Free the Economy podcast: Enduring policy principles with Richard Stern
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In this week’s episode we cover housing affordability, labor unions and train safety, the late Paul Ehrlich (1932-2026), and the late Brian Doherty (1968-2026). Our guest this week is Richard Stern, Vice President of the Plymouth Institute for Free Enterprise at Advancing American Freedom. We’ll talk about tariffs, the federal budget, tax policy, the national debt, and the North Star values that should guide economic policy. You can watch the video version of our conversation here or below.
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Join us next week when our guest will be Gale Pooley, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, co-winner (with Marian Tupy) of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s 2023 Julian L. Simon Memorial Award, and co-author (also with Marian Tupy) of the book Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet.