Podcast Episodes

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/20/2025

This week we celebrate the show’s sesquicentennial anniversary – that is, our 150th episode. We look back at the dozens of smart, funny, passionate, and...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/13/2025

This week we talk about changes in consumer credit, disappearing fast-food jobs in California, and six things the climate movement gets wrong about China. Our...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/06/2025

This week we talk about Social Security’s cost of living, conserving rare earth minerals, and why California keeps losing tech jobs. Our guest this week...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/09/2025

This week we talk about the need to build more infrastructure in the UK, an award for public finance leadership in Oklahoma, teaching students to...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/02/2025

This week we cover a new study on pharmaceutical tariffs, whether to expect a new Great Depression (via Phil Magness and Marc Wheat in National...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/25/2025

This week we cover the future of financial regulation, the end of the left vs. right distinction in politics, and how we all just dodged...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/18/2025

This week we cover potential changes to quarterly reporting for public companies, state-level AI regulations, spiking gas prices in California, and cosmetology licenses for sale...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/11/2025

This week we cover the latest jobs numbers, the emergent community of abundance fans, the limits to taxing billionaires, and eliminating an illegal federal agency....

• By: Kevin D. Williamson, Richard Morrison
• 09/04/2025

This week we cover the Trump tariffs being struck down, Biden’s competition order being vacated, and new research on housing affordability. Our interview this week...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/28/2025

This week we cover Ray Dalio’s Big Debt Cycle, scandal in climate finance, jobs destroyed by tariffs, why AI can’t replace free markets, and the...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/14/2025

This week we cover new inflation data, public attitudes about Social Security, and California’s self-inflicted energy crisis. Our interview this week is with Kevin Corinth,...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/07/2025

This week we cover controversy at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, myths of the auto industry, and a new SPAC from the Trump kids. Our...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/31/2025

This week we cover the Trump administration’s AI action plan, Detroit’s unlikely rebirth, pushing back on EU tech regulation, and why the golden age of...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/24/2025

This week we cover Dodd-Frank’s 15th anniversary, a victory for homeowners in Oregon, and an alternative to socialist grocery stores in New York City. Our...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/17/2025

This week we cover Trump tariffs, Obama’s endorsement of housing abundance, and why the green energy industry needs more market discipline. Our interview this week...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/10/2025

This week’s episode features Corbin Barthold, Internet Policy Counsel at TechFreedom and host of the Tech Policy Podcast. This is a special dual episode of...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/03/2025

This week we cover housing abundance in California, the meaning of a market economy, union privileges for government workers, and the decline in heart attack...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/26/2025

This week we cover the failure of postal banking, Trump (again) pausing the TikTok ban, and the political crack-up between unions and the Democratic party....

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/19/2025

This week we cover FreedomFest 2025, the FDA’s block on effective sunblock, good news about critical minerals, and Walmart’s expanding drone fleet. Our interview this...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/12/2025

This week we cover reforms to the Endangered Species Act, attacks on U.S. tech firms, nuclear power innovation, and an exciting new book on environmental,...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/05/2025

This week we cover donor privacy, the DOGE legacy, and the impact of import taxes on the auto industry. Our interview this week is...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/29/2025

This week we cover new research on trade and tariffs, how to understand market forces, and good news for coral reefs. Our interview this week...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/22/2025

This week we cover Jamie Dimon on tariff jitters, the Tax Foundation on the One Big Beautiful Bill, Jesse Walker on Biden cheapfake accusations, and...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/15/2025

This week we cover farm tariffs, the decline in green investing, and the effort to stop state governments from regulating AI. Our interview this week...

• By: Destry Edwards, Richard Morrison
• 05/08/2025

This week we cover the economic slowdown from tariffs, more accountability for independent agencies in the federal government, and riding the rails with the Department...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/01/2025

This week we cover workplace injuries, MAGA antitrust in theory and practice, portable benefits for gig workers, and the new book Crushing Capitalism: How Populist...

• By: Richard Morrison, Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/24/2025

This week we cover the political roots of totalitarianism, why we should put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out to pasture, the World Bank’s pivot...

• By: Ryan Young, Richard Morrison
• 04/17/2025

This week we cover teaching with AI, clearing the way for new nuclear development, and eliminating soda and candy from government food aid programs. Our...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/10/2025

This week we cover smartphones for kids, insomnia and anxiety in pre-industrial times, and a blueprint for modernizing the Environmental Protection Agency. Our interview this...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/03/2025

This week we cover Republicans for the Green New Deal, diminishing returns from industrial policy in China, and the bottleneck on nuclear development in the...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/27/2025

This week we cover America’s founding principles, the Cato Institute’s recommendations for reforming financial regulation, why Republicans shouldn’t be busting the SALT cap, and declining...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/20/2025

This week we cover retirement investing, pivoting to India, housing on federal land, and priorities for slashing federal spending. Our interview this week is with...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/13/2025

This week we cover Trump tariffs, the death of the climate hawks, and California’s experiment with fast food wages. Our interview this week is with...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/06/2025

This week we cover executive branch powers at the Supreme Court, BP’s pivot back to being an oil and gas company, and the trials and...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/27/2025

This week we cover poverty in Illinois, J.D. Vance on AI, the future of the Jones Act and the limits of the president’s impoundment powers....

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/20/2025

This week we cover public confidence in the economy, California’s electric vehicle mandate, the prospect of a sovereign wealth fund for the U.S., and what...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/13/2025

This week we cover DEI mandates, financial surveillance at the Securities and Exchange Commission, medical fraud among Alzheimer's researchers, and why Congress should defund green...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/06/2025

Our interview this week is with OJ Oleka, CEO of the State Financial Officers Foundation. We’ll talk about how the new administration will affect state...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/23/2025

This week we cover Trump’s executive orders, the demographics of the 119th Congress, our nation’s narrowing fiscal space, reforms to ESG investing, and a new...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/16/2025

This week we cover the Los Angeles wildfires, reforms to high-skilled immigration, new leadership at the Department of Energy, legal peril for ESG investing, and...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/09/2025

This week we cover fake endangered species, Pennsylvania’s climate policy showdown, a robust defense of property rights in New York, and Biden’s lame-duck attack on...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/19/2024

This week we cover weaponization of financial regulation, the Kroger-Albertsons merger, and a spirited defense of ultra-processed foods. Our interview this week is with Mark...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/12/2024

This week we cover new climate disclosure rules for public companies, the case against price controls on credit card networks, and why tariffs can’t pay...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/05/2024

This week we cover new leadership at the SEC, China’s ban on critical mineral exports, conservative fiscal reform ideas, and the health toll of not...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/28/2024

This week we cover the DOGE effort to reform government spending, survey results about transportation choices, and a sad loss for the liberty movement. Our...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/21/2024

This week we cover student loans, revenue from tariffs, democracy in Hong Kong, and the impact of podcasts on the 2024 election. Our interview is...