{"id":30769,"date":"2026-05-27T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/?p=30769"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:21:50","slug":"kol-ep-388-economists-have-to-keep-teaching-the-same-lessons-guests-james-harrigan-antony-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/kol-ep-388-economists-have-to-keep-teaching-the-same-lessons-guests-james-harrigan-antony-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists Have to Keep Teaching the Same Lessons | Guests: James Harrigan & Antony Davies | Ep 388"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the economy, stupid! Rising prices, stagnant wages, and poor job growth affect everyone, and everyone is quick to notice when the economy isn\u2019t performing well. But these are not insoluble problems, and in fact, economists have been shouting the solutions from the rooftops for decades, if only somebody would listen. Matt Kibbe is joined by James Harrigan and Antony Davies, hosts of the \u201cWords and Numbers<\/a>\u201d podcast, to bemoan the fact that every new generation forgets the economic lessons of the past. Like Sisyphus doomed to roll a stone uphill forever, it is the curious task of economists to keep explaining that you can\u2019t bring about prosperity through high taxes, restricted trade, deficit spending, and endless money printing. It\u2019s not all bad news, however, as \u201cWords and Numbers\u201d will now be distributed by Free the People, giving more people the opportunity to separate economic sense from nonsense!<\/p>\n

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He is also co-founder and partner at Fight the Power Productions, a video and strategic communications company. Kibbe is the host of BlazeTV\u2019s Kibbe on Liberty, a popular podcast that insists that you think for yourself. He was senior advisor for a Rand Paul Presidential Super PAC in 2016, and later co-founded AlternativePAC to promote libertarian values. In 2004 Kibbe founded FreedomWorks, a national grassroots advocacy organization, and served as President until his departure in 2015. Steve Forbes said: \u201cKibbe has been to FreedomWorks what Steve Jobs was to Apple.\u201d Newsweek pronounced Kibbe \u201cone of the masterminds\u201d of tea party politics. MSNBC\u2019s Keith Olbermann called Kibbe \u201cThe second worst person in the world.\u201d \u00a0 Dubbed \u201cthe scribe\u201d by the New York Daily News, Kibbe is the author of the #2 New York Times bestseller Don\u2019t Hurt People and Don\u2019t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto (HarperCollins 2014), and Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America (HarperCollins 2012). He coauthored Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (HarperCollins 2010). Kibbe has appeared frequently on national television, including FOX News, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS. Before launching FreedomWorks, Kibbe served as a congressional Chief of Staff and House Budget Committee Associate. He was also Budget Director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Senior Economist for the RNC under Lee Atwater. Kibbe did graduate work in economics at George Mason University and received his B.A. in economics from Grove City College. He lives in Washington, DC with his awesome wife Terry, and their objectivist cats, Ragnar and Rearden. Kibbe is also a fanatical DeadHead, drinker of craft beer and whisky, and collector of obscure books on Austrian economics.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mattkibbe","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mattkibbe","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/x.com\/mattkibbe","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/kibbeonliberty"],"url":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/author\/mkibbe\/"}]},"og_video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c7NeW6VSk0I","og_video_type":"text\/html","og_video_duration":"3299","og_video_width":"480","og_video_height":"270","ya_ovs_adult":"false","ya_ovs_upload_date":"2026-05-27T21:00:18+00:00","ya_ovs_allow_embed":"true"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30769"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=30769"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}