
In a special dispatch from CPAC, this week’s podcast features Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Director Eli Lehrer on a panel discussing the dangers of over-criminalization.

C-FIRE Deputy Director R.J. Lehmann talks with Sean Carr, senior reporter for SNL Financial, about a proposed HUD rule that could regulate practices by homeowners insurers.

C-FIRE Deputy Director R.J. Lehmann talks to Jack Nicholson, chief operating officer of the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, about funding challenges the Cat Fund faces and the potential for legislative change in 2012.

Ying Ma, a Heartland Institute policy advisor, interviews Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, about state capitalism and the global battle between the state and the free market.

C-FIRE Deputy Director R.J. Lehmann talks to Robert Detlefsen, vice president of public policy with the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, about the burgeoning market for third party-financed lawsuits.

C-FIRE Deputy Director R.J. Lehmann talks with Don Brown, senior fellow with The Heartland Institute, about Florida’s 2012 legislative session and the odds for significant insurance reform.

C-FIRE Deputy Director R.J. Lehmann talks with conservative journalist J.P. Freire about the White House’s appointment of Richard Cordray to head the CFPB.

C-FIRE Deputy Director R.J. Lehmann talks to Nicole Kurokawa Neily, executive director of the Independent Women’s Forum, about why taxes, regulation and economic freedom are women’s issues, as well.

C-FIRE Deputy Director R.J. Lehmann talks with Robert Hartwig, president and economist of the Insurance Information Institute, about the Eurozone crisis and its potential impacts for the insurance industry.

In this week’s podcast, we talk to George Mason University economist Alex Tabarrok about patent reform, problems in higher education and his new book, Launching the Innovation Renaissance.