. ♪♪ mark: hello america i am mark levin, it's a great honor to have doctor thomas sowell on the programan i have followed my entire career actually as a teenager. you had an enormous influence on me and some other people. welcome we appreciate you being here, particularly in these times, first of all you have written a fabulous book, very relevant to what is going on today. "charter schools and their enemd their enemies". were going to spend some significant time but before we do i know that the people who watch this program are very curious on your take of events that are taking place, the way that the nation's direction what's going on in our inner cities and so forth what is your general take. >> i must say in regard to this i was no pessimistic enough thinking things that would degenerate to a point from where they are now, adult human beings talking about getting rid of the police, talking about reducing the number of police and resources put in police work at a time when murder rates have been skyrocketing more than what they were a year ago in 2019. i never dreamed we would come

-thomas sowell is a trained economist.isted. he is a photographer. he is america's greatest contemporary living philosopher. -i'm jason riley. i'm a journalist and author.

something thomas sowell introduced to me. i didn't think about.ownstream effect. 15-dollar minimum wage, downstream effect is automation, less enemployment, puts people back on the government dime which increases debt more. it's a terrible cycle. pretty much everything they're doing is, just not making any sense. charles: and of course we know that all of this is deficit spending. then when it is all done we'll come promotion for taxes. you know, i just haven't read anywhere, outside of moody's, i got to be honest i think mark zandi is more after democrat than economist. i'm not trying to diss sim, all the reports about higher taxes point to deleterious impact on our economy. should we brace for that soon? >> if you're asking me about their corporate tax increase, that doubles down on you know, decreasing the actual number of jobs out there. it also decreases the dividend. all the money flowing into the market, relative value of companies are going down because of taxes it worsens the potential for a bubble. they just can't add two plus two plus t

yemen's matted government who the rebels say they've taken control of a military camp one advancing on sowell west of merab but the yemeni army says it repelled toothy attacks both parties say the saudi led coalition has conducted asteroids in the area. syria says israeli jets have the struck near the capital damascus after flying over the occupied golan heights defenses intercepted most of the missiles according to the syrian army activists say israel has targeted iranian backed militias in recent weeks. former south african president jacob zuma is not attending an inquiry investigating corruption during his time in office the commission has been hearing allegations that the wealthy gupta family used its friendship with zuma to win government contracts and influence policy by the different groups of family deny the allegations those headlines witness is coming right up after 3. the health of humanity is at stake a global pandemic requires a global response. w.h.o. is the guardian of global health delivering lifesaving tools supplies and training to help the world's most found mobile people u

. ♪♪ mark: hello america i am mark levin, it's a great honor to have doctor thomas sowell on the program have followed my entire career actually as a teenager. you had an enormous influence on me and some other people. welcome we appreciate you being here, particularly in these times, first of all you have written a fabulous

mark: hello america i am mark levin, it's a great honor to have doctor thomas sowell on the program ager. you had an enormous influence on me and some other people. welcome we appreciate you being here, particularly in these times, first of all you have written a fabulous