Benjamin Powell engages with Tracy Byrnes on Fox Business Network’s Freedom Watch on Government consumer safety videos and
the enforcement of media piracy laws.
Benjamin Powell, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, speaks on Fox Business Network’s Freedom Watch on irresponsible government spending on dead retirees & Hostess Twinkies.
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“Economics and environmentalism are types of modern religions.” So says Robert H. Nelson in his analysis of the roots of economics and environmentalism and their mutually antagonistic relations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The present debate raging over global warming exemplifies the clash of these two public theologies.
Benjamin Powell on CNBC discusses the pitfalls of U.S. protection of the farming industry with pork barrel farm policies, and how they hurt both Americans and producers in underdeveloped countries.
