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Saving the Environment with Clean, Cheap, and Exportable Energy, with Neil Chatterjee Feb 09, 2020

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Neil Chatterjee is the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Texas has an abundance of clean, cheap, exportable energy and no one knows that better than Chairman Chatterjee. We discussed Texas's unique situation with competitive retail markets and the impact of American energy in decreasing global emissions and increasing global standards of living.

Why Embracing Capitalism Leads to a Better World for Everybody, with Marian Tupy of HumanProgress.org Feb 09, 2020

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Marian L. Tupy is the editor of HumanProgress.org and a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He specializes in globalization and global well‐being, and the political economy of Europe and sub‐Saharan Africa.

Poverty, human rights, education, life expectancy, and virtually every other aspect of our lives has improved dramatically over the last 100 years. We talked about why capitalism made this possible, and the disturbing rise in the popularity of socialism in today's free societies.

Nuclear Energy, Chernobyl, and the Simpsons, with Maria Korsnick Feb 09, 2020

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Maria Korsnick is the President and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute. Clean energy is currently one of our most important conversations on Capitol Hill. Maria joined me to debunk some of the myths about nuclear energy, that there really is *no* green slime in nuclear plants, and why nuclear needs to be a critical piece of our clean energy plans.

The Medicare for All Fraud, with Charles Blahous Feb 09, 2020

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Charles Blahous is the J. Fish and Lillian F. Smith Chair and Senior Research Strategist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he specializes in domestic economic policy and retirement security, as well as federal fiscal policy, entitlements, and health care programs. Blahous is the author of the influential studies The Costs of a National Single-Payer Healthcare System and The Fiscal Consequences of the Affordable Care Act.

Medicare for All is expensive -- and Dr. Blahous tells us exactly *how* expensive this single-payer system would be. This would impact not just the very top of the 1%, but your everyday middle class family.

Cheaper, Better, Prescription Drugs, with Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Feb 09, 2020

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Dr. Scott Gottlieb is the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he continues his work on improving public health through entrepreneurship and medical innovation and on expanding regulatory approaches to maintain patient and physician autonomy.

We talked about regulatory approaches to making prescription drugs more affordable. Learn why price controls, like those which would be implemented in the Democrats' drug pricing bill HR3, have terrible consequences for the development and innovation of prescription drugs.