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July 14, 2011: The Incandescent Light Bulb Ban

July 14, 2011: The Incandescent Light Bulb Ban

Earlier this week, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt gave a speech at a conference on free enterprise. Energy Policy Analyst William Yeatman points out the irony of a career rent-seeker extolling free markets. GE spent $47 million in 2007 lobbying for an…

 
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Episode 13: Scandal Watch

This week hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist discuss environmental journalism, the Twitter revolution, maxing out the national debt clock, Iain Murray’s Fannie-fueled cyber-fight with Matt Yglesias, falling oil prices, a massage chair on loan to Sen. Ted Stevens, the dangers…

 
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Episode 1: Why So Sirius?

CEI’s Cord Blomquist and Richard Morrison discuss the XM-Sirius merger, the housing bailout, online privacy, the Viacom-YouTube dispute, and Eli Lehrer’s analysis of online gambling regulation.

 
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