Truth Caviar

Welcome to Truth Caviar. This is a show about ideas that matter in business, politics, technology, science, finance, economics, history---you name it. We provide you with everything you need to get ahead of the curve of unprecedented technological, political, economic, and societal changes occurring today and shaping the future. Co-hosted by global thinkers---Vadim and Brent---who draw on their extensive experiences in Silicon Valley, Washington, and Wall Street. We skate where the puck is going, not where it is today. From AI and web3 to the Great Reset and Geopolitics, we take a deep dive into and connect the dots between the most pressing themes, topics, news, events, and ideas that will impact---for better or for worse---life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness across time, scale and space. And what must be done to ensure that freedom prevails and Western civilization is preserved. No bias. No bull. No fear. Just hard truths.

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Monopolies, Oligopolies, and Freedom

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11/10/22 • 75 min

Capitalism is an economic system in which private enterprise competes in a free market. Competition is vital to maintaining a free market. Capitalism without competition isn't capitalism---it's an oligarchy. Competitive capitalism enables economic freedom. As Milton Friedman famously declared, “economic freedom is a necessary condition for political freedom.” In other words, without economic freedom, political freedom cannot exist. But capitalism that we see today is a far cry from the competitive capitalism that Milton Friedman defended.
Since the 1980s, antitrust enforcement has been virtually nonexistent and, as a result, market concentration has sharply increased. Today, many industries are controlled by, at most, a few large players---monopolies or oligopolies. The economic and political consequences of this market concentration of power are profound: less investment; lower productivity; less innovation; higher prices for consumers; lower revenues for suppliers and small businesses; lower wages and more wealth inequality; fewer jobs, higher unemployment, and lower labor force participation; withering of American towns and the American Dream; less localism and more centralization; low economic growth; corporate wokeness and crony capitalism; corporate and government collusion.
This enormous concentration of market power has fostered a culture of "regulatory capture," whereby a few dominant players cozy up to government regulators in an effort to rig the system and the rules---including lax antitrust enforcement that lowers competition and enactment of regulations that keep out new entrants---in their favor, and donate to politicians who then turn around and pass legislation favorable to them. We don't live in a democracy. We live in an oligarchy.
We discuss the insidious effects of monopolies and oligopolies on our economy, democracy, and freedom; regulatory capture, revolving door, Big Tech, horizontal shareholding; corporate and government collusion; the rise of the Great Reset, totalitarianism, and the 21st century fascism; the midterm elections; and, as always, we connect the dots.
The Myth of Capitalism: https://amzn.to/3DX4pwH

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Woke Capitalism

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07/21/22 • 54 min

In this episode, Brent and Vadim discuss how corporate America has been captured by woke activists. They discuss woke investors, woke CEOs, woke consumers. Shareholder vs. Stakeholder Capitalism. The purpose of a corporation. Managerial elite. Diversity, Inclusion & Equity (DIE). ESG. Financialization of the American economy. The merging of Big Government & Big Business.
Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy: https://amzn.to/3t0zsCx

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The Psychology of Totalitarianism, Mass Formation, Corruption of Science

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12/08/22 • 62 min

The Enlightenment tradition ushered in the era of science, progress, diversity of ideas, and the use of reason and logic to seek objective truth. Over time, however, as it made great discoveries and proved the falsities of religious dogmas, science became corrupted by ideology---it went from disproving the majority to being the tool of the majority; from fighting coercion and oppression to being used for coercion and oppression; from questioning religion to being religion; from truth-telling to truth-hiding. A real scientist understands that the world is too complex, nuanced, and dynamic to be neatly represented by numbers, charts, and graphs. Uncertainty, risk, and probability---not determinism---is the way of life.
But there's a price of progress. The industrialization, mechanization, and technologization of the world---while achieving many benefits---has produced loneliness, social isolation, and lack of social bonds among the population; loss of connection to nature; pointless administrative and technocratic jobs---bullshit jobs; loss of meaning and purpose in life; and widespread presence of free-floating anxiety within the population. A population with these characteristics is primed for mass formation and the emergence of totalitarianism. Notable examples of a mass formation event include Donald Trump, Russia, coronavirus, climate change, and terrorism.
In this episode, we discuss the societal forces that lead to totalitarianism, mass formation psychosis, corruption of science, mechanistic science and ideology, COVID hysteria, World Economic Forum and the Great Reset, and more. As always, we connect the dots.
The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet: https://amzn.to/3FCzdVq

