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Caller: “You were a Marxist and then became a conservative. What influenced you?” Sowell: “Working for the government.”

Caller: “You were a Marxist and then became a conservative. What influenced you?” Sowell: “Working for the government.”

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Thomas Sowell on the truth about the Great Depression: “There’s this narrative out there that the reason we had mass unemployment in the 1930s was because the market failed.” “It so happens that for the 12 months following the stock market crash, we never hit double digits of unemployment. Unemployment peaked at 9 percent two months after the crash and started going down.” “The unemployment rate was down to 6.3 percent when the federal government figured it had to intervene. And that’s when the downward movement reversed and we never saw 6.3 percent again for the next decade.” “It’s clear as crystal that the disaster came after federal intervention.”

Thomas Sowell on the truth about the Great Depression: “There’s this narrative out there that the reason we had mass unemployment in the 1930s was because the market failed.” “It so happens that for the 12 months following the stock market crash, we never hit double digits of unemployment. Unemployment peaked at 9 percent two months after the crash and started going down.” “The unemployment rate was down to 6.3 percent when the federal government figured it had to intervene. And that’s when the downward movement reversed and we never saw 6.3 percent again for the next decade.” “It’s clear as crystal that the disaster came after federal intervention.”

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433,250 views • 9 days ago

Thomas Sowell on engineers vs intellectuals: “The engineer is judged by the end product. If he builds a building that collapses, it doesn’t matter how brilliant his idea was—he’s ruined.” “Conversely, if an intellectual has an idea for rearranging society and that ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.”

Thomas Sowell on engineers vs intellectuals: “The engineer is judged by the end product. If he builds a building that collapses, it doesn’t matter how brilliant his idea was—he’s ruined.” “Conversely, if an intellectual has an idea for rearranging society and that ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.”

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405,209 views • 19 days ago

“Centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow did not destroy the black family, but one generation of the welfare state did.” — Thomas Sowell

“Centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow did not destroy the black family, but one generation of the welfare state did.” — Thomas Sowell

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205,913 views • 10 days ago

Thomas Sowell on Barack Obama: “I see him as someone who all his life has been associated with people who fundamentally don’t believe in the principles of this country.” “He always sought out the most radical people. He worked as a ‘community organizer.’ He doesn’t organize a community. He’s mobilizing all the resentments, organizing them in order to put them into battle to get what they want from other people.”

Thomas Sowell on Barack Obama: “I see him as someone who all his life has been associated with people who fundamentally don’t believe in the principles of this country.” “He always sought out the most radical people. He worked as a ‘community organizer.’ He doesn’t organize a community. He’s mobilizing all the resentments, organizing them in order to put them into battle to get what they want from other people.”

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1,063,210 views • 1 month ago

Thomas Sowell: “What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail.” “In so far as they fail, they receive the money. In so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.”

Thomas Sowell: “What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail.” “In so far as they fail, they receive the money. In so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.”

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23,946 views • 1 day ago

Thomas Sowell: “People often emphasize to me the enormous importance of leadership for any ethnic group to get ahead.” “My response is often: Name me three Japanese American leaders. No one has been able to do it.”

Thomas Sowell: “People often emphasize to me the enormous importance of leadership for any ethnic group to get ahead.” “My response is often: Name me three Japanese American leaders. No one has been able to do it.”

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139,055 views • 14 days ago

Thomas Sowell describes how he taught students: “I’d spend a great deal of time putting together a reading list, where I’d find the strongest argument on one side and then the best example of the opposing view.” “I didn’t test students on which side they believed. I tested them on whether they understood the arguments on both sides.”

Thomas Sowell describes how he taught students: “I’d spend a great deal of time putting together a reading list, where I’d find the strongest argument on one side and then the best example of the opposing view.” “I didn’t test students on which side they believed. I tested them on whether they understood the arguments on both sides.”

