Category Archives: CEI Podcast

New CEI Podcast – October 21, 2010: Relic of Prohibition

Posted on October 21, 2010 | 1 comment

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CEI Director of Insurance Studies Michelle Minton analyzes proposals to privatize Virginia’s liquor stores. Virginia is one of 18 states where the government holds a legal monopoly on the sale of spirits.

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CEI Podcast – October 14, 2010: Antitrust Follies and Regulatory Reform

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CEI Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews talks about why antitrust actually hurts competition, and offers some ideas for regulatory reform based on his recent articles for BigGovernment.com and The Washington Times, and on his annual Ten Thousand Commandments report.

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CEI Podcast – October 7, 2010: Trade, Jobs, and Korea

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CEI Adjunct Fellow Fran Smith talks about the EU-Korea free trade agreement that takes effect next year, and why the US-Korea FTA stalled, to the economy’s detriment. Fran also talks about NAFTA’s impact on jobs, and why imports are a good thing.

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CEI Podcast – September 30, 2010: William F. Buckley

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Jeremy Lott, a former Warren Brookes Fellow at CEI and an editor for RealClearPolitics, is the author of the new book, William F. Buckley. Jeremy talks about the book and the complicated, sometimes adversarial relationship between conservatism and libertarianism — a gap Buckley spent much of his life trying to bridge.

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CEI Podcast – September 23, 2010: The Frankenfish Myth

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CEI Senior Fellow Greg Conko, author of The Frankenfood Myth, talks about the promise and imagined peril of genetically modified salmon. The controversial creature reaches normal size twice as fast as unmodified salmon.

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New CEI Podcast: Creating High-Tech Jobs

Posted on September 16, 2010 | Comments Off on New CEI Podcast: Creating High-Tech Jobs

Ryan Radia, CEI’s Associate Director of Technology Studies, talks about obstacles and opportunities for job creation in the high-tech sector. Regulatory uncertainty is making companies wary of making long-term investments. The sheer number of regulations makes it very expensive to hire workers. According to an article Ryan and I coauthored at RealClearMarkets, rolling back the regulatory state could pave the way for more jobs.

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CEI Podcast: Alex Nowrasteh on Birthright Citizenship

Posted on September 9, 2010 | 1 comment

In the latest CEI Podcast, I interview my colleague Alex Nowrasteh. He thinks the recent push to repeal birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants is misguided.

Have a listen here. Length: 4:49.

Alex recently wrote an article on the issue for Fox News.

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