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Why Liberalism Failed

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11/03/22 • 62 min

Liberalism has failed because liberalism has succeeded. That's the thesis of Patrick Deneen's book, "Why Liberalism Failed." Liberalism redefined liberty as unrestrained individual autonomy free of what it saw as old, paternalistic constrains on individuals. Traditional norms and social structures that would foster virtue and self-control were seen as oppressive, arbitrary, out-of-date, and limiting "progress."
Unrestrained individualism requires statism. Liberalism empowers the state to set the rules of behavior in a society---as liberalism destroys the traditional communal groups that set norms constraining individuals and preventing anarchy. As Deneen writes, "statism enables individualism; individualism demands statism."
Both modern day "conservatives" and "liberals" are both liberals in a traditional sense. Conservatives, typically Republicans, are classical liberals. Neoliberals, Democrats, are progressive liberals. Both political parties are two sides of the same coin of liberalism. Conservatives defend individualism. Neoliberals defend statism. But liberalism advances both. You cannot have autonomous individuals---unconstrained by virtue and self-discipline---without increasing the power of the state.
All the problems facing America today---the financial crisis, inflation, crime, open borders, transgenderism, climate alarmism, techno-fascism, unaccountable "deep state," subversion of citizenship, globalization and loss of jobs, breakdown of families and morality, government dependence, wokeness, engineered viruses and global pandemics, etc.---arise from the failure of liberalism (i.e., paradoxically, liberalism's achievement).
The "noble lie" of liberalism has been exposed. The liberal elites---the hollow elites as the great Charles Murray calls them---continue to deny their privilege and virtue-signal with a veneer of social justice in the name of self-interest and self-preservation while the working class suffers. Previous ruling classes knew they were rich and privileged and acted like it. They understood they had a duty to help the less fortunate and to pass down the traits and behaviors that made them succeed because when everybody succeeds America succeeds. Modern liberal elites pretend they are victims and sufferers of great injustices while accumulating more and more wealth and power at the expense of everybody else. And all of that power is used to suppress, control, and neuter the voices and rights of the working class.
We discuss the failure of liberalism, Deneen's book, Elon Musk acquiring Twitter; and connect the dots on this episode.

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Victimhood, Identity Politics, War on Merit and Excellence, National Decline

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10/19/22 • 72 min

Victimhood is America’s currency of the day. There are fake victims everywhere---from Jussie Smollett to Naomi Osaka to Rachel Dolezal to Michelle Obama to Stacey Abrams. Victimhood is the fastest path to garner sympathy, and to use that sympathy to greater money and influence in America today. There's a difference between victimhood and hardship. Everyone encounters hardship. But one chooses to be a victim.
Victimhood breeds mediocrity, incompetence, economic disaster, and national decline. Victimhood and identity politics are tools used by elites to avoid accountability. All empires eventually fall. Some are defeated by foreign enemies; some are debased by domestic greed and power.
The downward spiral of victimhood leads nowhere good---to a country where identity groups subjugate each other depending on who's in power. Victimhood breeds more victimhood as groups try to stick it to their so-called oppressors. That's not equality. That's not freedom. That's tyranny masquerading as social justice.
Our society is corrupted by Orwellian use of language used by the ruling class to gaslight us. Conformity is "diversity." Inequality is "equity." Racism is "anti-racism." Exclusion is "inclusion." These linguistic lies are used to disempower individuals and empower woke elites and totalitarians.
We discuss and connect the dots on victimhood, identity politics, merit, excellence, and the future of the country.
Nation of Victims by Vivek Ramaswamy: https://amzn.to/3CWxGIq

