In this week’s episode we cover the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, fighting fraud in broadband deployment, and cutting red tape to boost housing affordability. Our guest this week is James Copland, senior fellow and director of legal policy at the Manhattan Institute. We talk about stocks, bonds, cryptocurrency, ESG investing, the SEC, the CFTC, and the future of financial regulation in the US You can watch the video version of our conversation here or below.
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- Free the Economy Episode 162: The Impact of Trump’s Trade War with Alex Durante
- Free the Economy Episode 161: What’s Wrong with Congress with Kevin Kosar
- Free the Economy Episode 160: Social Mobility in the 50 States with Justin Callais
- Free the Economy Episode 159: The Meaning of GDP with Brian Albrecht
- Free the Economy Episode 158: Permitting for Speed with Grant Dever
- Free the Economy Episode 157: Total Boomer Luxury Communism with Russ Greene
- Free the Economy Episode 156: FDR’s Political Legacy with David Beito
- Free the Economy Episode 155: China’s Economy and the US with Derek Scissors
Join us next week when our guest will be Richard Stern of Advancing American Freedom. We’ll talk about evergreen principles of good economic policy and why we should avoid both left- and right-wing populism.