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218 episodiEpisode 218: Learning From California: Policy Lessons From Golden State Exodus
Joe Selvaggi speaks with Tim Anaya of the Pacific Research Institute about his new book, The California Left Coast Survivor’s Guide, exploring insight...
Ep 217: New England Short Circuit: Distorted Incentives Drive Energy Prices Up and Reliability Down
Joe Selvaggi talks with Travis Fisher from the Cato Institute about the rising costs and increasing fragility of the New England power grid, as green...
Episode 216: Controlling Drug Prices: Costs and Benefits of Direct Negotiation with Big Pharma
Joe Selvaggi talks with Pioneer Institute Director Bill Smith about the Inflation Reduction Act's impact on drug pricing negotiations and its potentia...
Episode 215: Harris' Tax Vision: Policy & Politics
Joe Selvaggi talks with Tax Foundation Vice President William McBride about the details and potential effects of the tax policy proposed by Kamala Har...
Episode 214: Digital Privacy Divide: Can Law Enforcement Google Where You’ve Been?
Joe Selvaggi talks with Cato Institute legal fellow Brent Skorup about the split in the court of appeals over the Constitution's 4th Amendment protect...
Episode 213: Housing Bond Bill: Could Billions Better Bay State Cost of Living
Joe Selvaggi talks with Pioneer's Senior Housing Fellow, Andrew Mikula, about the recently passed $5.2 billion bond bill, discussing its key features...
Episode 212: Ruinous Red Tape: Epic Cost of Unchecked Federal Rule Making
Joe Selvaggi discusses the emergence of the massive, costly, and rapidly growing register of federal rules and regulations with Competitive Enterprise...
Ep 211: Property Tax Reassessment: Beleaguered Buildings Bear Burden of Boston’s Burgeoning Budget
Joe Selvaggi talks with Marty Walz, the interim president of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, about more viable, long-term alternatives to Mayor...
Ep 210: Registering Republican Realignment: GOP Convention Showcases Conservatism's New Direction
Joe Selvaggi talks with the CATO Institute’s Dr. Norbert Michel about the shift in the Republican vision and policy goals from decades past, as reflec...
Ep. 209: Candidate Selection Breakdown: Presidential Primary Primacy or Determined Delegate Detour
Joe Selvaggi talks with MIT Professor Charles Stewart III about the political party’s presidential candidate nomination process and what or who ultima...
Episode 208: Breaking Down Encampments: Court Finds no Right to Sleep Outdoors
Joe Selvaggi speaks with Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Stephen Eide about the Grants Pass v. Johnson Supreme Court decision and its impact on...
Ep. 207 Underfunding Overdose Alternatives: Price Controls Hinder Search for Non-Addictive Opioids
Joe Selvaggi talks with Pioneer Institute's Director of Healthcare Initiatives, Dr. Bill Smith, about the challenges posed by new regulations and pric...
Episode 206: Unlocking Affordable Housing: Sources and Solutions for Cost Crisis
Joe Selvaggi talks with Pioneer Institute Housing Fellow Andrew Mikula about his research on the causes and cures for our region's highest-in-the-nati...
Episode 205: Jawboning Free Speech: State Coercion Finds Limits at Supreme Court
Joe Selvaggi talks with Cato Institute legal scholar Thomas Berry about the effects of the 9-0 Supreme Court decision in NRA v. Vullo on states' abili...
Episode 204: Protectionism’s Bipartisan Embrace: Who Pays When Imports Cost More
Joe Selvaggi talks with international tax and trade expert Clark Packard about the tension between the economic and political calculus behind the Bide...
Episode 203: Universal Savings Accounts: Designing Tax Incentives that Pay to Save
Joe Selvaggi talks with CATO Institute’s Dr. Adam Michel about the opportunity for tax reforms that promote individual savings, an important foundatio...
Episode 202: Precision Law Enforcement: Can Gunfire Detection Technology Serve and Protect Everyone?
Joe Selvaggi talks with SoundThinking's Senior Vice President Tom Chittum about gunfire location technology promises and pitfalls when deployed by law...
Episode 201: Examining Diversity’s Dividends: Can Studies Survive Contact with Peer Review
Joe Selvaggi talks with business data scientist Dr. Jeremiah Green about his peer review work examining consulting firm McKinsey’s studies on the meas...
Episode 200: Promoting Policy Probity: Confessions of Hubwonk's Humble Host at 200
Hubwonk's Joe Selvaggi marks episode 200 with a solo podcast that offers some backstory of his journey to becoming a host and offers some insights lea...
Episode 199: Losing Local Labor: Retaining Workers Remains a Massachusetts Challenge
Joe Selvaggi talks with Pioneer Institute's Research Associate Aidan Enright about Pioneer's annual report on the Massachusetts labor force and discus...
