Michael Knowles
speaker
423 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Michael Knowles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I look forward to cigars with all of you.
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Afterward, good to smoke a Mayflower with Run Hot Fight, just as we're shilling stuff.
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I don't know, do I have anything else?
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I sell candles too.
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Okay, thank
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much for being here.
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That's Friendly Fire.
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We'll see you next time.
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Yeah, okay.
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The the Hungary one is a really good point because uh Hungary did have this concerted effort on family policy broadly.
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And we should make a distinction between family policy broadly and what the Trump administration is proposing here, because I I I think it's being misrepresented and it's much narrower than the broader debate, but I'm interested in the broader debate.
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When it comes to Hungary, yes, the Hungary policy failed to increase birth rates to replacement levels.
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And it failed spectacularly at that.
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However, we should remember there were some wins to the Hungarian family policy.
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It did increase in the short run, it increased the fertility rate by about 30%.
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Marriages doubled, divorce plummeted.
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There were big wins.
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Now, there were lots of other problems in Hungary, and there remain big problems in Hungary.
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Obviously, Orban was ousted out of office, strong headwinds from Brussels.
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I agree, though, that yes, trying to get people to have kids.
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