by Ryan Young
July 20, 2009 @ 3:02 pm
Celebrate LibertyWeek’s one-year anniversary with your host Richard Morrison, returning guest co-host Jeremy Lott and distinguished special guest Timothy P. Carney. We start with the short-sighted lobbying of HMOs for more government control of health care, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo…

Episode 52: Tim Carney – Armed and Dangerous [25:13m]:
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by Ryan Young
July 13, 2009 @ 1:46 pm
Your host Richard Morrison brings you Episode 51, along with special guest co-host Jeremy Lott and Fellow in Regulatory Studies Ryan Young. We start with Judge Sotomayor in the Senate hot seat, a privacy threat from “smart” passports and why Rep. Dan…

Episode 51: Watch for Falling Rupees [28:30m]:
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by Ryan Young
July 06, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
We celebrate our golden anniversary with Episode 50 of LibertyWeek, brought to you by host Richard Morrison and special guest co-hosts Jeremy Lott and Michelle Minton. We start with plans for new enviro-cops in the UK, the latest bribery scandal out of Detroit, and…

Episode 50: Detroit Bribe City:
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by Ryan Young
June 29, 2009 @ 2:36 pm
Welcome to Episode 49, in which your host Richard Morrison is joined by recurring guest co-hosts Jeremy Lott and William Yeatman and special guest interviewee Hans Bader. We begin with discussion of the abominable Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, the scandal of suppressed science at the…

Episode 49: Censoring Science at the EPA [30:59m]:
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by Ryan Young
June 22, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
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…

Episode 48: Total Privacy Awareness [26:52m]:
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by Ryan Young
June 15, 2009 @ 1:41 pm
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…

Episode 47: Persian Powder Keg [35:02m]:
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by Ryan Young
June 08, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
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…

Episode 46: The Great Porn Wall of China:
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by Ryan Young
June 01, 2009 @ 2:04 pm
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…

Episode 45: Save the Beer Barns! [30:24m]:
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by Ryan Young
May 26, 2009 @ 2:54 pm
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…

Episode 44: Is Sotomayor the New Souter? [28:08m]:
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by Ryan Young
May 18, 2009 @ 12:27 pm
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”…

Episode 43: A House in Gross Disorder [31:10m]:
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