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CEI Podcast for December 18, 2013: The FDA Goes after 23andMe

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The Food and Drug Administration recently banned 23andMe, a genetic testing service, from marketing its product to consumers. CEI Executive Director and Senior Fellow Gregory Conko thinks the FDA should reverse the ban.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Health Care, Nanny State, regulation

CEI Podcast for December 12, 2013: The Affordable Care Act’s Marriage Penalties

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The Affordable Care Act’s subsides and tax credits are structured in such a way as to cause thousands of dollars worth of penalties for many married couples. CEI Senior Attorney Hans Bader proposes phasing them out as income rises to soften the blow.

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CEI Podcast for December 5, 2013: Ending Corporate Welfare

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Stephen Slivinski, a senior economist at the Goldwater Institute, discusses solutions to the seemingly intractable problem of corporate welfare.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Economics, Public Choice, Spending, Taxation

CEI Podcast for November 27, 2013: Toxic Turkey Day?

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Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini debunks scare stories about chemicals in your family’s Thanksgiving dinner, ranging from BPA in canned foods to naturally occurring pesticides in potatoes. Anti-chemical activists forget the cardinal rule of toxicology: it is the dose that makes the poison. Relax, eat well, and enjoy spending time with your family this Thanksgiving.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Nanny State, Science

CEI Podcast for November 22, 2013: Daniel Hannan on Inventing Freedom

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Daniel Hannan is a member of the European Parliament, representing South East England. He discusses his latest book, Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World. He argues that “What raised the English-speaking peoples to greatness was not a magical property in their DNA, nor a special richness in their earth, nor yet an advantage in military technology, but their political and legal institutions.”

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Posted in CEI Podcast, History

CEI Podcast for November 12, 2013: CEI’s “I, Pencil” Film Wins Award

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CEI’s short film “I,Pencil,” based on Leonard Read’s 1958 essay, won the first annual Reason Video Prize on November 6. The prize honors short-form films on individual rights, limited government and the free market. Nicole Ciandella wrote the adapted screenplay for the film.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Economics, The Market Process

CEI Podcast for November 7, 2013: A Prohibitive Excise Tax

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A new CEI study finds that the most expensive ingredient in beer isn’t grain, hops, or equipment: it’s taxes. Study co-author and Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies Michelle Minton has more on the problem, and how and how two bills currently before Congress might solve it.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Nanny State, Taxation

CEI Podcast for October 30, 2013: Bringing Transparency to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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George Mason University law professor and Mercatus Center senior scholar Todd Zywicki discusses his paper, “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Savior or Menace?” His thesis is that this “independent agency inside another independent agency, presided over by a single director who is insulated from presidential removal,” which is also immune to Congress’ power of the purse, is a return to a Nixon-era approach to agency structure. He gives several recommendations for improving actual consumer protection.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Economics, Law, regulation

CEI Podcast for October 17, 2013: Supreme Court to Review EPA Carbon Emission Regulation Lawsuit

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General Counsel Sam Kazman explains why, in his view, the Clean Air Act does not give the EPA authority to regulate carbon emissions. CEI is a co-petitioner in a lawsuit over those regulations that the Supreme Court has announced it will review during its current term.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, The New Religion

CEI Podcast for October 10, 2013: CEI Files FOIA Requests Over Park Closures

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During the government shutdown, the National Park Service has barricaded and even closed numerous open-air memorials and parks – including, in some cases, privately owned parks. CEI has filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who made the decisions and why. Senior Attorney and Counsel for Special Projects Hans Bader discusses the case.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Public Choice, Spending