This week, we address listener comments that the FBI crime data we reported in an earlier episode was flawed.

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Economist and author Bryan Caplan joins us to discuss how higher education has become a bastion of extreme leftist thought - so much so that professors that self-identify as Democrat outnumber professors that self-identify as Republican by 20-to-1.

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It was just a couple of decades ago that experts were wringing their hands over the coming population explosion that was going to kill us all. Now they are wringing their hands over the coming population crash that is going to kill us all.

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This week, we address listener questions from our earlier episode on the Fed. We also make incorrect predictions about whether the September cut in interest rates.

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The idea of an unrealized capital gains tax gains momentum every election season of late. This week, we take a look at what it is and why even the middle class should be very afraid.

Foolishness of the Week: 07:34
Main episode: 11:12

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