Hey Breaking Points producers: Someone I would be really interested to hear you guys bring on to the show to weigh in on the "Abundance" hullabaloo is Chuck Marohn, the founder/president of Strong Towns. He's the author of "Escaping the Housing Trap," so he has a long history of writing/activism in this space. Here's a recent article that inspired this recommendation: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/5/5/america-should-sprawl-not-if-we-want-strong-towns
Strong Towns is an urbanist organization that advocates for solving some of the urban development crises that we have in the US through localizing development. On a personal level, I clock Mr. Marohn as sort of vaguely right/libertarian coded but Strong Towns as a movement is very locally focused, pretty agnostic about national politics, and so doesn't map well onto right/left binary. There's an interesting overlap with YIMBYism, but Mr. Marohn has tangled with YIMBYs in the past on the practical matters of the YIMBY viewpoint that I think would make him a good guest who fits into the populist viewpoint that Breaking Points represents.
I'm not actually sure he would agree to come on, but I do think he'd be interesting to hear on this topic. Thanks!
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Hi I am a day one premium subscriber and I love so much of the content that Breaking Points has created over the years. However, there are some weak spots in BP's coverage. For example, the investing and economics coverage was on the poor side initially but has come a long way towards improvement in the last year or so (I am a Registered Investment Advisor so I know the field). However, BP's coveage of crypto has been down right bad. One huge aspect about BP that everyone loves is that it typically shows both sides of a discussion. This has not been the case for crypto though. BP has bashed crypto numerous times and never spoken about the positive qualities it has (yes some of the bashing is justified but not all). Why not have someone on the show who can discuss crypto in a patient and intellectually honest manner, or host a debate on the subject? I can't believe BP had Jack Dorsey on the show but didn't ask him one question about crypto, considering that Jack literally runs a crypto ...
Two notes on MK Ultra:
First, the guest yesterday opens saying the CIA wanted to study brainwashing cuz Korean War POWs confessed to crimes they didn’t commit. But I’ve heard that part of it was all the soldiers who defected to China / N Korea https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_and_British_defectors_in_the_Korean_War
Second, mind control assassination sounded crank to me until I heard Lisa Pease explain her Robert Kennedy 1968 thesis, I think on Bri Joy Gray.
