Episode 48: Total Privacy Awareness


Episode 48: Total Privacy Awareness

Your host Richard Morrison is joined this week by returning guest co-hosts Jeremy Lott and Michelle Minton and not-so-secret special guest Ryan Radia. We begin with the top story of the week – the presidential election and resulting protests in Iran. We then move on to bad energy policy in Virginia, radio royalties for big music companies and the scandalous waste of bailout money. We finish with an interview with Ryan Radia on Internet privacy and some real estate-related Olympic News.

 
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Episode 47: Persian Powder Keg


Episode 47: Persian Powder Keg

Your host Richard Morrison welcomes back guest co-host Jeremy Lott and special guest Greg Conko for Episode 47. We start with the new Obama-Geithner plan for expanding regulation of financial markets, the protests over the disputed presidential election in Iran and the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation of telemarketing robocalls. We then move on to the “beer bikes” of Amsterdam and some potentially scandalous investment choices made by Sen. Dick Durban. Finally, we talk health care with CEI Senior Fellow Greg Conko, covering President Obama’s address to the American Medical Association and the recent Forbes article in which Greg and Dr. Henry I. Miller describe what an ObamaCare plan might actually look like (hint: it won’t be pretty).

 
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Episode 46: The Great Porn Wall of China


Episode 46: The Great Porn Wall of China

Your faithful host Richard Morrison welcomes back special guest co-hosts William Yeatman and Michelle Minton for Episode 46. We start with the investors that are getting worked over by the politically-distorted bankruptcy of Chrysler, the ascension of the Swedish Pirate Party to the European Parliament and the Great Porn Wall of China. We then move on to proof that beer is better for you than water, a sign that airline travel may get more expensive, and an example of how voters deal with corrupt politicians. Finally, we wind things up with some very educational Olympic News.

 
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Episode 45: Save the Beer Barns!


Episode 45: Save the Beer Barns!

Your host Richard Morrison welcomes back special guest co-host Jeremy Lott and technical producer Ryan Young for Episode 45. The program starts with the bankruptcy of General Motors, amending the California state constitution and Greg Conko’s opinions on the state of FDA reform. We then move on to Nancy Pelosi’s global warming comments in China, scantily clad women selling beer, electoral scandal in Connecticut and some very English Olympic News.

 
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Episode 44: Is Sotomayor the New Souter?


Episode 44: Is Sotomayor the New Souter?

Richard Morrison welcomes special guest co-hosts Jeremy Lott and William Yeatman back to LibertyWeek for Episode 44. We begin with breaking legal news as we assess President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor. We then move on to the details of the General Motors and Chrysler bankruptcies, corporate CEOs trying to get rich off of global warming and the new top man at NASA. We finish up with the expanding Parliamentary scandal in the UK, Microsoft preparing to battle Google on search and some family-friendly Olympic News.

 
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Episode 43: A House in Gross Disorder


Episode 43: A House in Gross Disorder

Host Richard Morrison and special guest co-host Jeremy Lott bid a bittersweet farewell to longtime co-host Cord Blomquist, who is departing CEI and LibertyWeek for a new job with the Mercatus Center. On the news front, we discuss pending “cap and trade” legislation for greenhouse gases, scandalous corruption charges in the British Parliament, and new hope for economic and political reform in India. We also return to Craigslist’s fight against state attorney general activism and some highly competitive Olympic News.

 
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