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66,867 views • 8 days ago

🚨 Thomas Sowell debunks the Great Depression’s most entrenched myth “There’s this narrative out there that the reason we had mass unemployment in the 1930s was because the market failed. It so happens that for the 12 months following the stock market crash, we never hit double digits of unemployment.” “Unemployment peaked at 9 percent two months after the crash and started going down. The unemployment rate was down to 6.3 percent when the federal government figured it had to intervene.” “And that’s when the downward movement reversed and we never saw 6.3 percent again for the next decade. It’s clear as crystal that the disaster came after federal intervention.”

🚨 Thomas Sowell debunks the Great Depression’s most entrenched myth “There’s this narrative out there that the reason we had mass unemployment in the 1930s was because the market failed. It so happens that for the 12 months following the stock market crash, we never hit double digits of unemployment.” “Unemployment peaked at 9 percent two months after the crash and started going down. The unemployment rate was down to 6.3 percent when the federal government figured it had to intervene.” “And that’s when the downward movement reversed and we never saw 6.3 percent again for the next decade. It’s clear as crystal that the disaster came after federal intervention.”

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405,059 views • 1 month ago

Thomas Sowell: “The Soviet Union was one of the most richly supplied countries with natural resources—and probably the most richly supplied.” “The irony is, one of the world’s great famines occurred in the Soviet Union ... Milton Friedman once said that if the government took over the Sahara Desert, there’d be a shortage of sand. The Soviet Union was just that way.”

Thomas Sowell: “The Soviet Union was one of the most richly supplied countries with natural resources—and probably the most richly supplied.” “The irony is, one of the world’s great famines occurred in the Soviet Union ... Milton Friedman once said that if the government took over the Sahara Desert, there’d be a shortage of sand. The Soviet Union was just that way.”

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85,263 views • 15 days ago

Thomas Sowell on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC): “As I listened to her, I was amazed that there seems to be no factual issue as far as she is concerned. She just pronounces things to be so and that’s the end of it.”

Thomas Sowell on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC): “As I listened to her, I was amazed that there seems to be no factual issue as far as she is concerned. She just pronounces things to be so and that’s the end of it.”

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313,290 views • 2 months ago

Thomas Sowell breaks down how most intellectuals think: “The best definition I’ve heard is from Hayek—he says an intellectual is a ‘secondhand dealer in ideas.’” “The vast majority of intellectuals don’t originate any ideas but they peddle ideas that other people have originated.” “That gives them a great deal of freedom because ideas and words are so malleable. Reality is not malleable. So they can believe in all sorts of things which have no realistic possibility and which have failed time and again in history.” “But because they know how to rephrase it and repackage it, they can just keep right on going.”

Thomas Sowell breaks down how most intellectuals think: “The best definition I’ve heard is from Hayek—he says an intellectual is a ‘secondhand dealer in ideas.’” “The vast majority of intellectuals don’t originate any ideas but they peddle ideas that other people have originated.” “That gives them a great deal of freedom because ideas and words are so malleable. Reality is not malleable. So they can believe in all sorts of things which have no realistic possibility and which have failed time and again in history.” “But because they know how to rephrase it and repackage it, they can just keep right on going.”

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57,486 views • 12 days ago

Thomas Sowell recalls how he fought off a school bully in Harlem: “Because I still had a southern accent, they would pick on me. I’d try to reason with them, and one day, when I ran out of reasons, I simply grabbed one kid’s head and smashed his face into a stonewall.”

Thomas Sowell recalls how he fought off a school bully in Harlem: “Because I still had a southern accent, they would pick on me. I’d try to reason with them, and one day, when I ran out of reasons, I simply grabbed one kid’s head and smashed his face into a stonewall.”

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52,595 views • 11 days ago

Thomas Sowell on why rent control is so damaging: “If rent control is severe, people either reduce the amount of housing they build or they stop building housing altogether.” “Political authorities are then confronted with a situation where there’s no new housing built and the old housing is wearing out—usually faster under rent control because the landlords don’t have to keep it up as much.” “So they step in and have some kind of modification. They say, ‘We are trying to protect the poor, so we won’t regulate luxury housing.’” “Of course, luxury housing and ordinary housing use much the same labor and the same materials. Therefore, all the materials that would have otherwise gone into making ordinary housing go into building luxury housing.”

