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I have long admired The Ron Smith Show, which I believe is the most listened-to radio show in Baltimore. I will be on the show tomorrow starting at 4:05-15 Eastern Time. You can find the live stream here (look top left). I find this a real honor, because unlike most radio talk show hosts, Ron Smith is a genuinely bright guy, and doesn’t care about wider popularity. Like me, he doesn’t care whether the broader society follows him or not.
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September 26th, 20084:49 pm at
Way to go, David! You hit a homerun on the Ron Smith Show.
September 26th, 20086:03 pm at
David, your tone today as is Ron’s was all doom and gloom. Yet the very backdrop of this intervention of the finacial crisis remains to provide fodder to the wealthy for driving anew economic engine that satisfy’s the appetite of greed. Regardless I believe if the package included an incentive to those of us who have paid our mortgages and suffered the from the falling values due to the social engineering experiment more of us would have a buy into this entire process of funding the worst of the best!
September 28th, 20083:50 am at
David,
I listened to you on the Ron Smith show. You are one of Ron’s best guests by far. It is is very difficult for most CFA’s to explain technical concepts in layman’s terms, but you do it with ease. You and Ron have a good chemistry on the radio. I hope you return soon.