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CEI Podcast for January 17, 2013: Fighting Class Action Abuse

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Lawyers are clever creatures, but they rarely use their powers for good. CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman is an exception to the rule. He is involved in a lawsuit, Kazman v. Frontier Oil, that could set a needed precedent for reining in outrageous attorney fees in groundless class action suits.

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CEI Podcast for January 14, 2013: Meet Lawson Bader

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CEI has a new president, and his name is Lawson Bader. He comes to us from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he was vice president. He is here to introduce himself and talk about what the future holds for CEI.

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CEI Podcast for January 3, 2013: The Fiscal Cliff Meets the Costberg

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Congress made an unsatisfying compromise deal this week to avoid falling off the fiscal cliff. But Vice President for policy Wayne Crews thinks this is just the tip of the costberg, and Congress should tackle a more fundamental issue: the $1.8 trillion regulatory state.

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CEI Podcast for December 19, 2012: The EPA Regulatory Report Card

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Fellow in Regulatory Studies Ryan Young talks about the need for more transparency in the world of regulation, as well as CEI’s new EPA Regulatory Report Card. The report card, which collects data about the amount and cost of EPA regulation from numerous sources into one publicly accessible document, is something he argues that all agencies should be doing on their own each year. David Bier guest-hosts.

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CEI Podcast for December 12, 2012: Ending the Beer Monopoly

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Fellow in Consumer policy Studies Michelle Minton argues that the beer industry in America is essentially a monopoly. In her new paper “Avoid a Monopoly by Setting the Market Free: How the Mandatory Three-Tier Distribution System Inhibits Competition,” she argues that this monopoly is a regulatory creation, and offers ideas for reform.

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Posted in CEI Podcast, Competition, Economics

CEI Podcast for December 6, 2012: Rising Public Sector Pay

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Senior Fellow Matt Patterson discusses why public sector workers make substantially more money than their private sector counterparts.

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CEI Podcast for November 27, 2012: Rachel Was Wrong

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Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini talks about her forthcoming CEI study, “Rachel Was Wrong: Agrochemicals’ Benefits to Human Health and the Environment.” Fifty years ago in her book Silent Spring, Carson argued that pesticides and other chemicals would increase cancer rates; they have actually gone down despite increased life expectancy. Carson argued that chemicals would reduce environmental quality; indicators have actually improved almost across the board, and high-yield farming feeds more people while leaving more habitat for wildlife. Carson argued that chemicals would increase food-borne illnesses; again, they have gone down.

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CEI Podcast for November 21, 2012: Will Hostess Survive?

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Senior Fellow Matt Patterson breaks down the controversy surrounding confection maker Hostess’ perilous position. Stalled negotiations with one of the company’s labor unions might force the company to shut down entirely.

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CEI Podcast for November 16, 2012: I, Pencil: The Movie

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Nick Tucker, producer and director of the new CEI short film “I, Pencil,” discusses the importance of Leonard Read’s classic essay, how the project got started, and how ideas like spontaneous order and connectivity are genuinely inspiring.

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CEI Podcast for November 13, 2012: The Fiscal Cliff at Home and Abroad

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Phrases like “austerity” and “the fiscal cliff” are dominating news coverage not just here in the U.S., but in Europe as well. Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow Matthew Melchiorre explains what both sides of the Atlantic need to do to avoid fiscal catastrophe.

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