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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio
 
Hour One
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 1, Block A: Avik Roy is an Indian-American journalist and policy advisor; co-founder and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity; Forbes.com & Manhattan Institute; in re: the American Heath Care Act:  AHCA and Medicaid and the fate of the repeal and replace.   . . .  We’ve all grown up in in environment where rich people get govt subsidy for their health care - $500 billion PA for the upper middle class.  Republicans won't challenge that.  Friedrich Hayek: health care for all is good.  In fact, we need to subsidize health care for the poor and then have the govt get out of the way for everyone else.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2017/03/20/one-step-forward-one-step-backward-house-gop-publishes-managers-amendment-to-ryancare/#6309bf22a549
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 1, Block B:   Avik Roy, Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity; Forbes.com & Manhattan Institute; in re: Medicare; new layer of federal regulations.  Ryan: cap on per capita expenditures.
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 1, Block C: Daniel Griswold, Mercatus Center; in re:   A new study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University explains how America’s trade with the rest of the world is always balanced when investment flows are considered in addition to the exchange of goods and services. Foreign trade; international trade; US trade deficit balanced by investment flows: goods, services, assets.  If we have a $500bil trade deficit, the money comes back to the US to buy our assets; that is, an investment surplus.  Analysis of two of Peter Navarro’s statements.  .8% lower interest rates to Americans because of foreign investment in Treasurys, e.g.  Counts as $115/mo for homeowners.  The largest investor in the US is: Great Britain.  Border adjustment tax is a terrible idea. See paper at Mercatus.org; The chart shows that the current rate of immigration to the United States is actually well within the norm of our historical experience.  Abt four trillion flows out of the US annually – and the same amount flows back in.   . Someone has been giving the president dreadful advice; our greatest [asset] in this matter is our economy.
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 1, Block D: John Tamny, Forbes.com, RealClearMarkets; and author, Who Needs the Fed?, and  Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You about Economics; in re:  The appointment of David Malpass at Treasury: U.S. Treasury undersecretary for international affairs; ensures that the most important department for U.S. economic policy has a major force inside strongly supporting a stable dollar in concert with a reduced tax burden.  In particular, Malpass's longtime articulation of the importance of stable money as a measure cannot be minimized.  RealClearMarkets.  The U.S. Treasury, and the Exciting Arrival of David Malpass
 
Hour Two
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 2, Block A:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin; in re: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/rex-tillerson-skip-key-nato-summit-plans-travel-russia-n736226 (1 of 4)
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 2, Block B: Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; in re:  http://time.com/4706721/read-rep-adam-schiffs-opening-statement-on-russian-meddling-in-the-election/ (2 of 4)
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 2, Block C: Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord (3 of 4)
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 2, Block D: Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord (4 of 4)
 
Hour Three
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 3, Block A:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re:
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 3, Block B:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re:
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 3, Block C:   Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World, by Adrian Goldsworthy  (3 of 6)
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 3, Block D:  Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World, by Adrian Goldsworthy  (4 of 6)
 
Hour Four
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 4, Block A:  Scalia: A Court of One, by Bruce Allen Murphy (1 of 2)
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 4, Block B:  Scalia: A Court of One, by Bruce Allen Murphy (2 of 2)
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 4, Block C: Rick Carlson, Nature magazine, in re: Planetary science: Earth's building blocks   (1 of 2) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v541/n7638/full/541468a.html
Tuesday  21 March 2017 / Hour 4, Block D:   Rick Carlson, Nature magazine, in re: Planetary science: Earth's building blocks   (2 of 2) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v541/n7638/full/541468a.html
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