One of Rishi Sunak's five priorities for 2023 is to halve inflation. Given prices are still rising, we discuss whether it's going be possible. Also does Scotland have more tidal power capacity than the rest of the world combined, as has been claimed? We look at competing claims about how prepared the NHS was before the pandemic, ask whether scrapping VAT on products like tampons and e-books has actually benefitted consumers and look at the claim that one in three women in the UK has had an abortion.
Cato Daily Podcast - A Few Avenues for Fixing Broken Federal Budgeting
Congress is pretty good at avoiding accountability, opting instead for budgeting gimmicks that aim to hide the true cost of government. Romina Boccia highlights some of the ideas that could change that.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Appealing Questionable Convictions after Jones v. Hendrix
A likely bad conviction, a sloppily written law, and the Supreme Court have come together to provide a strange and troubling outcome in Jones v. Hendrix. Cato's Jay Schweikert details what happened.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?
?This episode was updated on 26th June to remove an error in how we quantified 32 trillion dollars? The level of US government debt has just surpassed 32 trillion dollars. Negotiations over raising the borrowing limit once again went down to the wire a few weeks ago. But how concerned should we all be about how much the US government borrows? We investigate with the help of Kent Smetters, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Betsey Stevenson, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
Cato Daily Podcast - For the Vast Majority, Legal Immigration to the U.S. Is Virtually Impossible
David Bier explains why the "just immigrate legally" crowd display a profound ignorance of how immigration does and doesn't work in the United States.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The War on Vaping Proceeds Apace
Cato's Jeff Singer discusses the accelerating war on vaping and why the consequences will be as predictable as most prohibitions.
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Curious City - What Happens To Unidentified Or Unclaimed Bodies in Cook County?
When someone dies in Cook County and there’s no one to identify or claim the body, a small army of people from the public and private sectors work to find out who the person is, if they have any relatives or friends, and ultimately give them a dignified burial.
Curious City - What Happens To Unidentified Or Unclaimed Bodies in Cook County?
When someone dies in Cook County and there’s no one to identify or claim the body, a small army of people from the public and private sectors work to find out who the person is, if they have any relatives or friends, and ultimately give them a dignified burial.
Cato Daily Podcast - Improving Youth Online Safety without Sacrificing Privacy and Speech
Jennifer Huddleston argues that currently proposed policy approaches to youth online safety are overly blunt tools that will cause more harm than good.
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You Get A Podcast! - Oprah and Gayle: Road Trip! w/ Brittany Luse
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This episode, we look at an iconic friendship — and an epic road trip. In 2006, Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King drove from California to New York together. Of course, they turned it into an episode for the Oprah Winfrey Show. We look at their friendship, what it says about the bond between Black women, and of course what went down on the very long drive.
Our guest for this episode is Brittany Luse, host of NPR’s It’s Been A Minute.
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