Oren Cass

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · The Wealth of Wall Street with Oren Cass · 11 Feb 2026 podcast

And so it's really in a lot of ways after the Cold War is won that things get out of control, that you start just saying, well, we're just going to keep cutting taxes no matter what.

I mean, Reagan raised taxes five times when his initial reform didn't generate the revenue he wanted.

Reagan was a protectionist.

Reagan slapped all sorts of tariffs and stuff on the Japanese.

After the Cold War is won—

this coalition sort of just keeps going.

So you get the economic view that, no, no, no, it really is just the market is the end unto itself.

I use the term market fundamentalism, which people think like, yeah, sure, it's a little derogatory.

It doesn't sound great.

But it's also a descriptive term.

I mean, what is a fundamentalism?

It is a sort of overly simplistic attempt to impose a very rigid set of beliefs, often in a way that completely misinterprets the original texts.

But that concentrates – Are you sure you're not a lefty?

Well, you're going to get me in trouble with this, John.

So maybe we'll do a quick five-minute interview where I give you some of my more conservative views.

That's what we're going to need later.

But, you know, fundamentalist in the sense of sort of not only just reinterpreting texts, very rigid view, but that is specifically designed to give all of the authority to this narrow set of people who claim a special wisdom over what must be done.

And so this is what certainly right of center economics and to some extent I would say broadly economics became.

It was this sort of almost priesthood approach.

where if you didn't understand that financial deregulation and free trade were going to be great for the typical worker, that was just because you were not sophisticated enough.

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