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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 interview is with Patrick Hedger of NetChoice. We talk about legal troubles and disputes in the tech world from Google and the Department of Jus...
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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...
The Future of Streaming with Geoff Manne
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...
Searching for Digital Privacy with Jen Huddleston
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...
AI and the Future of Work with Patrick Carroll
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...
Crypto Politics with Eric Peterson
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...
Economic Trends and Subsidies with Andrew Stuttaford
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...
Paying for Mass Transit with Marc Scribner
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...
Dead Malls and Retail Nostalgia with Sal Amadeo
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....
Inflation and Bidenomics with Kurt Couchman
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....
The New Progress Movement with Ronald Bailey
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...
Taxocracy with Scott Hodge
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...
Protecting Taxpayers with Timothy Sandefur
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...
Up From Poverty with Josh Bandoch
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....
Enlightened Capitalism with Siri Terjesen
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...
Economic Facts and Vibes with Joey Politano
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...
Capitalism and the Historians with Phil Magness
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...
Giving for a Cause with Peter Lipsett
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...
Liberty Movement Jobs with Claire Kittle Dixon
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...
Technology and Politics with Corbin Barthold
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...
Technology and Society with Will Rinehart
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...
Frontier Economics with Kendall Cotton
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,...
Heroes of Progress with Alexander Hammond
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...
Censorship By Proxy with Jenin Younes
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...
Extremely Online with Brad Polumbo
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...
Gig Work with Liya Palagashvili
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...
Paying for Organs with Pete Jaworski
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...
Defending Election Integrity with Walter Olson
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...
Free Markets and the Common Good with Iain Murray
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...
Politically Homeless with John Tillman
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...
Federal Tech with Deb Collier
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...
Federalism Wins with Patrick Gleason
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...
Understanding AI with Matthew Mittelsteadt
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...
Moving the Rocks off the Lawn with Andrew Langer
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...
Sensory Pleasures and Public Health with Michelle Minton
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...
The Culture of Economic Freedom with Sam Gregg
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...
Protecting Your Property Rights with Betsy Sanz
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...
Avoiding a Central Bank Digital Currency with Nicholas Anthony
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...
(De-)Regulating Tech and AI with Adam Thierer
This week we cover social mobility in the 50 states, Elizabeth Warren’s revolving door with Wall Street, the latest power grab from the Food and...
Centers of Progress with Chelsea Follett
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...
Making College Pay with Preston Cooper
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...
Getting out of Control with Neil Chilson
This week we cover the American Nuclear Society’s Winter 2023 conference, the opportunities and pitfalls of online side-hustles, and the complex task of measuring incomes...
Personal Finance and YouTube with Spencer Johnson
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...
The Trouble with Big-Government Conservatives with Andre Béliveau
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...
Polling Capitalism with Karlyn Bowman
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...
Creating the Future with Jim Pethokoukis
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...
Going into Labor with Sean Higgins
This week we talk about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s legal fate, rising economic might in India, terrible federal policy on sugar, and how the...
Financial Regulation and ESG with Hester Peirce
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,...
Threats to Economic Freedom, Then and Now with Iain Murray
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...
Unemployment That Works
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...
Supreme Court Preview with Ashley Baker
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...
Freedom and Conservatism with Avik Roy
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...
Defend Your Points and Miles with Bryan Bashur
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,...
The ESG Agenda with Jack McPherrin
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...
Permitting Prosperity with Daren Bakst
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...
Federal Trade Commission Failures with Kimberlee Josephson
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...
Government Rules Behind a Paywall with Patrick McLaughlin
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...
Reforming the States with Carrie Conko
This week we talk about the Federal Trade Commission’s takeover of AI policy, shareholder lawsuits against “woke” corporations, a burst of new business starts across...
Ugh, Capitalism with Jeremiah Johnson
This week we talk about Democrat and Republican myths, corporate welfare in Ohio, scams in the carbon offset market, and how Gen Z workers are...
