Stephen Moore

I mean, this is a price you see twice a block when you're driving down the street.

And every time you fill up your tank, you recognize how much more it costs.

A former UVF man who Mark Hannibal Haddock tried to stab to death has claimed in an interview that he's a former member of the IRA.

Terry Fairfield, who now runs a bar in the UK, claims he was in both organisations and is adamant that nobody ever suggested a conflict of interest.

Today I'm talking to Stephen Moore about Fairfield, about his claims and about the spectre of Haddock's return to Balthast.

This is Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com.

I love it.

I mean, look, it's amazing.

Glenn, you and I have known each other a long time.

I arrived in Washington in the early 80s, believe it or not, so over 40 years ago.

I've become a swamp creature.

But when I first came to Washington, do you know what the Dow Jones was?

I'm not taking a guess.

Yeah, it was 1,000.

Now we're at 50,000.

So this has been one of the most spectacular, probably the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world.

It started with Reagan.

Reagan did the tax cuts, and we sweated the inflation out of the economy that we'd had under Nixon and Ford and Carter.

And we did the tax rate reductions.

We limited the size and scope and regulation of government.