The EPA Once Again Overreaches Its Authority (Audio: Podcast)
Today, the EPA announced a slate of new rules and regulations for coal and natural gas fired electrical generation plants, including mandating carbon capture technologies. IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews suggests that such an act might not stand up to Supreme Court scrutiny under the major questions doctrine, and IPI President Tom Giovanetti is amused that the EPA claims it can impose such sweeping, ambitious regulations without raising the cost of electricity to consumers.
President Biden Mandates Electric Vehicles (Audio: Podcast)
By attempting to radically restrict auto emissions through regulatory fiat, President Biden is attempting to force a major policy change on the American people and the American economy by essentially mandating the use of electric vehicles. IPI President Tom Giovanetti rants a couple of times about this violation of the principles of self-government, while IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews explains why the country just isn’t ready for the forced migration to electronic vehicles.
Government Bureaucracies Can't Supervise Our Banks. Here's a Private Sector Alternative (Audio: Podcast)
With the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and a few others, it’s clear that the Federal Reserve failed to detect and prevent fairly obvious problems, and then acted to guarantee deposits above the legal guarantee threshold of $250,000. Beyond of the moral hazard of that action, why is it that the only option for protecting deposits is the federal government? Shouldn’t there be ways to insure the security of deposits through private sector devices? IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews describes his recent op/ed, written with IPI Board Chairman Wayne Stoltenberg, on private alternatives to federal insurance.
IPI Policy Basics: What Is Industrial Policy, and Why Shouldn't We Have One? (Audio: Podcast)
The recent Obama and Trump administrations have progressively moved in the direction of industrial policy, but the Biden administration has jumped in with both feet. Oddly, some conservatives are increasingly comfortable with the government using industrial policy to influence outcomes they favor. In this IPI Policy Basics podcast, IPI President Tom Giovanetti and Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews explain what industrial policy is, and why it’s largely incompatible with a limited government, free-market philosophy, while also acknowledging that political reality will always be pushing toward rather than against elements of industrial policy.
No, Conservatives Should Not Empower Government to Regulate Content Moderation
IPI President Tom Giovanetti joins 660AM the Answer guest host Scott Braddock in a discussion prompted by Twitter’s banning of Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. In this conversation, Tom reminds the listeners that although he objects to the bias imposed by the company, they are a private company with the rights to make such business decisions and warns conservatives to not let their frustration regarding social media platforms cause them to become a proponent of government regulation of speech.
IPI Policy Basics: Is Antitrust the Right Solution to the Problem? (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Senior Research Fellow Bartlett Cleland talks through the right way to think about antitrust policy. When is a company “too big?” Are there benefits to scale? What’s the consumer welfare standard, and isn’t any alternative to the consumer welfare standard just arbitrary? With IPI President Tom Giovanetti.
IPI Policy Basics: Social Media Regulation, Section 230, and the First Amendment (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Senior Research Fellow Bartlett Cleland and IPI President Tom Giovanetti have an extensive conversation explaining the origins of Section 230, and the insurmountable First Amendment problems with states trying to compel social media platforms to host speech they don’t want to host.
IPI Policy Basics: The Goal Should be Energy Abundance (Audio: Podcast)
There is no need for fossil fuel advocates to bash renewable energy, and vice versa. Instead, we should all be pursuing energy abundance as a strategy, and encouraging an “all of the above” approach. Innovation in energy should be favored by all, whether it’s innovation in cleaner burning fossil fuels, solar and wind, geothermal, or nuclear. There is no reason to discourage a single megawatt from being produced from any energy source, and large-scale storage has the potential to radically create new energy markets and new opportunities. Led by IPI President Tom Giovanetti, with Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews.
Biden's First Speech to Congress Filled with Impossible Goals, Irresponsible Spending, and Green Delusions (Audio: Podcast)
IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews analyzes some (but not all) of President Biden’s falsehoods, misrepresentations, impossible goals and irresponsible spending in his first speech to a joint session of Congress.
End of the Year Review (Audio: Interview)
In this last interview of the year, IPI President Tom Giovanetti talks with 660AM The Answer's Mark Davis about the extension of authoritarian government and the further examination of the 2020 election.
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