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The China Threat

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09/26/22 • 82 min

Since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, it has used every dirty trick in the book and unfair trade practices to undermine American manufacturing and industries; steal our ideas, jobs, and intellectual property; engage in espionage and cyber-espionage; use its intelligence agencies to help state-run companies create jobs, increase GDP, and build up its military might; and reduce American economic growth and geopolitical influence.
China lied to the world about it's long-term strategy and how it would behave if admitted into the WTO. Contrary to misguided American beliefs that China would become more democratic if allowed to expand its economy, it has since become more totalitarian as evidenced by its treatment of Uyghurs and the Hong Kong democracy protesters. Give a tiger more food, and it wants more food.
In his book, Death by China, Peter Navarro details China's "Eight Weapons of [American] Job Destruction": illegal export subsidies, currency manipulation, theft of intellectual property, environmental damage, lack of health and safety standards, colonialism and global control of raw materials, predatory pricing and "dumping" practices, and the "Great Walls of Protectionism."
At the same time, China seeks to replace the United States as the number one world power by 2049, if not sooner, or 100 years since China’s revolution in 1949: its 100-year marathon to world domination. To accomplish its goal, it has used the strategy of deception to deceive and manipulate Americans to obtain intelligence, and connive Americans to get more assistance for its military, technology, and economy. Induce complacency, hide in plain sight, and wait to strike when America is weakest.
The China Threat is a totalitarian take over of the world and it must be stopped. Brent and Vadim discuss these and related issues on this episode.
Death by China by Peter Navarro: https://amzn.to/3dIFFiO
The Hundred-Year Marathon Michael Pillsbury: https://amzn.to/3UIwDmw

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Globalism and The Dying Citizen

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12/01/22 • 71 min

Citizenship is synonymous with representative government. Citizens are not residents, serfs, peasants, or subjects. To be a citizen is to have inalienable rights---rights that cannot be taken away by some ruler or king. Today only about half of the world’s population are citizens of fully consensual governments enjoying constitutionally protected freedoms. They are almost exclusively in the West. Democracy is a rarity and only about 22 current democracies have been in existence for over half a century. That’s why you see people, come hell or high water, go through the southern border into the United States or go through the Mediterranean to reach Western Europe. People would rather be a citizen in a new, unfamiliar country than be a serf, peasant, noncitizen, or subject in their homelands.
But today, we in the West take citizenship for granted. We falsely believe that citizenship has always and will continue to exist. Some even say that, in a borderless world, the idea of a nation-state is outdated---preferring to call themselves "citizens of the world." They forget that citizenship is an exception rather than the rule. There were no citizens for most of human history. In a monarchy, theocracy, or autocracy, people did not have inalienable rights. Elected representatives did not exist. Citizenship was a revolutionary idea that came quite late to civilization. Citizenship is precious and must be cherished. It requires work. Democracy is fleeting. It’s not easy to govern oneself---much less to protect and exercise your freedoms.
We discuss a multitude of toxic forces that degrade national sovereignty and undermine citizenship, including the decline of the middle class, open borders and illegal immigration, identity politics and tribalism, unelected administrative state ("deep state"), technocratic "evolutionaries," and globalism. As always, we connect the dots.
The Dying Citizen by Victor Davis Hanson: https://amzn.to/3ioKsHX

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Crime Crisis, Criminal Justice Reform, War on Cops

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10/13/22 • 58 min

Crime is out of control in America, inflamed by a dangerous anti-police narrative being pushed by progressive elites and activists, corporate media, and academia: America's criminal justice system is systemically oppressive and racist, that America has a mass incarceration problem---too many people are in jail---driven by 'overpolicing' and 'overprosecution,' and that cops are hunting down black and brown people.
This narrative is easily and devastatingly debunked using official government crime data. In so doing, we shed light on what is actually going on in America's most dangerous neighborhoods. Progressive policy prescriptions such as defund/abolish the police and emptying prisons would wreak havoc on the same marginalized communities progressives claim to be fighting for.
In the largest crime spike since the country got (correctly) tough on crime in the 1990s---with mandatory minimum sentences, three strikes laws, truth-in-sentencing regimes, and proactive policing---America witnessed over 21,000 murders in 2020, a 30 percent increase over 2019. We debunk the progressive narrative that racial disparities in arrests imply that law enforcement is systemically racist. Irresponsible false narrative reduces police presence in high-crime neighborhoods and puts the very same people on those behalf progressives say they are fighting in greater danger and with devastating consequences.
Without law and order, there are no private property rights. Without private property rights, there’s no capitalism. Without capitalism, there’s no freedom. Without freedom, we’re are no different than a Third World country that you don’t want to live in.
We discuss and connect the dots on crime and criminal justice reform in this episode.
Criminal (In)justice by Rafael Mangual: https://amzn.to/3Cvkxoi

