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...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/14/2024

This week we cover the death of ESG investing, next moves on regulatory reform, Wall Street enthusiasm for a new administration, and Saudi Arabia’s new...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/07/2024

This week we cover a new vision for the Securities and Exchange Commission, affordable housing in Hong Kong, and how Millennials are killing it financially....

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/31/2024

This week we cover whether Americans feel better off than they were four years ago, why we have more billion-dollar natural disasters than we used...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/17/2024

This week we cover a new ranking of state governors, reforms to emergency powers, new research on working from home, misguided mining policy, and a...

• By: Chris Koopman, Richard Morrison
• 10/10/2024

This week we cover record-high budget deficits, green trade wars, and what U.S. adults are watching on TikTok. Our interview is with Abundance Institute CEO...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/26/2024

This week we cover entrepreneurship in Africa, a lawsuit over affordable luxury handbags, and European deforestation rules. Our interview this week is with Nick Morgan,...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/12/2024

This week we cover weaponized financial regulation, poverty policy beyond handouts, and Italy’s call to slow down the electric vehicle revolution. Our interview this week...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/05/2024

This week we cover social media censorship, automation at U.S. ports, and the property market crash in China. Our interview this week is with Geoffrey...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/29/2024

This week we cover the new book “What Went Wrong with Capitalism?,” the problem with price controls, Gen Z employees calling in sick, and an...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/22/2024

This week we report from the State Policy Network’s annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona and some of the great reform proposals being put forward by...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/15/2024

This week we cover corporations playing politics, Florida’s ban on lab-grown meat, and a tale of two high-speed rail projects. Our interview this week is...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/08/2024

This week we cover weaponization of banking rules, the massive cost of federal regulation, and politicized pension fund management. Our interview this week is with...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/01/2024

This week we cover California’s minimum wage for fast-food workers, overturning the FCC’s universal service fee, and pushing back on rude customers in Japan. Our...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/25/2024

This week we cover state-level regulatory reform, the opinions of Latino voters, Biden’s tax on stock buybacks, and another cool new podcast you should try....

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/18/2024

This week we cover Capital One buying Discover, solutions for high housing prices, China’s soft-power investment strategy, and President Biden’s call for national rent control....

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/11/2024

This week we cover the end of Chevron deference at the Supreme Court, the economic impact of future Trump tariffs, the Federal Trade Commission’s effort...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/03/2024

This week we cover how the SEC is going to spam investors with a deluge of low-quality disclosures, the Supreme Court’s decision on social media...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/27/2024

This week we cover the SEC’s new climate rule, the recent Supreme Court decision on income taxes, and why the Social Security Administration has finally...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/20/2024

This week we cover pork-barrel spending in Congress, reforming federal guidance documents, restaurants with minimum age requirements, and the most popular jobs for young workers....

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/13/2024

This week we cover regulatory burdens on small businesses, common-sense solutions to poverty, a legal challenge to the TikTok ban, and American attitudes on the...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/06/2024

This week we cover advances in dentistry, the slow pace of EV charger deployment, a victory for free speech at the Supreme Court, and China’s...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/30/2024

This week we cover the prospect of Inflation Reduction Act 2.0, rising consumer confidence, the perils of stress bragging, and a new collection of essays...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/23/2024

This week we cover attitudes toward social media companies, the guerilla war over ESG investing, YIMBY housing reforms in Austin, and new research on high-skilled...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/16/2024

This week we cover the war on prices, the great un-wokening of corporate America, the attack on credit card points and miles, and why maternal...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/09/2024

This week we cover bringing your parents to a job interview, the case against a universal basic income, and why we shouldn’t use science fiction...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/02/2024

This week we cover nuclear radiation, luxury handbags, rent control, net neutrality, and malaria. Our interview this week is with Will Rinehart, senior fellow at...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/25/2024

This week we cover the diamond jubilee of the Philadelphia Society, the cost of government regulation in the UK, the birth of the Abundance Institute,...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/18/2024

This week we cover venture capitalists fighting red tape, challenges to electric vehicle adoption, Americans sleeping on the job, a possible vaccine for chlamydia, and...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/11/2024

This week we cover Gen Z job satisfaction, dumb biotech policy in the European Union, and figuring out how little the average American knows about...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/04/2024

This week we cover how honeybees came back from colony collapse disorder, why you shouldn’t believe the government’s nutrition advice, and surprising new research on...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/28/2024

This week we cover how to rebuild after the Baltimore bridge collapse, legal challenges to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new climate disclosure rule, and...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/21/2024

This week we cover the future of AI and employment, why we shouldn’t trust Chinese economic statistics, and how the Biden administration is sticking its...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/14/2024

This week we cover the Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial new rule on climate change, federal science policy and indigenous knowledge, and California’s curious Panera...

• By: Iain Murray, Richard Morrison
• 03/07/2024

This week we cover fake environmentalism and the need to build, a look at policymaking inside the National People’s Congress in China, the new normal...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/29/2024

This week we cover an environmental conference in Miami, allegedly underfunded government schools, Google’s AI diversity debacle, and new data on how Americans are using...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/22/2024

This week we cover the future of environmental policy, rare earth minerals in Wyoming, and what we can learn from the merger of Capital One...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/15/2024

This week we cover Biden’s attack on shrinkflation, barriers to workplace flexibility, and a motherlode of domestic lithium. Our interview this week is with Patrick...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/08/2024

This week we cover Elon Musk’s controversial pay package, protecting children online, and the Biden administration’s slamming the breaks on new natural gas projects. Our...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/01/2024

This week we cover elite opinion versus the average American, the popularity of vocational training, why Millennials are suddenly investing more like old people, and...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/25/2024

This week we cover an environmental culture war, foreign investment in U.S. manufacturing, corporate diversity efforts, and the call to return to the office for...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/18/2024

This week we cover the old-fashioned roots of ESG investing, the blocked merger of JetBlue and Spirit Airlines, and the surprising truth about worker satisfaction...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/11/2024

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• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/04/2024

This week we cover slow-moving infrastructure projects, the impact of the conservative boycott of Bud Light, good and bad news on nuclear power, and return-to-the-office...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/28/2023

This week we cover the legislative record of House of Representatives in 2023, the proliferation of conferences about ESG investing, the sketchy status of the...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/14/2023

This week we cover people who fetishize old homes, the big AI risk no one’s talking about, how environmentalist activists are losing the climate class...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/07/2023

This week we cover the housing abundance agenda, antitrust concerns about corporate climate alliances, the future of global nuclear power capacity, and the Supreme Court’s...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/30/2023

This week we cover the political path toward abundance, the need for permitting reform beyond the National Environmental Policy Act, the Biden administration’s continuing assault...