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Les Sterman, chief supervisor of construction and works for the Southwestern Illinois Flood Prevention District Council, is the guest on this week’s podcast to talk with host Arin Greenwood about Metro East’s levees, and what is standing in the way of making them safer. Listen to the podcast here, or download it in iTunes.
Law firm management consultant Peter Giuliani, a partner at Smock Law Firm Consulting, is on this week’s FIRE podcast to talk with host Arin Greenwood about a recent lawsuit challenging rules that prohibit non-lawyers from owning law firms. Listen to the podcast here, or download it in iTunes (and feel free to subscribe to the [...]
The DC Lottery is getting into the online poker business – within three months, if things go as expected, DC-based players will have access to low-stakes online poker and online blackjack, among other games. Should the DC Lottery be worried that the DOJ will be coming for it for violating UIGEA? Not if it’s careful.
National Underwriter’s publication Property Casualty 360 has a pretty terrific slideshow on Heartland’s recently-released 2011 Property and Casualty Insurance Report Card. (Recall, the Report Card asks two simple, fundamental questions about America’s system of state insurance regulation: 1. How free are consumers to choose the property and casualty insurance products they want?, and 2. How [...]
This week’s FIRE podcast features urban homesteader Erik Knutzen, who blogs about urban homesteading at Root Simple, and co-wrote The Urban Homestead (Expanded and Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (2008) and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World (2011). Listen to the podcast here, or [...]
The people of Metro East, Illinois, are fighting FEMA’s decision to deaccredit their levees. Is there anything to their fight that the free marketers and the environmentalists would agree with? It turns out there is.
OOTS is ready for a vacation. Let’s take a gander at some of our favorite hurricane-resistant abodes.
Association of Bermuda Insurers & Reinsurers president Brad Kading has an op-ed in Business Insurance on Japan’s problematic protectionist insurance regulations, and why it’s important to encourage the international spreading of reinsurance risk: Because Japan’s catastrophe insurance regulation restricts the role of foreign reinsurers, reinsurers probably will cover a much smaller proportion of the losses [...]
Patrick Cox, CEO of Tax Masters, is on this week’s FIRE podcast to talk with host Arin Greenwood about the Government Accountability Office’s recent finding that at least 3700 contractors and nonprofit groups collecting federal stimulus funds owe sine $750 million in back taxes – and why this finding isn’t as scandalous as it sounds. [...]
Mark Partridge, an economist at Ohio State University, is on the FIRE podcast this week to talk with host Arin Greenwood about “The Winners’ Choice: Sustainable Economic Strategies for Successful 21st Century Regions,” a new paper in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy in which he and co-author M. Rose Olfert argue for economic cooperation, rather [...]
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