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Art Carden on Stossel
Recorded: Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Research Fellow Art Carden on Stossel to discuss the topic “What you think you know...may not be so.”

Experts: Art Carden
Type: Television
Issues: Agriculture, Economic Policy, Education, Free Market Economics, Trade
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Benjamin Powell on the ‬Payroll Tax Cut and Salt Regulation by the FDA
Recorded: Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Benjamin Powell engages with Judge Napolitano on Fox Business Network’s Freedom Watch about the payroll tax cut and the FDA regulation of salt.

Experts: Benjamin W. Powell
Type: Television
Issues: Agriculture, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Regulation and Deregulation, Social Security, Taxes
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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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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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The Frankenfood Myth?
Recorded: Tuesday, December 13, 2005

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For millennia, farmers all over the world have bred crops for their resistance to disease, productivity, and nutritional value. Today, few topics have the power to inspire as much international furor and misinformation as the development and distribution of genetically altered foods.

Experts: Bruce N. Ames, Henry I. Miller
Type: Independent Institute Event
Issues: Agriculture, Business, Environment, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Science
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