The Debt Dialogues

In this weekly podcast series, Don Watkins, fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, talks to a diverse range of guests about the welfare state crisis and what to do about it.

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Episode 47: R.J. Renza, Jr. on Social Security

01-09-2015

I interview R.J. Renza Jr., author of How Are You Not Angry Yet? How Social Security is Destroying the Futures, Finances and Hopes of Generations X, Y and Z and How We Can Put an End To It, on the vital need to end Social Security.

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Episode 43: Peter Ferrara on Entitlement Reform

04-08-2015

In this episode, I interview Peter Ferrara, senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute, on how to address the entitlement crisis.

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Episode 31: Don Watkins on the Debt Draft

29-10-2014

The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, you'll hear my recent talk “End the Debt Draft: How the Welfare State Is Exploiting Millennials.”

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Episode 28: Romina Boccia on Social Security and the Millennial Generation

23-09-2014

The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Romina Boccia, the Grover M. Hermann Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, on Social Security.

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Episode 20: Sylvester Schieber On America's So-Called Retirement Crisis

29-07-2014

In this episode, I interview Sylvester Schieber.

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Episode 17: Don Watkins on "Generational Theft"

08-07-2014

In this episode of The Debt Dialogues, I contrast my own approach to the welfare state crisis with those who label it “generational theft,” and discuss why no one — not even the elderly — benefit from the welfare state.

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Episode 2: Charles Blahous on Social Security

19-03-2014

In this episode of the Debt Dialogues, I talk with Charles Blahous, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a public trustee for Social Security and Medicare, about the Social Security program.

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