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Charles Peña on‬ the Imperial Presidency
Recorded: Friday, July 15, 2011

Charles Peña, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, speaks with Judge Napolitano of Fox Business Network's Freedom Watch on how Presidential war powers have expanded between the White House and Congress.

Experts: Charles V. Peña
Type: Television
Issues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power

       
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Benjamin Powell on Employment and Facial Profiling
Recorded: Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Benjamin Powell speaks with Judge Napolitano of Fox Business Network's Freedom Watch about the IRS and the difference between full- and part-time employment. He also comments on the validity of police officers being allowed to use facial profiling.

Experts: Benjamin W. Powell
Type: Television
Issues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Government Power

       
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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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Robert Higgs Interviewed: The Expanding Pork for Military Pay and Towns
Recorded: Friday, August 27, 2010

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Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs is interviewed by Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio on the widening gap between public and private sector pay, the increasing affluence of military towns compared with others, the disappearance of traditional checks on government power, and the predation and incremental “ratchet effect” of expanding governmental powers that increase “temporarily” during wartime but never really recede.

Experts: Robert Higgs
Type: Radio
Issues: Economic History and Development (U.S.), Government Power, Labor and Employment, Terrorism and National Crises

       
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Benjamin Powell on U.S. Pork Barrel Farm Policies
Recorded: Friday, August 20, 2010

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.

Experts: Benjamin W. Powell
Type: Television
Issues: Agriculture, Government Waste/Pork, Trade

       
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