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The Future of Financial Regulation with Thomas Hoenig
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Housing Abundance and Affordability with Luca Gattoni-Celli
This week we cover the advantages of a strong U.S. dollar, a dashboard for extreme weather events, and how to get infrastructure permitting moving again....
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The Future of Climate Science with Roger Pielke, Jr.
This week we cover unemployment data, stadium subsidies, and how Americans feel about the U.S. economy right now. Our interview is with climate scientist and...
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The Independence Index with Marc Wheat
This week we cover auto tariffs, electricity supply and demand, and the future of the trucking workforce. Our interview is with Marc Wheat, General Counsel...
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Founder’s Fire with Arthur Herman
This week we cover Social Security reform, what’s fueling state migration, and whether using prediction markets could impact your right to vote. This week Competitive...
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Questioning the AI Jobs Doomsday with Sean Higgins
This week we cover making home appliances great again, fighting price controls on healthcare, research on AI-fueled entrepreneurship, and a big new event on administrative...
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Ethical Consumers and Sustainable Capitalism with Kimberlee Josephson
This week we cover the latest inflations numbers, reforming $1 trillion worth of federal grantmaking, and a new book on the Declaration of Independence. Our...
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Educating for Liberty with Richard Lorenc
Our guest this week is Richard Lorenc, formerly of the Foundation for Economic Education and Iron Light and now President & CEO of Lexandria, a...
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George Washington, Entrepreneur with John Berlau
This week we cover terrible advice on poverty from the United Nations, reforming the way we regulate banks, and possible new policy directions at the...
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Free Speech and Financial Regulation with Peggy Little
This week we cover reforming the SEC’s stock trading database, banning AI exports, a climate lawsuit from Boulder, Colorado, and the latest episode of the...
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The Great Realignment with Stephen Davies
This week we cover U.S. companies getting hammered by tariffs, jobs that are surprisingly not getting replaced by AI, and some good news for people...
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Taxing the Rich with Jared Walczak
This week we cover America’s low-income churn, reforms to civil asset forfeiture, changes to vehicle emissions testing, a shout out to the new podcast Everyday...
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State Budgets and Bailouts with Thomas Savidge
This week we cover promising new classroom technology, increasing productivity (and avoiding layoffs) with AI, and the repeal of the SEC’s climate disclosure rule. Our...
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Fighting for Freedom with Kent Lassman
This week we cover bank privacy, SNAP benefits, a new study on tariffs, and a great new podcast about ideas and innovation. Our guest this...
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Fighting Medicaid Fraud with Parker Thayer
This week we cover higher inflation numbers, a strike on the Long Island Railroad, and new disability tech from Meta. Our guest this week is...
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Pension Politics with Jarrett Skorup
This week we cover more legal headaches for the Trump tariffs, keeping kids safe in an AI world, and California’s latest government boondoggle. Our guest...
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Highway Robbery with David Ditch
This week we cover how to make the moral case for capitalism, affordable housing via regulatory reform, and tracking the economic resilience of all 50...
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The Business of Federalism with Derek Kreifels
This week we cover childcare in the 50 states, employers and health coverage, the new Institute for Consumer Financial Choice at George Mason University, and...
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Revisiting Earth Day with Todd Myers
This week we cover the dwindling number of U.S. public companies, a pro-consumer merger in California, and how to end the housing affordability crisis. Our...
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How to Get What You Want with Josh Bandoch
This week we cover AI development in China, how large investors recycle homes, and the need for reform of the Clean Air Act. Our guest...
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Consumer-Regulated Energy with Travis Fisher
This week we cover economic growth in China, the political legacy of Viktor Orban in Hungary, and the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s “Liberation Day”...
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Kids, Big Tech, and the First Amendment with Jessica Melugin
This week we cover deficit spending, the burdens of Total Boomer Luxury Communism, and how to renounce the villainization of business. Our guest this week...
