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Free The Economy
Free The Economy is a weekly podcast hosted by Richard Morrison of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, examining the intersection of news, policy, and economics featuring guests that include writers, policymakers, explorers, contrarians, and free thinkers of all kinds.
Episodes
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Affording the American Dream with Akash Chougule
This week we cover what’s making housing so expensive, the common good of the Constitution, and jawboning from the Federal Communications Commission. Our…
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The Grim Old Days with Chelsea Follett
This week we cover global energy security, another tariff lawsuit, and new talent in the fight for a free economy. Our interview is with Chelsea Follett…
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The Future of Fusionism with Stephanie Slade
This week we cover federal vs. state rules for prediction markets, the difference between Detroit and Pittsburgh, and a false solution for railway safety. Our…
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Competition and Innovation with Jack Nicastro
This week we cover the case of Suncor v. Boulder County at the Supreme Court, the problems with the Los Angeles mansion tax, new polling on tariffs, and the…
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Real-World Economics with Paul Mueller
This week we cover spiraling healthcare costs, reforming state-level regulations, and how to keep asset managers accountable to shareholders. Our interview is…
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Gen Z Capitalism with Sam Raus
This week we cover how data centers power our lives, how modern technology is fueling family togetherness, and the origins of America’s rebellious spirit. Our…
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The Overton Window with James Hohman
This week we cover Treasury yields, oil prices, U.S.-Taiwan security policy, and Trump’s $5,000 dividend checks. Our interview is with James Hohman, director…
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The Search for Critical Minerals with Seaver Wang
This week we cover the latest employment data, a new award for academic courage, free speech versus native land acknowledgements, and polling on data center…
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Maximum New York with Daniel Golliher
This week we cover climate collusion between California and Quebec, how luxurious college campuses are breeding socialists, and government regulation’s…
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The Future of Financial Regulation with Thomas Hoenig
This week we cover the status of occupational licensing in the fifty states, the coming crack-up over entitlement spending, and how to bring supersonic flights…
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Housing Abundance and Affordability with Luca Gattoni-Celli
This week we cover the advantages of a strong U.S. dollar, a dashboard for extreme weather events, and how to get infrastructure permitting moving again. Our…
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The Future of Climate Science with Roger Pielke, Jr.
This week we cover unemployment data, stadium subsidies, and how Americans feel about the U.S. economy right now. Our interview is with climate scientist and…
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The Independence Index with Marc Wheat
This week we cover auto tariffs, electricity supply and demand, and the future of the trucking workforce. Our interview is with Marc Wheat, General Counsel of…
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Founder’s Fire with Arthur Herman
This week we cover Social Security reform, what’s fueling state migration, and whether using prediction markets could impact your right to vote. This week…
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Questioning the AI Jobs Doomsday with Sean Higgins
This week we cover making home appliances great again, fighting price controls on healthcare, research on AI-fueled entrepreneurship, and a big new event on…
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Ethical Consumers and Sustainable Capitalism with Kimberlee Josephson
This week we cover the latest inflations numbers, reforming $1 trillion worth of federal grantmaking, and a new book on the Declaration of Independence. Our…
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Educating for Liberty with Richard Lorenc
Our guest this week is Richard Lorenc, formerly of the Foundation for Economic Education and Iron Light and now President & CEO of Lexandria, a digital…
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George Washington, Entrepreneur with John Berlau
This week we cover terrible advice on poverty from the United Nations, reforming the way we regulate banks, and possible new policy directions at the Federal…
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Free Speech and Financial Regulation with Peggy Little
This week we cover reforming the SEC’s stock trading database, banning AI exports, a climate lawsuit from Boulder, Colorado, and the latest episode of the…
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The Great Realignment with Stephen Davies
This week we cover U.S. companies getting hammered by tariffs, jobs that are surprisingly not getting replaced by AI, and some good news for people whose…
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Taxing the Rich with Jared Walczak
This week we cover America’s low-income churn, reforms to civil asset forfeiture, changes to vehicle emissions testing, a shout out to the new podcast Everyday…
