CEI Policy Analyst Marc Scribner talks about his recent Forbes article, explaining how urban central planning made it harder to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina — and how well Houston, which has no zoning laws, coped with 260,000 Katrina evacuees.
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CEI Senior Fellow Greg Conko talks about the salmonella scare that has led to the recall of 550 million eggs 22 states. He believes that the hype is overblown, and that regulators should take an incentives-based approach to food safety issues.…
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…
Your host Richard Morrison welcomes returning guest co-host William Yeatman and special guest commenter Ryan Radia to the program for episode 61. We start with the FCC’s just-announced proposal for “net neutrality,” Treasury documents that reveal the true cost of cap-and-trade legislation and the…
Host Richard Morrison and co-host Jeremy Lott welcome special guests Lee Doren and Greg Conko to episode 60. We start with a recap of the 9/12 D.C. Tax Protest, look into union rules that hurt minority contractors and consider the alleged ethics violations of former California…
Welcome back to LibertyWeek, with your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist and technical producer (and this week’s special guest) Ryan Young. After bidding our friend Thor Halvorssen a very happy birthday, we get a fresh recap from Ryan Young on the events…
This week, host Cord Blomquist and co-host William Yeatman, along with guest commentator Ryan Young (Richard Morrison is off this week) take a whiff of the bank nationalizations floating through the air, and say they stink. Sen. Chris Dodd’s dodgy dealings in real estate come…
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…
Regular hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist welcome special guest commenter and friend of LibertyWeek William Yeatman back to the program.
We start out by re-capping the weekend’s entertainments, including films presented at the American Film Renaissance annual film festival here in Washington, D.C., the…