School Choice for Everyone with Ed Tarnowski
This week we talk about trends in self-employment, how rent control leads to more evictions, empty corporate gestures on indigenous lands, and how Americans are...
Teaching Capitalism with Allen Mendenhall
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...
Importing Talent with Connor O’Brien
In episode 27, we talk about the income tax case going to the Supreme Court, the death of ESG, community meetings and housing permits, and...
Online Trust with Taylor Barkley
In episode 26, we talk about a survey on work trends for finance bros, Delta’s questionable bid to become the first carbon neutral airline,...
Growth and Taxes with Alex Muresianu
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...
Immense Economic Costs with Scott Lincicome
In episode 24, we talk about central bank digital currencies, bankers backing off of ESG claims, avoiding the mistakes of public housing, and new research...
Capitalists of the World Unite! with Richard Salsman
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...
Transparency for Government, Privacy for People with Brian Hawkins
In episode 22, we talk discuss Tim Carney’s view on why big government is good for big business, Stone Washington on the troubling mission...
Letting People Prosper with Vance Ginn
In episode 21, we talk about Warren Buffet’s electric vehicle pessimism, sky-high school funding in New York City, worker job satisfaction numbers, and why we’re...
Freedom Is Intoxicating with Jacob Grier
In episode 20, we talk about public opinions of capitalism, eliminating Covid relief slush funds, rolling back parking mandates, partisan perceptions of Twitter, and the...
Grow for Tomorrow with Adam Millsap
In episode 19, we talk about judicial deference and the Supreme Court, Biden’s new mortgage rate policy, how Americans are thinking about their retirement finances,...
Smart Urbanism with Max Dubler
In episode 17, we talk about financial regulation and free speech, the tough year ahead for ESG investing, nostalgia for high tax rates, and new...
Political Fusionism with Stephanie Slade
In episode 18, we talk about Michael Strain’s and Dominic Pino’s arguments for economic optimism, Jessica Melugin’s defense of mergers and acquisitions, why the “pink...
Tar Heel Activism with Brooke Medina
In episode 16, we talk about political pessimism in popular polling, the return of the Malthusian environmentalists, the problem with Buy American policies in government...
Eco-Modernism and Abundance with Alex Trembath
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...
Conservative Economics with Dominic Pino
In episode 16, we talk corporate mega-mergers that turned out for the best, political meddling with the Federal Reserve’s inflation policy, “woke” language games and...
The Future of Online Privacy with Spencer Purnell
In episode 15, we talk about Silicon Valley Bank and political favoritism, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s climate agenda, the relationship of school funding to
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Consumer Welfare and Big Government with Patrick Hedger
In episode 14, we talk about the drama with Silicon Valley Bank and the proposal from Wayne Crews for an Abuse-of-Crisis Prevention Act, how to...
True Diversity and Economy Opportunity with Patrice Onwuka
In episode 13, we talk about a warning from Wayne Crews and The Wall Street Journal on the burden of over-regulation, the policy strings attached...
Legalize Jobs with Shoshana Weissmann
March 2, 2023 - Free the Economy is about how we all can become happier, healthier, and wealthier in a world with less government control....
Unconstitutional Taxation with Dan Greenberg
In episode 9, we talk about Adam Smith’s 300th birthday, new research on state government responses to Covid, the real problem behind baby formula bottlenecks,...
Crypto and ESG with Jennifer Schulp
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,...
Economics for Everybody with Ryan Young
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The Cultural Impact of YouTube with Javier Hernandez
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Corporate Purpose and ESG with Russ Greene
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Entrepreneurship and Equality with Alfredo Ortiz
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Washington’s 10,000 Commandments with Wayne Crews
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Defending the American Dream with Michael Strain
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Deregulating Abundance with Alec Stapp
Free the Economy is a new podcast from the Competitive Enterprise Institute focused on how we all can become happier, healthier, and wealthier in a...
