Adam Thierer returns to the Let People Prosper Show to discuss one of America's biggest economic and policy questions: Will we build the infrastructure and preserve the freedom needed to lead the AI revolution?

Adam is Resident Senior Fellow for Technology and Innovation at the R Street Institute and a leading advocate of permissionless innovation.

We discuss data-center restrictions, energy abundance, AI and jobs, competition with China, age verification and online safety, and whether policymakers are repeating past technopanics by trying to regulate emerging technologies before understanding their potential.

The central lesson is simple: America’s greatest technological advantage is our freedom to experiment, invest, compete, fail, and try again.

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Happy Labor Day! Today we recognize and honor the contributions of American workers. But it’s also worth remembering why work itself matters. Work helps us provide for ourselves and our families. But it’s about more than a paycheck. Work provides dignity, purpose, opportunity, and the satisfaction of creating something valuable.

Public policy can either make that work more rewarding or make it harder for Americans to get ahead. In today’s episode of This Week’s Economy, we’ll look beyond the headline unemployment rate to examine what workers are really experiencing, how Washington’s $40 trillion debt and Federal Reserve policy affect prosperity, and why debates over data centers, social media, and even the “common good” ultimately come back to a fundamental question: Are we giving people more freedom to prosper or are we putting government in their way?

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This is a special and personal episode of the Let People Prosper Show. I’m joined by my wife, Emily Ginn, a licensed Master Social Worker, certified life coach, entrepreneur, and host of the IVF This podcast.

We discuss our journey through infertility and IVF, how those experiences shaped our family, and why Emily turned a difficult chapter of our lives into a way to help other women.

We also talk about entrepreneurship, balancing family and meaningful work, what policymakers misunderstand about IVF and patient choice, and a question at the heart of this show: What does it really mean to prosper?

Prosperity is about more than money. It’s about family, purpose, service, opportunity, and having the freedom to build a meaningful life.

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Scarcity is part of life. But free people have an extraordinary ability to overcome it.

In TWE 179, I explain how free-market capitalism creates abundance through prices, entrepreneurship, competition, innovation, and human ingenuity.

From Julian Simon's famous wager to housing, energy, healthcare, AI, and data centers, the lesson is similar: controlling prices doesn't create more supply.

Capitalism doesn't eliminate scarcity or guarantee that every price falls. Instead, it creates a discovery process that gives people incentives to solve problems and produce more.

The question policymakers should ask isn't simply, “How can government make this cheaper?”

It's “What's preventing people from producing more?”

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Tax cuts can strengthen incentives to work, save, invest, and build. But what happens when Washington cuts one tax while raising tariffs and continues spending beyond taxpayers’ means?

Dr. Adam Michel of the Cato Institute joins me to discuss why tax reform and spending restraint must go together. We examine tariffs, deficits, reconciliation, entitlement spending, business investment, and what a simpler, flatter, more pro-growth tax system could look like.

The goal isn't simply lower tax rates. It's reducing the overall burden the government places on Americans and creating an economy where people have greater freedom to prosper.

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Scarcity is natural, but abundance can be created.

In this episode, I explain why free-market capitalism has been so effective at turning scarce resources into greater prosperity. From Julian Simon’s famous wager to housing, energy, healthcare, AI, and data centers, the same economic lesson keeps appearing: prices communicate scarcity, entrepreneurs respond to opportunity, and competition encourages people to produce more.

Markets aren't perfect, and capitalism doesn't guarantee every price will fall. But government price controls and restrictions often manage scarcity rather than solve it.

The better question for policymakers is: What is preventing people from producing more?

Listen to learn why human ingenuity, economic freedom, and market signals remain some of our greatest tools for creating abundance. Get show notes and more at vanceginn.substack.com.

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The political left and right increasingly agree on one dangerous idea: Washington should direct more of the economy.

Industrial policy, tariffs, subsidies, and economic nationalism are being sold as ways to rebuild manufacturing, strengthen families, and make America more prosperous. But replacing market decisions with political direction does not create prosperity. It concentrates power, protects favored industries, and forces families and businesses to pay the bill.

That is the focus of my conversation with Dr. Paul Mueller, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Defending Freedom and Combatting Collectivism at the American Institute for Economic Research. Paul studies entrepreneurship, economic growth, monetary economics, and political economy. He also hosts AIER’s The Economist Next Door, which brings economic ideas to everyday Americans.

We discuss his AIER paper examining the New Right’s growing embrace of industrial policy, protectionism, and government-directed investment.

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More than 274,000 Texas families applied for Education Freedom Accounts this year. Parents are sending policymakers a clear message: they want more choices for their children.

In this episode, I explain how Education Savings Accounts empower families, why funding should follow students, how competition can improve education while encouraging greater efficiency, and why states should lead instead of Washington.

Educational freedom isn't about protecting one type of school. It's about giving every child the opportunity to succeed.

Listen now and read my new educational freedom policy guide at VanceGinn.com.