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Kate Wand<\/strong><\/a> made a great video reading my American Institute for Economic Research<\/span><\/a> article on “Defining Freedom Down<\/strong><\/a>” with the backdrop of the recent G-7 meeting of Political Puppeteers, including speech outtakes. The article sounds a lot better with her voice. Instead of \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d further empowering reckless rulers, we need to \u201cBuild Back Freer.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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Kate Wand made a great video reading my American Institute for Economic Research article on “Defining Freedom Down” with the backdrop of the recent G-7 meeting of Political Puppeteers, including speech outtakes. The article sounds a lot better with her voice. 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