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State Budgets and Bailouts with Thomas Savidge
This week we cover promising new classroom technology, increasing productivity (and avoiding layoffs) with AI, and the repeal of the SEC’s climate disclosure…
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Fighting for Freedom with Kent Lassman
This week we cover bank privacy, SNAP benefits, a new study on tariffs, and a great new podcast about ideas and innovation. Our guest this week is Kent…
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Fighting Medicaid Fraud with Parker Thayer
This week we cover higher inflation numbers, a strike on the Long Island Railroad, and new disability tech from Meta. Our guest this week is Parker Thayer…
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Pension Politics with Jarrett Skorup
This week we cover more legal headaches for the Trump tariffs, keeping kids safe in an AI world, and California’s latest government boondoggle. Our guest this…
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Highway Robbery with David Ditch
This week we cover how to make the moral case for capitalism, affordable housing via regulatory reform, and tracking the economic resilience of all 50 states…
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The Business of Federalism with Derek Kreifels
This week we cover childcare in the 50 states, employers and health coverage, the new Institute for Consumer Financial Choice at George Mason University, and…
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Revisiting Earth Day with Todd Myers
This week we cover the dwindling number of U.S. public companies, a pro-consumer merger in California, and how to end the housing affordability crisis. Our…
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How to Get What You Want with Josh Bandoch
This week we cover AI development in China, how large investors recycle homes, and the need for reform of the Clean Air Act. Our guest this week is Josh…
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Consumer-Regulated Energy with Travis Fisher
This week we cover economic growth in China, the political legacy of Viktor Orban in Hungary, and the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s “Liberation…
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Kids, Big Tech, and the First Amendment with Jessica Melugin
This week we cover deficit spending, the burdens of Total Boomer Luxury Communism, and how to renounce the villainization of business. Our guest this week is…
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Population and Abundance with Gale Pooley
This week we cover income inequality, myths about homelessness, First Amendment protections for AI, and reforming unfunded mandates. Our guest this week is…
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Enduring Policy Principles with Richard Stern
This week we cover housing affordability, train safety, Paul Ehrlich (1932-2026), and Brian Doherty (1968-2026). Our guest this week is Richard Stern, Vice…
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Regulating Finance with James Copland
This week we cover the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, fighting fraud in broadband deployment, and cutting red tape to boost housing…
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Mississippi Renaissance with Douglas Carswell
This week we cover housing abundance, capitalism’s approval rating, audits of state finances, and the consumer nostalgia of Stranger Things. Our guest this…
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Big Tech, Europe, and Free Speech with Spence Purnell
This week we cover the Supreme Court’s recent decision on tariff powers, myths of the Great Recession, and fiduciary duty for asset managers in Oklahoma. Our…
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The Impact of Trump’s Trade War with Alex Durante
This week we cover the sneaky federal cause of high housing prices, record outflows from ESG investment funds, and why YouTube and Instagram shouldn’t be…
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What’s Wrong with Congress with Kevin Kosar
This week we talk about Consumer-Regulated Electricity, the amazing falling U.S. poverty rate, and how smart TVs are keeping us all connected. Our guest this…
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Social Mobility in the 50 States with Justin Callais
This week we talk about satellite shot clocks at the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Reserve nominee Kevin Warsh’s digital-dollar beliefs, the…
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The Meaning of GDP with Brian Albrecht
This week we talk about the last 50 years of regulatory reform, a new study on climate adaptation, and reforms to Kentucky’s property tax system. Our guest…
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Permitting for Speed with Grant Dever
This week we talk about making a living in podcasting, confronting our mounting national debt, and assessing President Trump’s new healthcare plan. Our guest…
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Total Boomer Luxury Communism with Russ Greene
This week we talk about Trump’s 10% credit card interest proposal (and the dangers of populist economics in general), a new report on debanking from Cato…
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FDR’s Political Legacy with David Beito
This week we talk about communist housing policy in New York City, the best economics and history books to read in 2026, a legal setback for unions in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…