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Free The Economy
Competitive Enterprise Institute
155 episodes
5 days ago
This week we talk about corporate real estate investing, woke pension funds, changing fuel economy rules, and questions about a possible Trump Federal Reserve nominee. Our guest this week is Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute and China Beige Book. We’ll talk about manufacturing, Trump policy, President Xi’s plans for Taiwan, and whether we should give up the Bill of Rights to get more bridges and high-speed trains. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with ...
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This week we talk about corporate real estate investing, woke pension funds, changing fuel economy rules, and questions about a possible Trump Federal Reserve nominee. Our guest this week is Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute and China Beige Book. We’ll talk about manufacturing, Trump policy, President Xi’s plans for Taiwan, and whether we should give up the Bill of Rights to get more bridges and high-speed trains. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with ...
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Free The Economy
China’s Economy and the U.S. with Derek Scissors
This week we talk about corporate real estate investing, woke pension funds, changing fuel economy rules, and questions about a possible Trump Federal Reserve nominee. Our guest this week is Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute and China Beige Book. We’ll talk about manufacturing, Trump policy, President Xi’s plans for Taiwan, and whether we should give up the Bill of Rights to get more bridges and high-speed trains. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with ...
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5 days ago
53 minutes

Free The Economy
Climate Policy Endangerment with Marlo Lewis, Jr.
This week we talk about tariff refunds, Affordable Care Act subsidies, Ryan Young’s Books of the Year for 2025, and how Santa landed on Trump’s naughty list. Our guest this week is Marlo Lewis, Jr., senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. We talk about greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding,” climate models, human health, and the future of environmental policy. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with new episodes by fo...
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1 week ago
1 hour 6 minutes

Free The Economy
Consumer Finance and Privacy with James Erwin
This week we talk about the decline of electric vehicles, liberation for home appliances, the failure of tariffs to deliver new jobs, and the rise of climate realism. Our guest this week is James Erwin, Director of Innovation Policy at Americans for Tax Reform. We’ll talk about consumer finance, bank regulators, Elizabeth Warren’s view of the world, and when the government is allowed to violate your privacy. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with new episodes by followi...
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2 weeks ago
51 minutes

Free The Economy
The Business of America with Neil Bradley
This week we talk about the economic impact of net-zero policies in blue states and Europe, top targets for environmental policy reform in 2026, a new report on digital debanking from Congress, and why 38% of Stanford students are claiming to be disabled. Our guest this week is Neil Bradley, executive vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We’ll talk about taxes, regulation, free enterprise, innovation, and how we can create an economy where everyone can prosper. Free the Economy is ...
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3 weeks ago
51 minutes

Free The Economy
Balancing the Budget with Kurt Couchman
This week we talk about our 150th episode anniversary party, the documentary Dear Mr. President: The Letters of Julia Sand, the new $140,000-a-year poverty level, billionaire envy, and socialist deregulation of small businesses in New York City. Our guest this week is Kurt Couchman, senior fellow in fiscal policy at Americans for Prosperity and author of the excellent new book Fiscal Democracy in America: How a Balanced Budget Amendment Can Restore Sound Governance. We’ll talk about federal s...
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1 month ago
58 minutes

Free The Economy
Sesquicentennial Celebration
This week we celebrate the show’s sesquicentennial anniversary – that is, our 150th episode. We look back at the dozens of smart, funny, passionate, and insightful guests we’ve had over the past three years and let you hear from several in their own words. From finance and tech to pop culture and political theory, our guest experts provided us with the data and analysis to make sense of the modern economy and world we see around us every day. Thank you to everyone who has been a guest, helped...
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1 month ago
48 minutes

Free The Economy
Charting Tariff Madness with Joey Politano
This week we talk about changes in consumer credit, disappearing fast-food jobs in California, and six things the climate movement gets wrong about China. Our guest this week is popular economics Substacker and chart maker extraordinaire Joey Politano of Apricitas Economics and The Argument. We talk about tariffs, tech jobs, federalism, housing abundance, and more. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with new episodes by following us on Twitter at @freethe_economy and read...
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1 month ago
58 minutes

Free The Economy
Truth, Lies, and Economics with Jeremy Horpedahl
This week we talk about Social Security’s cost of living, conserving rare earth minerals, and why California keeps losing tech jobs. Our guest this week is Prof. Jeremy Horpedahl, director of the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics, associate professor of economics at the University of Central Arkansas, and contributor at Economists Writing Every Day. We talk about economic statistics and what we often get wrong about inflation, unemployment, wages, and tariffs. Free the Economy i...
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2 months ago
44 minutes

Free The Economy
Our Nuclear Tomorrow with Craig Piercy
This week we talk about administrative law judges, AI innovation saving lives, environmental regulation creating more wildfires, and more research on the fight against corporate welfare. Our interview this week is with Craig Piercy, CEO of the American Nuclear Society. We talk about innovation, abundance, start-up ventures, regulatory reform, and the future of affordable energy. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with new episodes by following us on Twitter at @free...
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2 months ago
50 minutes

Free The Economy
Obamacare Problems with Jeremy Nighohossian
This week we talk about the unintended consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, decarbonization of economic growth, and resources for reporting government corruption at the local level. Our interview this week is with Jeremy Nighohossian, senior fellow and economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. We talk about the government shutdown, insurance subsidies, the Affordable Care Act, big pharma, and how to introduce price discipline into healthcare spending. Free the Econom...
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2 months ago
44 minutes

