American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"It's the strangest thing to watch – the way one number coming out on Friday morning, with just a tiny tick-up in the unemployment rate, would completely change the ethos of Washington, Wall Street, [and] all mainstream media. In the blink of an eye, we went from 'the booming, growing economy, we're so happy, inflation's gone, things are fantastic' to suddenly 'Oh no! The recession is probably already here, the world's falling apart, what are we going to do? Sell, sell, sell.' To say the least, it’s an overreaction when, for one thing, the data is a month old…The decay in the jobs market has been very, overwhelmingly obvious to me and many others for at least two years, if not going back. We've never really recovered out of the lockdown period. We never recovered the worker participation ratios or labor participation rates. They're still below 2019 levels. And we can take apart the jobs data - there's a growing divergence between household survey and business payrolls, strongly suggesting double counting in the establishment survey. That gap never previously even existed. And then suddenly, in the last four years, it appeared and it's widening. It gets wider to the point that one is plunging and the other is rising." Jeffrey Tucker 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0808JeffreyTucker

"It's the strangest thing to watch – the way one number coming out on Friday morning, with just a tiny tick-up in the unemployment rate, would completely change the ethos of Washington, Wall Street, [and] all mainstream media. In the blink of an eye, we went from 'the booming, growing economy, we're so happy, inflation's gone, things are fantastic' to suddenly 'Oh no! The recession is probably already here, the world's falling apart, what are we going to do? Sell, sell, sell.' To say the least, it’s an overreaction when, for one thing, the data is a month old…The decay in the jobs market has been very, overwhelmingly obvious to me and many others for at least two years, if not going back. We've never really recovered out of the lockdown period. We never recovered the worker participation ratios or labor participation rates. They're still below 2019 levels. And we can take apart the jobs data - there's a growing divergence between household survey and business payrolls, strongly suggesting double counting in the establishment survey. That gap never previously even existed. And then suddenly, in the last four years, it appeared and it's widening. It gets wider to the point that one is plunging and the other is rising." Jeffrey Tucker 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0808JeffreyTucker

"You might ask yourself the question: Have I ever heard of one of the Muslim-majority countries, like Indonesia or Saudi Arabia, coming out very, very strongly against China's treatment of its Muslim Uyghur population?" -Eric Patterson 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0824EricPatterson

“[Communism] takes on all the practical trappings of religion in the sense that it does have its higher castes, it does have its high priests, in a sense it has its books..." - Victims of communism President & CEO Eric Patterson 🔴 PREMIERE 8/24, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0824EricPatterson

"Cybersecurity, as an industry, is designed to protect the corporate or the gov't castle, & in doing that, it leaves people out of the equation," says Chris Olson. Do we need a "digital iron dome" to protect against online crime? 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0822ChrisOlson

"Governments need to protect from digital crime like they do crime - a state, federal, and local issue. And we have yet to see that come in." Chris Olson says that #AI has triggered an explosion of targeted crimes online. 🔴 PREMIERE 8/22, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0822ChrisOlson

The next time #China sends nuclear-capable bombers near Alaska, “instead of just tolerating it…suspend the People's Bank of China's license to operate in the US for six months. Put a complete sort of ban on high-tech exports to China for some period of time,” argues retired U.S. Marine Colonel Grant Newsham. In this episode, he breaks down how the Chinese regime methodically expanded its control of the South China Sea over the last three decades—and how they’ve managed to get away with it. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0820GrantNewsham

"What you're seeing in the Philippines is just one more step in China's effort to tighten its control over all parts of the South China Sea…Some people might argue that this is actually strike three from the Filipino perspective when it comes to relying on the Americans." Ret. US Marine Colonel Grant Newsham breaks down the Chinese regime’s decadeslong strategy. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0820GrantNewsham

"Legislative bodies have a terrible track record in setting priorities...After 40-some odd years of no progress in Congress, the states are being looked at as the solution now. And the states do need to buck up." - W. Bruce Lee 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0817BruceLee

"At $35 trillion, we're spending more on interest payments than we do on our national defense." - W. Bruce Lee America's national debt is staggering, with $2 billion a day spent on interest alone. Is this sustainable? 🔴 PREMIERE 8/17, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0817BruceLee

