that if we can

revisit that thing and really do something dramatic and big, and the Trump administration is

talking about, we could see that all the problems that they're facing just pushed aside and overwhelmed

by an exposure of wealth creation

and entrepreneurship and innovation and optimism and joy that comes with that old-fashioned

idea of freedom.

We're launching a special American Thought Leaders series during this post-election transition period

where I will be interviewing

former and possible future Trump administration officials, as well as subject matter experts,

to understand what the incoming American administration's policies in 2025 may look like,

for America, Canada, and the world. To start off, I'm sitting down today with economist Jeffrey Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, and a senior economics columnist

at the Epoch Times, to understand the tough economic reality the incoming Trump administration

faces and what might be done about it.

Jeffrey Tucker, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders.

Good to be here.

Thank you.

Let's talk about the economic realities that are facing this incoming administration.

It's difficult.

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