Every time you use your debit card, the merchant has to pay a fee to the company that issued your card, usually about 1 percent of the purchase price. On October 1, that price will be capped by law to…
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September 29, 2011: The End of Free Debit Cards
by Ryan Young
September 29, 2011 @ 8:00 am
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Episode 63: Suing the Government into Honesty
by Ryan Young
October 05, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
Your host Richard Morrison welcomes guest co-host Jeremy Lott and Editorial Director Ivan Osorio for episode 63. We start with CEI’s FOIA fight with the U.S. Treasury, 7-Eleven’s attempt to give consumers a big gulp of government and the solution to a jobless recovery. We then…
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Episode 38: Pirate Warriors on Deck
by Ryan Young
April 13, 2009 @ 1:47 pm
Your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist are joined by special guest co-host Jeremy Lott for a very swashbuckling episode of LibertyWeek. We start with the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips from Somali pirates by the U.S. Navy and Special Forces, look into the…
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Episode 23: Madoff About You
by Ryan Young
December 30, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Happy New Year, LibertyWeek listeners. We celebrate a fresh start with a holiday health update and move quickly into the biggest story Scandal Watch has seen yet – Bernard Madoff’s (allegedly) massive $50 billion (alleged) investment fraud, including its impact on non-profit…
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Episode 20: The Future Is Cao?
by Cord Blomquist
December 09, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
Welcome back to LibertyWeek, where your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist bring you the best in news and views, always from the perspective of free markets and limited government. This week we start with praise for the new look and feel…
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Episode 9: Bailouts & Ballparks
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September 23, 2008 @ 5:13 pm
Cord Blomquist and guest-host William Yeatman tackle the subsidy for Yankee stadium, falling DSL prices, Sarah Palin’s hacked email, the no-drilling energy bill, and continue to track the saga of London 2012.
SPECIAL GUEST: John Berlau joins us to discuss the…
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