"We know most violent crime and most property crimes aren't reported to police...We know that from the National Crime Victimization data...Other types of crimes have simply gotten much worse." Crime Prevention Research Center President John Lott 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0815JohnLott

"The media is talking about crime rates going down the last couple years. The problem is, I don't think most of the media understands the different numbers that are being put out." John Lott breaks down the data 👇 🔴 PREMIERE 8/15, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0815JohnLott

"If one of these were detonated over, say, Taipei, you would find out that instantly, everything in Taipei stopped working…Phones, laptops…hospital equipment, cars…all the aircraft, military, civilian would be down." In this episode, space policy expert Greg Autry explains what a Chinese EMP attack on Taiwan could look like, and why it may be the weapon of choice for the Chinese regime. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0813GregAutry

"Space is the ultimate high ground…You might have noticed that China just had another landing near the South Pole of the moon. …NASA just canceled VIPER, one of our next major moon rover programs. So we're not looking good in this race right now, even though we have the lead." What would the end of American superiority in space mean for America and its allies? We discuss with Professor Greg Autry, Director of Space Leadership, Policy and Business at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and co-author of “Red Moon Rising.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0813GregAutry

How do shrinking birthrates impact a population? "When I was a kid, people used to write about it: They would say, in Japan, nobody has cousins. And in Japan, nobody has brothers and sisters…That is today the global reality. It's where everybody's going. They will have fewer and smaller kinship networks. And so it's led some people to speculate about whether one of the reasons we see so much investment in political identity today, and, we'll say, larger identity politics in general, is because our own kinship identities are shrinking. We don't come from clans or tribes. We don't have extended families the way we used to. We don't have a dozen crazy aunts and uncles. And so there's some kind of human loss there that I think is difficult to calculate. It's a more atomized society." - Social scientist Catherine Pakaluk 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0810CatherinePakaluk

“During the Cold War, the KGB manufactured a bunch of falsehoods and sort-of introduced those falsehoods via willing helpers, such as left-leaning magazines and brands that were still respected…Nowadays, the Russian intelligence and also the Chinese intelligence - they know how this country works and they know how to destroy it. And, when we're talking about this kind of psychological warfare, we are incredibly vulnerable to it - again, because we don't have the critical thinking ability to judge what's true and what's not or what might not be true. If it's planted and if it's known by many to be the truth, we’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s got to be true,’ right? And the media doesn't help. Even well-meaning journalists in the mainstream media very often fall victim to these falsehoods that are being spread.” - Former KGB agent Jack Barsky 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0723JackBarsky

"This is the ace under the sleeve of Nicolas Maduro…What Maduro has been building, at least for the last year, if not for the last two, three years, is military capabilities to invade his neighbor Guyana. Those military capabilities, [which are] very specific, are provided mostly by Russia, China and Iran. …Guyana has the largest offshore oil discovery in the 21st century. 11 billion barrels of oil were discovered in 2015. And in 2019, 2020, some of that oil started coming to market. So what does Maduro want to do? He wants to push the maritime border to capitalize on that oil discovery." - Joseph Humire, Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0803JosephHumire

"Women are really highly fertile in their late teens, their early 20s…By the mid 20s, it's starting to decline, and then into the 30s. Most people are vastly unaware of that." Social scientist Catherine Pakaluk has been researching the decline in birthrates and the various factors contributing to it. What is the impact of declining birthrates across the developed world? Is the trend reversible? 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0810CatherinePakaluk

"You cannot have economic growth without population growth…We don't know what the economy will look like with shrinking population." Why are people in developed economies having fewer and fewer children? What will the impact be? And is this trend reversible? Social scientist and researcher Catherine Pakaluk decided to interview dozens of college-educated women who chose to have five or more children to find out what motivated their choice. She’s the author of “Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0810CatherinePakaluk

"We became this forever-import country and this never-export country. I think the only thing we export anymore is dollars and debt." Deep dive tonight with Jeffrey Tucker on sorting through economic data to get at the truth.👇 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0808JeffreyTucker