Henry Bingaman - Freedom Through Freelancing
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Save Standard Time — Ditch Daylight Saving. Keep Standard.
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Jason Purcell on the Petrodollar System (part 3)
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Links: Tucker talks to Vlad about the role of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. They must have been listening to Purcell and O’Leary … O’Leary side project (Natural Order Podcast) breaks down the entire Tucker-Vlad interview… Possible definitions of “petrodollar” Revenues from petroleum exports. Dollars paid to oil-producing nations (petrodollar recycling). The currency of oil-producing nations usually fluctuates with the price of oil. E.g.s when the price of oil rises, the currency has more value. Vice-versa … when the price of oil falls, the...
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Remembering Buddy Holly and Friends
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Building wealth with ₿itcoin w/ Wesley Schlemmer (Bitcoin Bay)
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show January 27, 2024 Wesley Schlemmer – Bitcoin Bay Ep. 94 Wesley Schlemmer is a leading bitcoin (₿) evangelist and educator in the Tampa Bay region. One of the goals of his 501c3 organization — Bitcoin Bay — is to create a circular economy with bitcoin at the center of it all. We had Wesley on the show a few months back to talk about Wesley is a born-and-raised “Florida Man” who is working to Make America Florida. Links and topics mentioned: · ...
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Jason Purcell — The Petrodollar System (Part 2) - The Brian D. O'Leary Show Ep 93
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show December 5, 2023 Jason Purcell – The petrodollar system (Part 2) Ep. 93 Check us out on Substack: We welcome financial analyst Jason Purcell on the program for the second part in a series on the history of money and banking. We’re talking about the “petrodollar” once again. Jason is working on a book on the topic which includes a chapter about his theory of the “Petrodollar System.” You can find the first episode at our Substack page (and on all podcatchers): Jason will be on the show again soon to complete his analysis of the...
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Matthew Sercely - Agorist Tax Advisor
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show December 4, 2023 Matthew Sercely – Agorist Tax Advisor Ep. 92 Matthew Sercely has been a licensed attorney since 2009, and in 2020 he founded his own company to provide tax advice and planning for small businesses. He is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and side-hustlers by setting up their businesses to legally avoid as much tax as possible. While he exclusively works with those who have or are starting businesses, Matthew’s weekly newsletter offers general advice that anyone can use. When he's...
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The Petrodollar System (Part 1) w/ Jason Purcell
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show November 29, 2023 We welcome financial analyst Jason Purcell on the program for the first part of what we hope to be a series on the history of money and banking. Jason is working on a book on the topic which includes a chapter about his theory of the “Petrodollar System.” In this first part of our series, Jason gives us a background on the history leading up to the idea of the “petrodollar” phenomenon. Jason will be on the show again soon to complete his analysis of the petrodollar system. Once we complete the discussion, we’ll have a more robust show...
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Deep Thoughts - The Brian D. O'Leary Show - Ep 90
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The Brian D. O’Leary Show October 12, 2023 Try as I may, I still can’t shake not being a sports narrowcaster. The topic still comes up. At some point, I have to accept that it is part of who I am. An interesting thing came up today when I was listening to a podcast that my friend and Natural Order Podcast co-host Adam Haman was on. They mentioned a “Deep Thought” from Jack Handey. That got my wheels spinning, and thus this podcast. Links on topics mentioned are below… Brian O’Leary home page The O’Leary Letter Natural Order Podcast Brian O’Leary on 𝕏-Twitter ...
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On culture ... through the lens of Boston sports — The Brian D. O'Leary Show - Ep 89
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Guest: Hartmuth Pelger
December 1, 2022
Recently, we got a chance to sit down—virtually, of course, because I’m in California and he’s in Austria—with Hartmuth Pelger.
Hartmuth is a multilingual business executive with more than 25 years of experience managing a wide range of financial functions, from analysis to auditing.
Currently, he is a CFO in the e-Mobility sector.
Hartmuth lives in Austria but has also lived in 8 countries across three continents during his well-traveled life.
More importantly, Hartmuth started a parallel career in business coaching for high-performing individuals.
Tom Woods 100
One of the goals of this program is to get at least 100 people within the Tom Woods orbit on the podcast. “Tom’s orbit” is loosely defined, but in our case, Hartmuth is number 8. Ninety-two to go!
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Book mentioned
Tomorrow’s Gold: Asia’s age of discovery by Marc Faber
Influences
The Peter Schiff Show — where Tom Woods developed some of his radio/podcasting chops as a guest host for Peter.
