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Steve Forbes says the Federal Reserve is punishing prosperity instead of protecting the dollar. “The Federal Reserve is supposed to be the guardian of the dollar.” “The Federal Reserve has taken on the crazy idea that prosperity causes inflation.” “If you start doing well, the Fed doesn’t like that.” “They think they have to put you out of work.” “They think they have to slow the economy.” “The role of the Fed should be very simple.” “Stable value for the dollar.” “We have 60 minutes in an hour. We don't change that each day.” “When the Federal Reserve starts to try to manipulate what the economy does.” “It just messes things up.” “When the government gets in there, we all end up paying a price for it.” “Leave the economy alone.” We discussed the rise of democratic socialism, the strategic importance of Taiwan, and why he believes any deal with the Iranian regime must be approached with extreme caution. Watch👉https://ept.ms/44utSLL

“Socialism is tyranny.” Democratic socialism is taking off in America. Steve Forbes says its supporters don’t understand where socialism ultimately leads. “Ignorance is bliss, if you know nothing about socialism.” “Name one country that has succeeded in socialism.” “It never has happened.” “You’re gonna stagnate.” “You should have the freedom not to stagnate.” “The market problems we have today were created by the government, and so if you make those changes and remove those barriers, we move ahead.” I sat down with @SteveForbesCEO to discuss the resurgence of democratic socialism, the role of the Federal Reserve, and the economic challenges facing the United States. We also discussed the importance of the U.S.-Taiwan relationship and what he believes should be the next steps for the United States in dealing with the Iranian regime. Watch the full conversation here: https://ept.ms/44utSLL

Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-In-Chief of Forbes Media, just revealed what’s wrong with the Federal Reserve. He said: “The Federal Reserve is supposed to be the guardian of the dollar.” “We have 60 minutes in an hour. We don't change that each day.” “Imagine if the Fed was in charge of the time bureau, and they floated the clocks!” “They had 48 minutes in an hour one day, 96 the next.” “Imagine baking a cake.” “Instructions say, ‘bake the batter for 30 minutes.’” “You have to ask yourself: Are those nominal minutes? Inflation-adjusted minutes? Nevada minutes? Mexican minutes? “You want a stable measure of value.” “The Federal Reserve trying to manipulate interest rates just messes things up.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/44utSLL

Judd Saul says there is no doubt Christians are facing a genocide in Nigeria. “They are wiping out entire communities.” “Since this started happening 30 years ago.” “There’s been 800 Christian communities completely wiped off the map.” “On average, we’re estimating between 5,000 to 10,000 Christians are killed a year.” “35 Christians are killed a day in Nigeria.” “The Nigerian government is not protecting them.” “No one’s talking about the long-term death that occurs after these people are put into camps.” “What is happening in Nigeria is a genocide.” Judd Saul joined me to discuss the ongoing jihadist violence against Christian communities in Nigeria and the devastating long-term consequences for those forced to flee their homes. Full interview here:https://ept.ms/4hbwSnA

“For the last five years, 90% of all Christian persecution deaths worldwide have occurred in Nigeria.” Thousands of Christians are being killed in Nigeria every year for their faith, yet much of the world has no idea. Judd Saul says the crisis goes far beyond the killings, with millions more driven from their homes and left to starve. “It’s not just persecution deaths.” “It’s the 5 million Christians that have been displaced from their homes.” “When a village is attacked, these people have lost everything they own.” “The survivors are shoved and pushed into IDP camps.” “These are refugees within their own country.” “They can’t farm.” “They can’t do anything.” “They’re basically starving to death.” “You have the immediate killings that are taking place.” “But now you have more Christians dying because of starvation and malnutrition.” Watch the full conversation here: https://ept.ms/4hbwSnA

"35 Christians are killed a day in Nigeria on average.” “The Nigerian government is not protecting them,” says Judd Saul, founder of Equipping the Persecuted. "This is a well-organized and funded Fulani Islamic militia who are hell-bent on turning Nigeria into a caliphate,” he says. An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 Christians are killed each year, averaging about 35 deaths per day, according to Saul. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4hbwSnA

