Podcast Episodes

• 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...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/23/2023

This week we cover Javier Milei’s election as president of Argentina, how much money it takes to be happy, Thanksgiving lessons about property rights, and...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/09/2023

This week we cover how states can reform higher education, ways that managers can make their employees happier at work, the plans consumers have for...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/02/2023

This week we talk about which state has the least-bad business taxes, how many Americans really love America, the continuing trouble with ESG investing, and...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/26/2023

This week we talk about the surprisingly low demand for free transit, the demographics of higher education, a primer on electrical grids, and a new...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/19/2023

This week we talk about income and tax migration, refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the problem with federal crop insurance, and the recent CEO Summit...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/05/2023

This week we talk about commuting via bicycle, regulatory reform legislation from Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), the new book on capitalism by historian Rainer Zitelmann,...

• By: Iain Murray, Richard Morrison
• 09/28/2023

This week we talk about recycled Legos, socially responsible pension funds, pessimistic views about politics, and a special immigration visa for microchip experts. Our interview...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/21/2023

This week we talk about banning plastic gift cards in California, the solution to Germany’s energy crisis, the political future for organized labor, and why...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/15/2023

This week we talk about the long history of the Lewis Powell memo of 1971, innovation in textile recycling, how Tokyo has kept housing prices...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/07/2023

This week we talk about the future of nuclear power, the possible end of remote work, and the complexities of regulating pork products across state...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/31/2023

This week we talk about where our doctors come from in the U.S., what current inflation numbers tell us about the health of our economy,...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/24/2023

This week we talk about job recruiters who lie to applicants, post-Covid reforms to the CDC, debunking socialist takes on Sweden, and the need for...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/17/2023

This week we talk about labor union history, demands for a 4-day work week, YIMBY policy wins, and Reason’s new “Why We Can’t Have Nice...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/10/2023

This week we talk about defending financial privacy, new polling on what Republican voters want, reactions to new employment data, and the declining popularity of...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 08/03/2023

This week we talk about banning incandescent light bulbs, mission creep at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, new nuclear capacity in Georgia, and a celebration...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/06/2023

This week we talk about the cost of thriving in America, the incredible expanding CHIPS Act, occupational licensing reform in New Hampshire, and celebrate Adam...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/15/2023

In episode 25, we talk about Gen Z and remote work, businesses moving between states, and inspiring evidence of human progress. Our interview this week...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/01/2023

In episode 23, we talk about conservatives defending the D.C. swamp, Andrew Stuttaford’s warning about green land grabs, a new Heartland Institute report on the...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/06/2023

In episode 15, we talk about the likelihood of blue state bailouts, issues with “everything bagel liberalism,” news of free enterprise scholarship at Alabama’s Troy...

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/16/2023

In episode 8, we talk about the cultural impact of Super Bowl ads, worries over “slack-filling” in food packages, politicized finance in Congress’ crosshairs,...

• By: Ryan Young, Richard Morrison
• 02/09/2023

Free the Economy is a podcast focused on how we all can become happier, healthier, and wealthier in a world with less government control.

In episode...