America is approaching its 250th birthday, and that should mean more than fireworks, speeches, and nostalgia.

It should make us ask a harder question: Do we still understand what made the American experiment different?

The United States did not become prosperous because government officials directed the economy from Washington. It became exceptional because our institutions protected liberty, property, voluntary exchange, civil society, religious freedom, and the rule of law. Those principles gave free people room to work, build, trade, worship, raise families, and solve problems in ways no central planner could design.

That is why I enjoyed this conversation with Samuel Gregg, President of the American Institute for Economic Research. Sam is one of the leading voices connecting economics, history, political philosophy, and the moral foundations of free societies. He previously joined me on Episode 17 of the Let People Prosper Show to discuss free markets, culture, and the future of economic freedom.

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America is preparing to celebrate 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. But the best way to honor the Founders is not just to celebrate the past. It is to preserve the principles that made liberty and prosperity possible.

In this episode of This Week’s Economy, I discuss four American values that built the nation: strong property rights, upward mobility, innovation, and freedom of speech.

These principles are still being tested today through property taxes, rising costs, regulatory barriers, antitrust debates, AI policy, and threats to free expression.

The lesson is clear: America prospers when we trust free people more than centralized power.

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Parents are tired of being told to sit down, be quiet, and trust the system. They saw what happened during school shutdowns. They saw what their kids were being taught. They saw learning loss, political agendas, falling standards, and too many excuses from education bureaucracies.

And parents started asking a basic question: Why should children be trapped in schools that do not serve them?

That is why I enjoyed this conversation with Dr. Corey DeAngelis, one of the nation’s leading voices for school choice and parental rights. Corey is the author of The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools and has been one of the most effective advocates for letting education dollars follow students, not systems.

He previously joined me on the Let People Prosper Show to discuss the parent revolution and school choice. This follow-up matters because the school choice movement has not slowed down. It is accelerating.

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