Freya India blamed declining birth rates and marriage rates on one thing that we don’t talk about enough: P–n addiction. “I think… the birth rates, declining marriage rates, a lot of that can be put down to p–n.” “Where we aren't being intimate with each other because we're busy watching strangers.” Freya India is convinced that the side effects of p–nography addiction are much, much worse than you think. This interview is a must-watch. We discuss declining marriage rates, birth rates, and social media addiction See it for yourself below: https://youtu.be/nbJbwaUB5YM

“Social media is perfectly designed to trap women, and p–n is perfectly designed to trap men.” “Everyone in our generation is addicted to this.” Freya India is sounding the alarm. She told me that she grew up hearing that p–n addiction would not affect other parts of your life. “That’s been so drilled into my generation.” But she doesn’t believe that anymore—at all. “I think for the next generation, we really have to drill it into them that this is not a harmless habit.” “This is not something you can file away.” “It’s gonna bleed into everything.” “And if you want to have a stable relationship, a family, if you even wanna have a strong sense of self-worth, then you need higher standards for yourself.” Watch our conversation below: https://youtu.be/nbJbwaUB5YM

P–nography is becoming many children’s first exposure to sex, warping their view of relationships before they’ve even had one. Freya India is sounding the alarm on this disturbing trend. “They have no clue what it would be like to have a relationship before watching p–n.” “A lot of it is accidental.” “It came up on Instagram.” “It came up on Snapchat.” “That’s their first view of men and their first view of intimacy.” “It’s so warped.” “Often they can be looking at p–n for a decade before they’ve even had a first relationship.” “I'm really trying to get older generations to realize that social media is not just a bad habit.” “It’s quite literally forming their view of the world.” “Before they’ve even entered the world and had proper experiences.” Freya India joined me to discuss her new book, Girls, and why she believes social media is fundamentally changing how children understand relationships, intimacy, and the world around them. Full interview here: https://youtu.be/nbJbwaUB5YM

“Since the rise of social media, girls have really seen themselves as nothing but objects in a marketplace.” Freya India says social media has fundamentally changed how many young women view themselves, relationships, and their future. “That is the aim of their life.” “To sell themselves online and to become almost the perfect product.” “I think that affects not only young women's happiness, because it's a miserable existence to chase likes and followers and these online metrics, but it also affects how they treat men.” “Often they see men as just accessories for their online profiles.” “A lot of young women no longer value getting married or having children.” “The pull of social media is so strong.” “Their view of themselves is that they are literally just an object to be sold.” Watch the full conversation here: https://youtu.be/nbJbwaUB5YM

“Since the rise of social media, girls have really seen themselves as nothing but objects in a marketplace.” “The aim of their life is to sell themselves online and to become the perfect product,” says Freya India, author of ““Girls: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything." “People initially thought that social media would be a supplement” to human community. “That wasn't the case.” “It was our first encounter of intimacy, or relationships, or community.” “I'm really trying to get older generations to realize that social media is not just a bad habit that young people have, it's quite literally forming their view of the world.” 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://youtu.be/nbJbwaUB5YM

The CCP has created laws that can criminalize people around the world for saying simple things like Taiwan is its own country. “If you promote Uyghurs.” “If you’re a Free Tibet person.” “They can prosecute you under the legal code in absentia.” “You could be prosecuted without your knowledge.” “When you show up in a country that has an extradition law.” “You can suddenly be arrested and be brought to China to face your prison term.” “If you or I promote the idea that Taiwan is a separate country.” “The law allows them to have this legal justification.” I spoke with a retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col., Guermantes Lailari, to discuss China’s military expansion, the threat to Taiwan, and how Beijing is attempting to extend its legal and political influence across the world. For the whole interview click below: https://ept.ms/4wDa0SH

“The capacity of China’s navy yards is 200 times more than the United States.” The CCP has quietly built a military capable of challenging the United States. Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col, Guermantes Lailari, breaks down the alarming numbers. “China has been growing its military at such a rapid pace.” “Today, China’s navy is larger than the U.S. Navy.” “China’s Coast Guard is bigger than every other coast guard combined.” “They’ve got so many ships.” “The actual amount of weapon systems that are being built is incredible.” https://rumble.com/v7cj74y-how-beijings-new-law-seeks-to-crush-dissent-worldwide.html

"The only way Xi can achieve [his legacy] is to finish the job that Mao didn't finish - which is to take Taiwan,” says Guermantes Lailari, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and longtime China researcher. Lailari moved to Taiwan to study the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) up close. In our interview he argues that China poses the most serious long-term threat to Western civilization—not just militarily, but through a combination of legal, economic, psychological, and intelligence operations. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4wDa0SH

