Free the Economy podcast: Energy diversity and abundance with Stephen Perkins
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In this week’s episode we talk about the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, why we don’t need a government agency for jobs data, how market trade builds social capital, and a new article on the managerial tyranny of Boomer environmentalism. Our interview this week is with Stephen Perkins, Chief Operating Officer of the American Conservation Coalition. We talk about oil and gas, wind and solar, permitting and zoning, transmission lines, and the future of US energy abundance. You can also watch the video version of our conversation here.
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Join us next week when our interview will be with Jeremy Nighohossian, a senior fellow and economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute focusing on health care policy. We’ll talk about the failures of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) and how policymakers can create a better future for health care in the United States.