On November 7, 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Rahimi. The Court considered whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), prohibiting the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic-violence restraining orders, violated the Second Amendment on its face
Join us as we break down and analyze how oral argument went before the Court.
Featuring:
Professor Mark W. Smith, Presidential Scholar and Senior Fellow in Law and Public Policy, The King’s College
The Bulwark Podcast - Adam Kinzinger: Why Trump 2.0 Will Be Worse
Trump wants to weaponize the office of the presidency, and who would stop him? We have a built-in weakness of basing our constitutional norms on the honor system. Plus, the Democrats have a Hamas problem. Adam Kinzinger joins Charlie Sykes for the weekend pod.
CoinDesk Podcast Network - UNCHAINED: Why Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Is So Pro-Crypto
The GOP presidential candidate also talks about how pegging the dollar to a basket of commodities that could eventually include Bitcoin would help the U.S. economy, and why he hates the idea of a CBDC.
Vivek Ramaswamy is likely the biggest supporter of crypto among the current crop of presidential candidates. But his enthusiasm comes not from an inherent love of the technology or its principles themselves, but a dissatisfaction with what he calls the “administrative state” that’s stifled innovation in a number of important industries, crypto among them.
On this episode of Unchained, Ramaswamy discusses his radical plan to slash the number of people working at federal agencies; his three-point crypto policy plan based on the freedom to code as a protected form of expression, the freedom of financial self-reliance, and the freedom to innovate free from regulatory overreach; why the current orientation of the U.S. government towards regulation of the crypto industry by enforcement isn’t helping anyone; his plans to stabilize the U.S. dollar by pegging it to a basket of commodities that could eventually include Bitcoin; why he’s so opposed to central bank digital currencies; and what industries he thinks could benefit from the use of blockchain technology.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Show highlights |
- How Vivek, who has a background in biotech, fell down the “crypto rabbit hole”
- How the administrative branch of government doesn't work like it's supposed to, according to Vivek
- Why he believes the government poses a threat to the future of crypto
- How he would respond to a situation in which the code of a smart contract is exploited
- How Vivek would prevent the use of crypto for illicit ends
- Why he thinks that the current status quo in terms of crypto regulation is the “worst of all worlds”
- Vivek’s plan to stabilize the U.S. dollar by pegging it to a basket of commodities, potentially including Bitcoin
- Why he is so against the creation of a central bank digital currency in the U.S.
- How blockchain technology can be used to help the U.S. maintain its technological supremacy
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Guest
Vivek Ramaswamy, 2024 U.S. Presidential Candidate
Vivek on The Chopping Block: Why Vivek Ramaswamy Wants Less Crypto Regulation
Links
Original speech unveiling his crypto policy plan at the North American Blockchain Summit 2023
Unchained: GOP Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Makes the Case for Reduced Crypto Regulation
Bloomberg: Ramaswamy’s Crypto Deregulation Plan Is Scaring the Industry
CoinDesk: Ramaswamy Shares Crypto Plan, Making Him the Only GOP Candidate Who Has One
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Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC. Distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Michele Musso and Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz.
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the memory palace - Episode 210: Smoky and Bill
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.
Music
I Believe in the Night by Keith Kenniff
Improvisations sur les folies d’Espagne (extraits) from Marin Marais and Jordi Savall
Finally by Lambert
Voltige by Marin Lizotte
Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick
Fratres fur violin und klavier by Avro Part as played by Ursula Schloch and Marcel Worms
Dungen by Henrik Lindstom
Notes
- There are plenty of places to go to read about Smoky and Bill but why would want to go anywhere else than his book, Yorkie Doodle Dandy?
Big Technology Podcast - ChatGPT Gets Lazy, Elon Musk Blasts Advertisers and Releases The Cybertruck, Jack Ma Returns
Louise Matsakis is a reporter at Semafor covering AI. She joins us for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) ChatGPT getting lazy 2) The commoditization of AI companies 3) Anthropic’s unique board governance 4) Anthropic’s EA connections and the state of EA 5) Amazon’s Q chatbot 6) Elon Musk tells advertisers to F themselves 7) The drawbacks of brand safety puritanism 8) The Cybertruck is here. 9) Jack Ma appears in public for the first time in years.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Would Lower Oil Prices Be Good or Bad for Bitcoin?
Noelle Acheson, the mind behind the Crypto Is Macro Now newsletter, explores the crypto market rally, energy prices, how oil prices impact bitcoin and more.
Today's episode is sponsored by CME Group and Harpie.
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Today’s Stories:
Bitcoin Rises to $38.8K for the First Time Since May 2022
GDPNow - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
China’s Xi Seen Delaying Key Economic Plenum, Defying Norms - Bloomberg
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This episode was hosted by Noelle Acheson. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: What is Agent Orange?
Named for the orange stripe lining the 55 gallon barrels containing this herbicide and defoliant, Agent Orange was one of the most widely-used "rainbow herbicides" of the Vietnam war. But it wasn't just harmful to plants. Soon after it was deployed in Vietnam, Vietnamese citizens and US veterans alike reported crippling, life-threatening symptoms.
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Today's podcast is a hybrid. The first part, about the appalling rhetoric used by Antony Blinken about Israel and its conduct of the war that has now restarted, was recorded Friday morning, December 1. The second half, about the passing of Henry Kissinger and my trip to the massacre site in Israel, was recorded Thursday afternoon, November 30. Please be understanding as you give a listen.
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Focus on Africa - World AIDS day: What is it like to live with the condition for 30 years?
Four Kenyan women living with HIV have won a legal battle over being sterilised without their informed consent. In this special edition of Focus on Africa for World Aids Day, we delve into the impact of HIV/ AIDS on the African Continent.
CBS News Roundup - 12/01/2023 | World News Roundup
Cease fire over as fighting resumes between Israel and Hamas.. Wounded Palestinian-American speaks out. Expulsion vote for George Santos. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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