In this episode I discuss the serious threat to your privacy and constitutional protections inherent in the NSA's metadata collection program, and some of the false arguments used to defend it.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/metadata-or-more-san-bernardinos-1450646147
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/12/the-creep-of-government-surveillance
I also discuss the Bank of Japan's dangerous policy of printing money to purchase stocks. This is a dangerous new front in the ongoing debate about monetary policy.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bank-of-japan-lays-an-egg-1450652587
The core topic of today's show is a discussion of the false promise of the Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. Sanders is promising "real power" to the people but every program he has proposed involves empowering government, not the people.