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December 29, 2011: A Record Year for Regulation

December 29, 2011: A Record Year for Regulation

Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews talks about why 2011 was a record year for both new regulations and their cost. He also talks about his efforts to make the opaque regulatory state more transparent. Besides his annual “Ten Thousand Commandments”…

 
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December 8, 2011: House Passes the REINS Act

December 8, 2011: House Passes the REINS Act

The REINS Act would require Congress to vote on all economically significant regulations — rules that cost at least $100 million per year. The House passed the bill yesterday, and now it moves on to the Senate. Vice President for…

 
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Episode 72: Champagne Wishes and Climate Change Dreams

Episode 72: Champagne Wishes and Climate Change Dreams

Your host Richard Morrison teams up with collaborators Jeremy Lott and William Yeatman to bring you episode 72. We begin with UN climate hypocrisy in Copenhagen, presidential arm-twisting on health care and a cloudy look at government transparency. We conclude with the end of the tobacco…

 
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Episode 54: Read My Lips

Episode 54: Read My Lips

Your host Richard Morrison welcomes back returning guest co-hosts Michelle Minton and Jeremy Lott for Episode 54. We start with ominous hints of new taxes, California state employees making strike threats and the possible antitrust implications of the Microhoo partnership. We continue with a double-dipping…

 
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Episode 38: Pirate Warriors on Deck

Episode 38: Pirate Warriors on Deck

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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