IPI Policy Basics: 'Right to Repair' Is a Trojan Horse and a Threat to American Innovation (Audio: Podcast)
“Right to Repair” initiatives in the states seem reasonable but are actually Trojan Horse proposals designed to undermine intellectual property protection, but were they to succeed American innovation would be undermined and consumer safety would be compromised. With the assistance of IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews.
Is Biden's Broadband Infrastructure Spending Future-Proofing or Foolishness? (Audio: Podcast)
In discussion with IPI President Tom Giovanetti, Research Fellow Bartlett Cleland discusses the current state of broadband infrastructure and explains why enormous new federal spending on broadband is unnecessary and likely harmful.
IPI Policy Basics: What Is Intellectual Property and Why Is it Important? (Audio: Podcast)
In honor of World IP Day, IPI President Tom Giovanetti and Research Fellow Bartlett Cleland discuss why intellectual property protection is important, and why IPI hosts annual World IP Day Policy Briefings.
Will President Biden's Gun Control Executive Orders Solve Any Problems? (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar Merrill Matthews welcomes Dr. H. Sterling Burnett in a discussion of each of President Biden's five points of his gun control executive order and finds they miss the mark.
Climate Change Is Not Behind Central American Migrants (Audio: Podcast)
Some would have us believe that Central American migrants are fleeing north to escape climate change. IPI Resident Scholar Merrill Matthews welcomes Dr. H. Sterling Burnett who exposes the myth behind the notion of "climate refugees."
What's This About a Global Minimum Corporate Income Tax? (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar Merrill Matthews welcomes tax expert Dan Pilla to discuss Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's new proposal for a global minimum corporate income tax as a way to discourage large companies from fleeing the U.S. if President Biden successfully raises their tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent.
IPI Policy Basics Podcast: No, Markets Aren't Perfect--They're Just Better than the Alternatives (Audio: Podcast)
Those of us who are proponents of free-markets are under no obligation to argue that markets are perfect—just that they are better than the alternatives of pillaging, communism, socialism, and attempts to manage the economy from the top-down by government bureaucrats. With IPI President Tom Giovanetti and Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews.
Joe Biden Is No Barack Obama--Fiscally (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews explains that President Joe Biden’s massive federal spending blowout makes Barack Obama look like a fiscal moderate. And a side discussion about the perils of dumping crazy amounts of money on broadband projects with IPI President Tom Giovanetti.
IPI Policy Basics: What Is Moral Hazard? (Audio: Podcast)
In this episode, IPI President Tom Giovanetti and Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews discuss the concept of moral hazard in public policy, and why every new proposal should be examined for whether it contains any moral hazard. And once you understand moral hazard, you start to see it in almost everything government touches.
Biden's 'Stimulus Plan' for Central American Corruption (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews explains how President Biden’s attempt to solve the Central American migrant problem with more foreign aid directed at “root causes” will likely just enrich the region’s corrupt leaders. With the assistance of IPI President Tom Giovanetti.
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