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Population and Abundance with Gale Pooley
This week we cover income inequality, myths about homelessness, First Amendment protections for AI, and reforming unfunded mandates. Our guest this week is Gale Pooley...
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Enduring Policy Principles with Richard Stern
This week we cover housing affordability, train safety, Paul Ehrlich (1932-2026), and Brian Doherty (1968-2026). Our guest this week is Richard Stern, Vice President of...
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Regulating Finance with James Copland
This week we cover the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, fighting fraud in broadband deployment, and cutting red tape to boost housing...
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Mississippi Renaissance with Douglas Carswell
This week we cover housing abundance, capitalism’s approval rating, audits of state finances, and the consumer nostalgia of Stranger Things. Our guest this week is...
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Big Tech, Europe, and Free Speech with Spence Purnell
This week we cover the Supreme Court’s recent decision on tariff powers, myths of the Great Recession, and fiduciary duty for asset managers in Oklahoma....
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The Impact of Trump’s Trade War with Alex Durante
This week we cover the sneaky federal cause of high housing prices, record outflows from ESG investment funds, and why YouTube and Instagram shouldn’t be...
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What’s Wrong with Congress with Kevin Kosar
This week we talk about Consumer-Regulated Electricity, the amazing falling U.S. poverty rate, and how smart TVs are keeping us all connected. Our guest this...
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Social Mobility in the 50 States with Justin Callais
This week we talk about satellite shot clocks at the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Reserve nominee Kevin Warsh’s digital-dollar beliefs, the burden of aluminum tariffs,...
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The Meaning of GDP with Brian Albrecht
This week we talk about the last 50 years of regulatory reform, a new study on climate adaptation, and reforms to Kentucky’s property tax system....
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Permitting for Speed with Grant Dever
This week we talk about making a living in podcasting, confronting our mounting national debt, and assessing President Trump’s new healthcare plan. Our guest this...
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Total Boomer Luxury Communism with Russ Greene
This week we talk about Trump’s 10% credit card interest proposal (and the dangers of populist economics in general), a new report on debanking from...
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FDR’s Political Legacy with David Beito
This week we talk about communist housing policy in New York City, the best economics and history books to read in 2026, a legal setback...
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China’s Economy and the U.S. with Derek Scissors
This week we talk about corporate real estate investing, woke pension funds, changing fuel economy rules, and questions about a possible Trump Federal Reserve nominee....
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Climate Policy Endangerment with Marlo Lewis, Jr.
This week we talk about tariff refunds, Affordable Care Act subsidies, Ryan Young’s Books of the Year for 2025, and how Santa landed on Trump’s...
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Consumer Finance and Privacy with James Erwin
This week we talk about the decline of electric vehicles, liberation for home appliances, the failure of tariffs to deliver new jobs, and the rise...
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The Business of America with Neil Bradley
This week we talk about the economic impact of net-zero policies in blue states and Europe, top targets for environmental policy reform in 2026, a...
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Balancing the Budget with Kurt Couchman
This week we talk about our 150th episode anniversary party, the documentary "Dear Mr. President: The Letters of Julia Sand," the new $140,000-a-year poverty level,...
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Sesquicentennial Celebration
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...
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Charting Tariff Madness with Joey Politano
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...
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Truth, Lies, and Economics with Jeremy Horpedahl
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...
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Our Nuclear Tomorrow with Craig Piercy
This week we talk about administrative law judges, AI innovation saving lives, environmental regulation creating more wildfires, and more research on the fight against corporate...
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Obamacare Problems with Jeremy Nighohossian
This week we talk about the unintended consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, decarbonization of economic growth, and resources for reporting government corruption at...
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Energy Diversity and Abundance with Stephen Perkins
This week we talk about the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, why we don’t need a government agency for...
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Celebrating Human Achievement with Ed Hudgins
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...
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Reforming Social Security with Romina Boccia
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...
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Emergent Abundance with Alex Trembath
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...
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Empowering Patients with Vance Ginn
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...
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Tariffs and Economic Freedom with Matt Mitchell
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....