Former Comptroller General of the U.S., Talks Financial Insolvency, Policy Solutions, and Politics

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I remember when David Walker served. Great guest. It’s perhaps unsurprising though that an economist by training and a CPA by training can have an hour long conversation about ‘sustainability’ and ‘deficit’ with only a passing and dismissive reference in the last minutes to ANYTHING resource or environmental related. Extreme weather is here, NOW, destroying infrastructure, physical assets, agricultural production, reducing livable land, and so on. Emissions to date mean extreme weather and destruction WILL increase even if emissions stopped now. Which they won’t. Even these 2 thoughtful and rational men aren’t worried about deficit resource consumption. But lands scoured bare and barren produce few returns. I’ve used ESP software for 10 years to guide my economic planning and will continue to do so. Nevertheless modern economics based on unsustainable growth is just another form of magical thinking. Even if their economic proposals were in place tomorrow, there isn’t any reason to think they would delay or reduce impacts like yesterday’s hurricane and tornadoes in Texas.