Free The Economy
Energy Diversity and Abundance with Stephen Perkins
This week we talk about the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, why we don’t need a government agency for jobs data, how market trade builds social capital, and a new article on the managerial tyranny of Boomer environmentalism. Our interview this week is with Stephen Perkins, Chief Operating Officer of the American Conservation Coalition. We talk about oil and gas, wind and solar, permitting and zoning, transmission lines, and the future of U....
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2 months ago
48 minutes

Free The Economy
Celebrating Human Achievement with Ed Hudgins
This week we talk about the need to build more infrastructure in the UK, an award for public finance leadership in Oklahoma, teaching students to actually read in Mississippi, and shifting the Overton Window on corporate welfare. Our interview is with Ed Hudgins, founder of the Human Achievement Alliance. We’ll talk about innovation, optimism, technological development, and the future of upwing thinking. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with new episodes by follow...
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2 months ago
48 minutes

Free The Economy
Reforming Social Security with Romina Boccia
This week we cover a new study on pharmaceutical tariffs, whether to expect a new Great Depression (via Phil Magness and Marc Wheat in National Review), and how the U.S. auto industry is souring on the electric vehicle revolution. Our interview this week is with Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, editor of Debt Dispatch on Substack, and co-author of the new book "Reimagining Social Security: Global Lessons for Retirement Policy Changes." We talk ab...
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3 months ago
41 minutes

Free The Economy
Emergent Abundance with Alex Trembath
This week we cover the future of financial regulation, the end of the left vs. right distinction in politics, and how we all just dodged a bullet on alcohol and public health. Our interview this week is with Alex Trembath, deputy director of the Breakthrough Institute. We’ll talk about energy, housing, bureaucracy, special-interest politics, and the emergent coalition of the abundance movement. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with new episodes by following us on Twitte...
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3 months ago
56 minutes

Free The Economy
Empowering Patients with Vance Ginn
This week we cover potential changes to quarterly reporting for public companies, state-level AI regulations, spiking gas prices in California, and cosmetology licenses for sale in D.C. Our interview this week is with Vance Ginn, host of the Let People Prosper podcast, economist at Americans for Tax Reform, and co-author of the new book on health care policy, Empower Patients: Two Doctor's Cure for Healthcare. We’ll talk about third-part payments, employer tax deductions, Medicare, Medicaid, ...
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3 months ago
44 minutes

Free The Economy
Tariffs and Economic Freedom with Matt Mitchell
This week we cover the latest jobs numbers, the emergent community of abundance fans, the limits to taxing billionaires, and eliminating an illegal federal agency. Our interview this week is with Matt Mitchell, senior fellow in the Centre for Human Freedom at the Fraser Institute. We’ll talk about tariffs, prosperity, international comparisons, and the best policy for a global economy. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with new episodes by following us on Twitter a...
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3 months ago
44 minutes

Free The Economy
Clear-But-False Ideas with Kevin Williamson
This week we cover the Trump tariffs being struck down, Biden’s competition order being vacated, and new research on housing affordability. Our interview this week is with Kevin Williamson, national correspondent at The Dispatch and host of the How the World Works podcast. We’ll have a wide-ranging discussion covering everything from restaurant food waste to tariffs, wealth disparities, economic development, marginal costs and benefits, and the perpetual delusion that government can solve all...
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4 months ago
1 hour

Free The Economy
Ideological Diversity on the Right with Peter Lipsett
This week we cover Ray Dalio’s Big Debt Cycle, scandal in climate finance, jobs destroyed by tariffs, why AI can’t replace free markets, and the debut of the new publication "The Argument." Our interview this week is with Peter Lipsett, Vice President of DonorsTrust and host of the Giving Ventures podcast. We’ll talk about the right side of the modern political spectrum and the diversity it contains, looking at the differences between traditionalists, libertarians, fusionists, Catholic and Je...
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4 months ago
47 minutes

Free The Economy
Subsidies for Billionaires with David McGarry
This week we cover White House intervention in corporate ownership, the nation’s falling economic freedom ranking, and welcome new reforms to the Endangered Species Act. Our interview this week is with David McGarry, Research Director at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance. We’ll talk about stadium subsidies, special interests, labor union favoritism, municipal zoning, and who should have to pay for infrastructure projects in big cities. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up w...
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4 months ago
38 minutes

Free The Economy
Welfare and Work with Kevin Corinth
This week we cover new inflation data, public attitudes about Social Security, and California’s self-inflicted energy crisis. Our interview this week is with Kevin Corinth, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute. We’ll talk about social welfare spending, early childhood development, economic mobility, the Earned Income Tax Credit, benefits fraud, and proposals for a universal basic income. Free the Economy ...
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4 months ago
49 minutes

Free The Economy
This week we talk about corporate real estate investing, woke pension funds, changing fuel economy rules, and questions about a possible Trump Federal Reserve nominee. Our guest this week is Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute and China Beige Book. We’ll talk about manufacturing, Trump policy, President Xi’s plans for Taiwan, and whether we should give up the Bill of Rights to get more bridges and high-speed trains. Free the Economy is hosted by Richard Morrison. Keep up with ...