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Is the Solyndra Scandal Obama's Watergate?

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets091211.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss Europe’s tanking markets, the opposition to Obama’s call for a payroll tax

DHS: No Return to Pre-9/11 Freedom. Ever.

Looking back over the last 10 years and thinking about where many of us were and how we felt when the towers fell is surreal. These are sad thoughts. But what I find even more saddening is the fact that

How to Avoid Collegiate Indoctrination

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets090711.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Lee Doren’s new book, Please Enroll Responsibly: Avoiding Indoctrination at College, concerning how best to avoid

Labor Complains About the Business Climate They Created

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets090511.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss complaints by big labor’s James P. Hoffa about the patriotism of American

Dismal Unemployment Numbers Send Markets Tumbling

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets090211.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the dismal unemployment figures for August, the possibility of QE 3 and

David Bernstein Talks About Rehabilitating Lochner

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets083111.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Professor David Bernstein to discuss the his new book, Rehabilitating Lochner, and how the curbing of

Did Obama Ask Warren Buffett to Bailout Bank of America?

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets082611.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss Hurricane Irene, Warren Buffett’s mysteriously timed investment in Bank of America, and

How Long Until the Next Recession?

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets082211.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss how the upheaval in Libya and the Euro Bond debate will effect

How FDR's Legacy Damaged the American Economy

[audio:http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets081711.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Hillsdale professor and author Burt Folsom joins Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry to discuss his book, New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy

Warren Buffet Wants to Pay More Taxes

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets081511.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the proposed “Department of Jobs,” and Warren Buffett’s plea to the government

The Waning Influence of the Fed

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets081211.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the European credit crisis, the possibility of a QE 3 and Obama’s

EPA Meddling Could Cost Thousands of Jobs

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets081111.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Elizabeth Blackney are joined by Kathleen Hartnett White to discuss the regulation happy EPA, their new rules on cross-border pollution and

The Media's Institutional Liberalism

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets081011.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Tim Groseclose to discuss the his new book, Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the

How Democracies Keep the Peace

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets080311.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Charles Lipson to discuss why democracies don’t fight one another and how trust and transparency allows

Putting 'Big Oil' to Rights

“Big Oil” has taken a public relations pounding. After all, the industry is thoroughly protected and its profits guaranteed out of necessity of the market. With the economy tanking and the government unable to do anything except make matters worse,

Ignore the Media Spin, We Lost the Debt Ceiling Battle

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets111510.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the McConnell – Obama debt deal, how we got screwed, and the weak GDP report.

Review: 'Death by China-Confronting the Dragon'

There has been nothing more cowardly in my lifetime than the American government’s dysfunctional response to the economic imperialism of China. The Chinese have shown a unique political sophistication in co-opting the elites of big corporate America with crony business

The Debt Ceiling Debacle and Who's to Blame

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets072911.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the crumbling “Boehner Plan” in the House, how Obama may circumvent it,

Review: 'Friends with Benefits' Has Its Perks

In the same week that a trailer for a reboot of the “Spider-Man” franchise was released, a franchise that had its last outing in theaters a mere four years ago, a new movie arrived in theaters about two friends who