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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 policy on crypto and digital assets from the White House. Our interview this week is with Susan Dudley, founder and Senior Scholar at George Washington University’s Regulato...
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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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