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…
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Episode 33: Drinking Our Way to Economic Health
by Ryan Young
March 09, 2009 @ 5:11 pm
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Episode 31: What in Dodd’s Name?
by Ryan Young
February 23, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
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…
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Episode 29: The Mother-in-Law of All Debts
by Ryan Young
February 09, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
Welcome back to LibertyWeek, where your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist are happy to slave away in front of hot mikes to bring you the best in news and views. After a brief celebration of twenty-five years of Yuri Andropov being dead,…
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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 22: It Sure Is Looking Christmasy
by Ryan Young
December 23, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
Season’s greetings and happy holidays, LibertyWeek listeners – it’s the Christmas Episode! Your festive hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist deliver up the best stories of the day with an Xmas twist. We take a look back at executive power in George Washington’s…
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Episode 15: Election Day Extravaganza
by Cord Blomquist
November 04, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
Join your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist this week as we take on election day madness, the tradition of Guy Fawkes Day, campaign sabotage, the ghost of the Fairness Doctrine, how the coming depression is actually a minor recession,…
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Episode 11: Wall Street Punching Bag
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October 07, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
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…
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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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Episode 8: Cheese for Dogs
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September 16, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
This week, your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist discuss the meltdown on Wall Street, Nancy Pelosi’s opposition to offshore drilling, the War on Bottled Water™ and a breakthrough for Paralympic athletes.
SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL GUEST: Radu Burnete (our Romanian intern) joins…
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