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CEI Podcast for November 8, 2012: Election Wrap-Up

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President Obama has won a second term, and neither the House nor the Senate will change hands. Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner explains why the election turned out the way it did, and what the results mean going forward for a variety of issue areas.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Elections, Political Animals

CEI Podcast for November 1, 2012: Is Google’s Search Dominance Permanent?

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Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia argues that Google’s current dominance as an Internet search engine service is a fragile thing. Creative destruction is everywhere, and its onset cannot be predicted. As soon as something better comes out, consumers will flock to it in droves. Calls for antitrust enforcement should not be answered.

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Posted in Antitrust, CEI Podcast, Competition, Technology

CEI Podcast for October 25, 2012: The Changing Climate Debate

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Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell discusses his recent PBS Frontline appearance, and how the debate over global warming has shifted in the last few years. The issue has all but fallen off the radar as economic difficulties have supplanted environmental concerns in the public mind.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, The New Religion

CEI Podcast for October 11, 2012: More Americans

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Policy Analyst David Bier thinks the world could use more Americans. And an easy way make happen is through increasing legal immigration. America’s superior economic institutions give immigrants the ability to create more wealth and value than they could in their home countries. Expanding legal channels would also curb dangerous immigration black markets for labor and human smuggling.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Immigration, International

CEI Podcast for September 27, 2012: The Future of Generic Biotech Crops

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Senior Fellow Greg Conko discusses his new paper, “Is There a Future for Generic Biotech Crops? Regulatory Reform Is Needed for a Viable Post-Patent Industry.” Patents will soon expire for several popular biotech crops, opening the way for cheaper generic versions. But because, unlike prescription drugs, biotech crops have to be re-approved every few years, the future of generic biotech crops is very much in doubt. Conko recommends getting rid of re-approval requirements to put them on the same footing as other products.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Innovation, regulation

CEI Podcast for September 20, 2012: The Economic Development Administration

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CEI Policy Analyst David Bier is author of the new study “The Case for Abolishing the Economic Development Administration.” The agency’s impact goes well beyond its modest $286 million budget. On average, the EDA only pays for about one seventh of its projects. The rest of the burden falls on state and local governments and the private sector. Those projects include $2 million for a wine-tasting room, $35 million for a convention center that is projected to lose money, and other boondoggles.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Economics, Spending, Stimulus

CEI Podcast for September 13, 2012: CEI Sues the EPA

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The EPA has been stonewalling a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Competitive Enterprise Institute since 2010. Since the EPA has no intention to comply with the law, CEI has sued the EPA in a case that could set a major precedent in government transparency. Energy Policy Analyst William Yeatman explains how agency officials have been using private email accounts to conduct official business, arguing that non-governmental email accounts are exempt from outside scrutiny. CEI argues that basic transparency demands that public information be made public.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Law, The New Religion

CEI Podcast for September 6, 2012: Modernizing Air Traffic Control

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America’s air traffic control system can be charitably described as an antique. Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner describes some of the problems the FAA has encountered in its attempt to move from the vacuum tube to GPS, and suggests a better path to modernization.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Innovation, regulation

CEI Podcast for August 30, 2012: Delayed FDA Rules Should Be Scrapped

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Major forthcoming rules from a variety of agencies have been delayed until after the November elections, possibly for political reasons. Among them are FDA food safety regulations with a $1.4 billion annual price tag. Senior Fellow Greg Conko argues that these rules should be scrapped altogether for two reasons: they will do little to improve food safety, and they will give large food corporations an unfair competitive advantage over smaller producers.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Economics, regulation

CEI Podcast for August 23, 2012: Bailouts as Corruption

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Senior Fellow Matt Patterson argues that when government is big and powerful enough to dispense favors like bailouts, special interests will flock to Washington to get a piece of the pie. Corruption is the inevitable result, as the GM/Delphi/UAW bailout showed. The only effective way to limit corruption, Patterson argues, is to limit government.

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Posted in Bailouts, CEI Podcast, Economics