The WFEA Morning Update

Policy Expert-Cultural Pundit Allen Mednenhall: Country Roads and Homer’s Odessey
Policy Expert-Cultural Pundit Allen Mednenhall: Country Roads and Homer’s Odessey

We run the full gamut with economic and policy expert Allen Medenhall, Research Fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Senior Advisor for the Free Enterprise Initiative.

Host Jeff Chidester and Allen start by discussing the economy and structural strengths that the corporate media misses. They flow into a discussion of the recent announcement about the Trump Accounts and the health of the European economy.

Allen and Jeff discuss the rise of socialism and Democratic Socialist candidates in the USA: how did this impact our current politics? We end with a conversation about the upcoming release of Christopher Nolan’s Homer’s ‘The Odessey.’ Is Hollywood destroying a classic work of Western literature?

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