The Mises Institute — The Mises Institute exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, and individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Founded in 1982 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe — an Austrian School economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, is Professor Emeritus of Economics at UNLV, Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute, founder and president of The Property and Freedom Society, former editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a lifetime member of the Royal Horticultural Society. He is married to economist Dr. A. Gulcin Imre Hoppe and resides with his wife in Istanbul.
Digging through the archives, we found the debut episode of the Tom Woods Show which Hartmuth mentions.
Ethnic Germans in Romania
The Wikipedia entry – Germans of Romania
A New York Times article (behind paywall), “Ethnic Germans in Romania Dwindle”
A fascinating 8+ minute video on The Exodus of Romania’s German-speaking Minority.
More Romanian history
Who was Nicolae Ceaușescu? The Wikipedia on Romania’s brutal and hated dictator.
Romania in World War II. The Wikipedia on the interesting history, from its near alliance with Nazi Germany to its ultimate flip to the Communist side.
The e-Mobility Sector
Hartmuth works in the off-highway sector within e-mobility. Some manufacturers are now focused on not only alternative fuels, but alternative ways to power machinery in general.
The specific application of a fully-electric drive concept is key to knowing if it will make economic sense. For instance, Hartmuth is working on mining and agricultural application, and an important aspect of a firm’s decision on whether to go fully-electric or not is the amount of pollution—or lack thereof—that will be produced on-site. Very interesting.
Armageddon (1998)
How much better would Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) and his roughneck pals have felt if they had Hartmuth’s e-mobility concept working for them on that comet? Assuming they had diesel-powered rigs, they need oxygen to burn the fuel. Does a comet have all that much oxygen available?
Since we love Bruce Willis—and most of his movies—we will eventually get to Die Hard later in the holiday season, but we did stumble upon one potential plot hole in the Christmas thriller…or was there ever one?
The sovereignty of Hong Kong
Wikipedia’s breakdown of what happened when the UK handed it over to the Red Chinese.
Dubai
Wikipedia. Sorry about all the Wikipedia links, but they are pretty good and if you are on your best internet behavior, you’ll learn a lot. However, we tend to go down the proverbial worm-hole of Wikipedia from time to time. That’s also fun on occasion, but tends to grind down available time in the day. Enjoy the links at your own risk.
Portuguese
At one point, I was interested in learning Portuguese, but I don’t know about that now. Somebody on YouTube claims they can teach you in 4 hours. Click at your own risk. I haven’t finished the video yet as I type this…
Hitchhiking
I was blown away when Hartmuth told me he hitchhiked in the western US and Canada in the 1990s. I grew up with the notion that hitchhiking was a serious no-no—both to try and get rides or to give rides to potential riders. The days of Me and Bobby McGee were more romantic and innocent, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOoMREvsV9E
There’s a guy I found on the web called Nomadic Matt and he tells you 14 Ways to Safely Hitchhike Across the United States. Read at your own speed or interest level. I’m just leaving it here…I have no interest in hitchhiking anywhere—I am still a child of my parents.
Place in Canada mentioned: Prince George, British Columbia
How do you contact Hartmuth?
You can either contact me or go to his LinkedIn: Hartmuth Pelger.
Austria
Final Wikipedia entry of today’s show notes: Austria.
Interesting story of mine somewhat related to Austria—I’ve never been to continental Europe—in my travels…
I was in Japan a few years back and at a coffee shop of sorts for a breakfast. The selection of non-Japanese foods in most places is often quite strange. The desire to imitate Europe or America is strong, but the implementation is often rather weak—save Kentucky Fried Chicken, but that’s a subject for an entire newsletter or podcast series on its own.
So, craving a typical American breakfast sandwich or something similar, I ordered a “Viennese Sausage.” Never had that before. Figured it was something even more exotic than regular sausage.
Wrong. It was a hot dog on a hot dog bun. Served with a packet of ketchup and a packet of mustard.
I was very confused and rather irritated until it dawned on me that I had seen Vienna Sausages in the store, usually canned and next to the SPAM. But also that I was eating a “wiener” and that…duh!...Vienna is the anglicized name for the Austrian capital city of Wien, thus wiener.
See also: frankfurter, hamburger, etc. for other such examples. I don’t think cheeseburger works in this scenario…but I could be mistaken.
Long story short: the coffee was good, the hot dog was nothing special and we had great Japanese food most of the other meals we sat down for. As my good friend once said, “When in Greece…”
Final book mentioned
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne. The aforementioned Tom Woods talks about this book in 2017. Highly recommended speech—about a half-hour.