Topic: Commerce Department

Joel Skousen argues that the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 was a strategic deception designed to gain Western aid and trade. He asserts that Western oil companies rebuilt Russia's energy infrastructure while technology was funneled to China through various backdoors. The segment specifically mentions a technology transfer agreement between Israel and China as a primary route for military tech leakage.

Joseph Farrell discusses the work of economist Edward Dewey, who was tasked by President Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression to study economic booms and busts. Dewey discovered that human economic activity follows long-wave cycles similar to biological patterns, leading to the creation of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles. Farrell suggests these findings provide a scientific basis for ancient astrological claims regarding aggregate prediction.