Nick Freitas says young men must reject a victim mentality and embrace what it truly means to be a man. “What defines a man?” “Your ability to put aside a desire for comfort.” “Or a desire to avoid danger.” “To fulfill your word.” “To protect the people that you love.” “And to protect the things that you love.” “Even this generation of men will have to suck it up and be a man and get the job done. “We're not gonna convince them of that if we don't first acknowledge that for the last 20 years, they’ve largely been told to sit down, shut up, and that they have no place.” “If they choose to be victims.” “I’m gonna tell them they’ve adopted a victim mentality.” “We need them.” “If they don’t like what’s going on in society.” “They need to be a part of the solution.” Nick Freitas says society has spent years telling young men they have no place. His message is simple: reject victimhood, embrace responsibility, and help build something better. https://ept.ms/4fnK4V9

“There is a lot of anti-American propaganda.” Matt Mehan just told me that American art has lost touch with our “character, our faith, our way of life, our love of equality,” and has become increasingly nihilistic. “Think of Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad.” “Breaking Bad is artistically excellent.” “But it is 40+ hours of dark, horrible… underworld drug dealing.” He says we have a “fascination with anti-heroes” in our modern art. “We haven’t done a lot of sincere, straightforward, Capra-esque, love of country, love of family, love of the good.” But his new book, The American Book of Fables, takes a radically different approach. “I traveled the country.” “I read through the history of the country to get the local flavor, but also… the settler’s spirit of the American character.” Watch our conversation below: https://youtu.be/r3m6w4UIpvI

“The very people that claim to wanna stop fascism, Nazism, bigotry, and everything else, are the ones actually allowing for those things to be reconsidered.” Nick Freitas says society spent years telling young men they were the enemy. Now many are searching for answers in dangerous places. “If you wanna know why a lot of young men are starting to entertain ideas, philosophies, and ideologies that we thought were left dead and buried in the 20th century.” “That’s why.” “For 20 years they’ve been told… that they’re Nazis and that they’re fascists.” “Imagine you’re a young man.” “You’re being called these things by people who clearly hate you.” “If all of your enemies hate that thing.” “Maybe it’s time to reconsider that thing.” https://rumble.com/v7cen3o-what-young-men-lose-when-screens-replace-risk-danger-and-real-world-courage.html

In the 1960s, children across every income level were overwhelmingly raised by two married parents. Today, Rob Henderson says that has changed dramatically for working-class and poorer families. “In 1960… 95% of the kids were raised by two married parents.” “For upper and upper middle class kids, by 2005 It declined slightly from 95% to 85%.” “If you look at poor and working class kids, it dropped from 95% to 30%.” “Now if you visit a lot of working class, blue collar, impoverished areas.” “Seeing kids in what the idea of the family is… that’s an anomaly.” @robkhenderson joined me to discuss the dramatic decline of the two-parent family and what that shift has meant for working-class communities. Full interview here: https://ept.ms/4paWT8D

“Most of pop culture” has told young men that they “are responsible for all the world’s ills.” “A young man's obvious and, quite frankly, logical response to that is: Do you mean the civilization that hates me? Or the civilization that was too weak to protect me from the popular culture that hates me? Because either way, that's not an enticement.” As a result, young men are turning toward bad ideologies. What is the solution? “They want a noble mission,” says former Green Beret Nick Freitas, author of “The Manbook.” “They want to do difficult things, they want to do hard things.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4fnK4V9

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸Happy America 250!! As millions of visitors pour in for the World Cup, many are being struck by what they see: hospitality, optimism, and an incredible American spirit that’s been caricatured for far too long. Matt Mehan’s "The American Book of Fables" is a love letter to that spirit. It’s an ambitious attempt to recover our moral imagination through stories, paintings, history, and poetry. Mehan insists that patriotism is beyond shallow emotion. It’s rooted in gratitude, in shared memory, and in the habits of civic friendship that make self-government possible in the first place. He argues that if Americans lose that, we lose something essential about who we are. There is perhaps no better time than America’s semiquincentennial to reflect on the laws, the beauty, the people, and the principles which gave rise to this great nation. Happy Independence Day, America! 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://youtu.be/r3m6w4UIpvI