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The Search for Critical Minerals with Seaver Wang
This week we cover the latest employment data, a new award for academic courage, free speech versus native land acknowledgements, and polling on data center popularity. Our interview is with Seaver Wang, Director of the Climate and Energy program at the Breakthrough Institute. We’ll talk about rare ...
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Maximum New York with Daniel Golliher
This week we cover climate collusion between California and Quebec, how luxurious college campuses are breeding socialists, and government regulation’s protection paradox. Our interview is...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Clear-But-False Ideas with Kevin Williamson
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...
Ideological Diversity on the Right with Peter Lipsett
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...
Welfare and Work with Kevin Corinth
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,...
Girlbossing the Discourse with Emma Camp
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...
Crushing Capitalism with Norbert Michel
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...
Costs and Benefits of Urban Transit with John Charles
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...
Corporate Responsibility and Taxpayer Protections with John Mozena
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...
AI Frontiers with Corbin Barthold
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...
Alcohol Labels and Warnings with David Clement
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...
Shareholders vs. Stakeholders with Jerry Bowyer
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....
The Reagan Legacy in the 21st Century with Dan Rothschild
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...
Drug Costs and Benefits with Sally Pipes
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,...
Tariffs and Corruption with Justin Callais
This week we cover donor privacy, the DOGE legacy, and the impact of import taxes on the auto industry. Our interview this week is...
Protecting Consumer Credit with Caroline Melear
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...
Next Steps for Nuclear with Deric Tilson
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...
Reforming Medicaid with Brian Blase
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...
Dear Mr. President with Destry Edwards
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...
Waste, Fraud, and Tax Hikes with Emily Ekins
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...
Reforming Washington’s 10,000 Commandments with Wayne Crews
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...
Economic Ideas for American Workers with Ryan Young
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...
Trade Myths (and Facts) with Prof. Michael Coon
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...
An Affordable and Reliable Future with Gabriella Hoffman
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...
Working for a Better Tomorrow with Vinnie Vernuccio
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...
Tariffs, Tax Cuts, and Trustees with Dominic Pino
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...
Broadcasting Liberty with Jeff Westling
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...
Striving for Shareholder Value with Matt Cole
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...
Alabama Does DOGE with Stephanie Smith
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....
Defend Yourself from Debanking with Nick Anthony
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...
Pivot or Die with Gary Shapiro
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...
Improving State Finances with OJ Oleka
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...
Trump vs. the Regulatory State with Susan Dudley
This week we cover how the feds are forcing your bank to spy on you, a new strategy for housing abundance, and a promising new...
Able Americans with Rachel Barkley
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...
Welfare Costs and Benefits with Scott Winship
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...
Draining the Swamp with Jim Bovard
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...
Changes in Financial Regulation and ESG with Hester Peirce
This week we cover how Americans feel about their jobs, the minerals we’ll need to build the future, and lingering inflation fears. Our interview this...
Mortgage Market Analysis with Mark Calabria
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...
Tax and Budget Showdown 2025 with Erica York
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...
The Value of Work with David Bahnsen
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...
Big Tech, Antitrust, and the Courts with Patrick Hedger
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...
Political Drinking with Jarrett Dieterle
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...
Debt and Taxes with Jack Salmon
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...
Nuclear Renaissance with Nick Loris
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....
Understanding the National Debt with Thomas Savidge
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...
Freedom to Farm with Bill Wirtz
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...
Removing Barriers to Abundance with Chris Koopman
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...
Reforming Red Tape in the States with James Broughel
This week we cover striking dock workers at U.S. ports, free-market innovation in healthcare, and the changing pattern of federal transfer payments. Our interview this...
How to Sue the SEC with Nick Morgan
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,...
Economic Mobility in the 50 States with Gonzalo Schwartz
This week we cover poll results on corporate social responsibility, the plight of California landlords, hard times for cable TV, and the democratic deficit of...
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things with Eric Boehm
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...