Episode 198: Tax Man Confounded: Why High Rates Haven’t Yielded Higher Revenue
Joe Selvaggi talks with economic scholar Dr Brian Domitrovic about the history of federal tax policy and the reasons for why varied marginal rates fai...
Episode 197: Industrial Policy Reimaged: Can Government Improve Free Markets
Joe Selvaggi discusses industrial policy, its aspirations and limitations, with CATO Institute Associate Director Colin Grabow, in response to Senator...
Episode 196: Posting Patient Prices: Transparency Cure for Hospital Blank Checks
Joe Selvaggi interviews entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of PatientRightsAdvocate.org, Cynthia Fisher, discussing her research and advocacy f...
Episode 195: Constitutional Property Taking: Exclusionary Zoning's Costs to Owners and Society
Joe Selvaggi talks with George Mason Law Professor Ilya Somin about the costs, benefits, and legal foundations of exclusionary zoning argued in his re...
Episode 194: Poor Housing Incentives: Tax Credits Reward Politicians Not Neighbors in Need
Joe Selvaggi interviews Chris Edwards, Chair of Fiscal Studies at CATO Institute, about his research on the 40-year history of Low-Income Housing Tax...
Episode 193: Biden’s Budget Breakdown: Pragmatic Progress or Political Posturing
Joe Selvaggi talks with Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Brian Riedl about how the contours of President Biden’s recently released budget proposal re...
Episode 192: Genetic Therapy Revolution: Benefits and Barriers for Medicine’s New Horizon
Joe Selvaggi talks with neurobiologist and writer Dr. Anne Sydor about the potential for gene therapy to address deadly and debilitating diseases and...
Episode 191: Contours of Content Curation: SCOTUS Hears Online Free Speech Cases
Joe Selvaggi talks with U.S. Constitution scholar, Cato Institute's Thomas Berry, about oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the NetChoice cases, ex...
Episode 190: Mortgage's New Normal: Guide to Better Borrowing Amidst Higher Rates
Joe Selvaggi talks with mortgage expert, Trip Miller of Cambridge Savings Bank, about mortgage rates and trends and explores best practices for findin...
Episode 189: Medicaid’s Massive Miasma: Taming Beacon Hill’s Burgeoning Budget Beast
Joe Selvaggi talks with Marc Joffe, a state policy analyst at the Cato Institute, about his research on Medicaid's cost and size. They explore how Mas...
Episode 188: Baystate Budget Blues: Declining Revenue Causes Concern
Joe Selvaggi engages in a conversation with Pioneer Institute’s Eileen McAnneny, Senior Fellow for Economic Opportunity, to analyze the status of the...
Episode 187: Smothering Gas Exports: President Sides with Environmentalists Over Environment
Joe Selvaggi interviews Dr. Benjamin Zycher, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, on the impact of President Biden's executive order...
Episode 186: U.S. Manufacturing Health: Does the U.S. Need an Industrial Policy?
Host Joe Selvaggi interviews Scott Lincicome from the Cato Institute. They discuss the U.S. manufacturing industry, international trade, and industria...
Challenging Government Prerogatives: SCOTUS Reconsiders Deference to Executive Agencies
Joe Selvaggi engages in a conversation with legal scholar Ilya Shapiro from the Manhattan Institute regarding the Loper Bright Enterprises Supreme Cou...
Episode 184: Harvard’s Sullied Halo: Journalists Teach Lesson on Plagiarism
Joe Selvaggi talks with investigative reporter Chris Brunet about his role investigating and exposing former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s academic...
Episode 183: Drug Discount Distortions: How Middlemen Increase Costs and Reduce Access
Joe Selvaggi talks with Drs. Bill Smith and Robert Popovian about how the complex system of rebates from drug companies to insurance firms serve to in...
Boston’s Building Bargain: Coaxing Commercial Conversions to Condos
Joe Selvaggi discusses the strategic goals of Boston's Downtown Office to Residential Conversion Pilot Program with Arthur Jemison, the head of BPDA p...
Episode 181 SCOTUS Wealth Tax: Are Appreciated Assets Income?
Episode 181 SCOTUS Wealth Tax: Are Appreciated Assets Income? by Pioneer Institute
Episode 180: Busting Big Business: Antitrust Comes for Google and Big Sandwich.
Episode 180: Busting Big Business: Antitrust Comes for Google and Big Sandwich. by Pioneer Institute
Episode 179 Supreme Oral Arguments: Do Gun Rights Rest on Responsible Behavior
Joe Selvaggi engages in a conversation with constitutional scholar Attorney Clark Neily to explore the oral arguments presented in the US Supreme Cour...