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Opioid, Fentanyl, Meth Epidemics, Mental Illness and Homelessness Crises, and the War on the Individual

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09/16/22 • 62 min

There's a war being waged on the American individual. Fentanyl---a hyper-potent synthetic opioid manufactured in China and trafficked through Mexico---is killing Americans at unprecedented rates. More Americans now die yearly from fentanyl overdoses than died during the entire Vietnam War. Fentanyl has disrupted the drug world the way tech start-ups disrupt established industries.
Meanwhile, Mexican drug traffickers, using chemical precursors from China, figured out a more potent way to synthesize methamphetamine. This new meth is cheaper, more potent, and more destructive. It destroys the brains of its users, making them schizophrenic---displaying paranoia, psychosis and hallucinations; frantic with imaginary demons; and screaming on the streets for no apparent reason. Meth prompts users with strange obsessions---with bicycles, with backpacks, with flashlights, and with hoarding junk. Users become mentally ill. All they do is seek dope. They don't remember basic things like where they are, what time it is, and can't even remember their names or their families. And this meth induced mental illness spawned a homelessness crisis across the country---with tents popping up everywhere, from sea to shining sea. Contrary to conventional wisdom, homelessness isn't caused by poverty. Homelessness is a symptom of drug-induced mental illness that can befall on anyone regardless of income or socioeconomic status.
COVID-19 lockdowns further intensified the problem. Lockdowns re-created the conditions that gave rise to the opioid epidemic: widespread job loss and isolation. Those in recovery and those who lost their jobs relapsed. Alone, addicts overdosed and died.
Brent and Vadim tackle America's drug, mental illness, and homelessness crises in this episode. They trace the history of the Opioid Era in America---the main players, the symptoms, the consequences, the downstream effects, and why it's important that we put a stop to it if America is to remain the global superpower. They discuss Purdue Pharma and its addictive painkiller OxyContin. The role management consulting firm McKinsey played in the opioid epidemic. How Walmart has been the epicenter of crime for those seeking dope. How an open border exacerbates the crises. The war being waged by China and the Mexican drug traffickers on the American soul. And much more.
The Least of Us book: https://amzn.to/3eW8gRT

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Working-Class and Blue Collar Conservatism

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11/22/22 • 47 min

To win in 2024, Republicans need to---heeding the lessons from Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and even Richard Nixon---appeal to Blue Collar Conservatives and build a multiracial working-class coalition.
BCCs are lower- to middle-class voters in industrial and rural communities with generally conservative values, typically without a college degree, and who have been devastated by outsourcing and offshoring of jobs, bad corporate and union leadership, neglectful elected officials, and the ruling class that would rather virtue-signal than help them. They are swing voters in critical swing states in the Rust Belt---Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The media has called them the "white working-class"---although they aren't defined strictly by their race and are made up of individuals of all races. They don't look to government for help, but believe in the social safety net.
Globalization and automation in the manufacturing economy, the opioid crisis, and the breakdown of marriage and family are the leading causes of suffering in BCC communities. Republicans need to develop ideas and policies to help these Americans. Another tax cut and repeating the pieties of "growth" won't cut it. We need to restore the American Dream for workers. Republicans must be the party that fights so that each and every American can achieve their God-given potential.
In the wake of the Great Depression, BCCs supported FDR's New Deal, and successful Republican Presidents who appealed to them, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump. They were "Democrats for Eisenhower" and the "Reagan Democrats." Many voted for Obama in 2008/2012, then voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. Republicans have a long history of championing working Americans going back to Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, the trust buster who improved working conditions.
In this episode, we connect these dots, drawing on a historical perspective, and discuss what Republicans must do to appeal to BCCs, restore American greatness, and form a winning coalition in 2024 and beyond.
Blue Collar Conservatives by Rick Santorum: https://amzn.to/3gu6LLU
The Working-Class Republican by Henry Olsen: https://amzn.to/3gtndvL

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The podcast is about Economics, Finance, Business, History, News, Science, Technology, News Commentary, Politics and Political Science.

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The episode title 'The Psychology of Totalitarianism, Mass Formation, Corruption of Science' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Truth Caviar is 60 minutes.

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