Thomas Sowell on why rent control is so damaging: “If rent control is severe, people either reduce the amount of housing they build or they stop building housing altogether.” “Political authorities are then confronted with a situation where there’s no new housing built and the old housing is wearing out—usually faster under rent control because the landlords don’t have to keep it up as much.” “So they step in and have some kind of modification. They say, ‘We are trying to protect the poor, so we won’t regulate luxury housing.’” “Of course, luxury housing and ordinary housing use much the same labor and the same materials. Therefore, all the materials that would have otherwise gone into making ordinary housing go into building luxury housing.”

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30,267 views • 6 days ago

Thomas Sowell turns 96 this month. It’s time to award Sowell the Presidential Medal of Freedom—a fitting tribute to one of America’s greatest champions of freedom! 💪 The White House Donald J. Trump

Thomas Sowell turns 96 this month. It’s time to award Sowell the Presidential Medal of Freedom—a fitting tribute to one of America’s greatest champions of freedom! 💪 The White House Donald J. Trump

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21,806 views • 5 days ago

Thomas Sowell on engineers vs intellectuals: “The engineer is judged by the end product: if he builds a building that collapses, he’s ruined.” “Conversely, if an intellectual who is brilliant has an idea for rearranging society and it ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.”

Thomas Sowell on engineers vs intellectuals: “The engineer is judged by the end product: if he builds a building that collapses, he’s ruined.” “Conversely, if an intellectual who is brilliant has an idea for rearranging society and it ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.”

Thomas Sowell Daily

162,817 views • 2 months ago

“Dependence was seen as the key to holding the slaves down. It’s ironic that the same principle comes up in the welfare state 100 years later.” — Thomas Sowell

“Dependence was seen as the key to holding the slaves down. It’s ironic that the same principle comes up in the welfare state 100 years later.” — Thomas Sowell

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20,666 views • 7 days ago

Thomas Sowell on Barack Obama’s arrogance: “Here’s a man talking about five different industries in none of which he has the slightest experience.” “But because he has these degrees and people have told him how clever he is, he now thinks he can do this.”

Thomas Sowell on Barack Obama’s arrogance: “Here’s a man talking about five different industries in none of which he has the slightest experience.” “But because he has these degrees and people have told him how clever he is, he now thinks he can do this.”

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44,775 views • 28 days ago

“Anyone who studied history knows that for the first 150 years of this country the federal government did not intervene when the economy turned down. And all that time the downturns all corrected themselves.” — Thomas Sowell

“Anyone who studied history knows that for the first 150 years of this country the federal government did not intervene when the economy turned down. And all that time the downturns all corrected themselves.” — Thomas Sowell

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37,511 views • 25 days ago

Thomas Sowell: “Most academic intellectuals have no serious experience outside the academy.” “They have every incentive to believe that they’re brighter and know more than other people, because they’ve been told that all their lives.”

Thomas Sowell: “Most academic intellectuals have no serious experience outside the academy.” “They have every incentive to believe that they’re brighter and know more than other people, because they’ve been told that all their lives.”

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53,865 views • 1 month ago

Thomas Sowell on what’s wrong with education today: “Too many students are introduced to a certain vision of the world—for example, the capitalists are exploiting the workers.” “They just memorize that, and they talk about it as if it’s a known fact. There’s no developing in those students the ability to look at two different views and try to figure out which is correct.”

Thomas Sowell on what’s wrong with education today: “Too many students are introduced to a certain vision of the world—for example, the capitalists are exploiting the workers.” “They just memorize that, and they talk about it as if it’s a known fact. There’s no developing in those students the ability to look at two different views and try to figure out which is correct.”

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68,333 views • 1 month ago