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Vern McKinley: Why Not to Bail Out the Banks
Recorded: Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Research Fellow Vern McKinley discusses bank bailouts and his new book Financing Failure with the Wall Street Journal.

Experts: Vern P. McKinley
Type: Television
Issues: Banking and Finance, Business, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Government Waste/Pork, Housing

       
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Alexander Tabarrok on Bounty Hunting & Defending the Indefensible
Recorded: Thursday, August 18, 2011

Alexander Tabarrok, Research Director at the Independent Institute, speaks with John Stossel of Fox Business Network’s “Stossel” on bounty hunting and defending the indefensible.

Experts: Alexander Tabarrok
Type: Television
Issues: Crime, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Law Enforcement, Privatization

       
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Alex Tabarrok Interviewed on Freakonomics Radio: The Economics of Bounty Hunting
Recorded: Thursday, May 26, 2011

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Independent Institute Research Director Alex Tabarrok is interviewed by Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics Radio in “To Catch a Fugitive,” on the enormous advantages of private bounty hunting over government police enforcement of bail jumping.

Experts: Alexander Tabarrok
Type: Radio
Issues: Law Enforcement, Privatization

       
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Robert Higgs on the U.S. Government’s Ethanol Scam
Recorded: Saturday, May 14, 2011

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Here is Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs speaking on “Ethanol Subsidies Have Many Bad Consequences,” from the Mises Circle seminar, “Agricultural Subsidies: Down on the D.C. Farm,” held May 14th in Indianapolis.

Experts: Robert Higgs
Type: Other Event
Issues: Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Government Waste/Pork

       
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Is U.S. Justice Broken?
Recorded: Thursday, December 9, 2010

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From fingerprinting to criminal sentencing, from lawyer licensing to judicial selection, and from eminent domain to wealth transfers via class-action lawsuits, how do perverse incentives impact the law and what reforms would create a more just and efficient legal system?

Experts: David D. Friedman, Alex Kozinski, Edward J. López, David J. Theroux
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Crime, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Law Enforcement

       
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