2026-06-19
47 分钟The alternative would be a worldwide depression.
You know, the stupid people want to have a worldwide depression and they're stupid people.
So you can only go so far.
Drive somebody into the ground and a lot of bad things happen.
Number one, the Strait would never open because they don't like floating billion dollar ships up and down a Strait
when their rockets flying over them and mines all over the place.
So the Strait would never be open.
It wouldn't be open for a long time.
So we have We have a very hot stock market and we have started to be a very low oil price.
It's Wednesday, June 17, 2026,
and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining history, economics, and geopolitics.
I'm Bill Whelan.
I'm a distinguished policy fellow here at the Hoover Institution.
I'll be your moderator today.
If you've been watching this show, you already know that, and you also already know my next move,
which is to introduce the stars of our show, the Goodfellows as we call them.
So my honor to welcome back to our show, the historian Sir Neil Ferguson.
Economist John Cochran and former presidential national security advisor Lieutenant General HR McMaster,
Neil John and HR are all Hoover senior fellows.
So gentlemen, we're going to talk about peace in the Middle