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Patrick Barron: The Simplicity of Sound Money BTN PODCAST: In May, banking industry consultant Patrick Barron will be addressing the European Parliament and lobbying for Germany to exit the Eurozone, reestablish the Deutsche Mark as its official currency, and back it with physical gold. He joins us to discuss the virtues of sound money.	Herb Walberg: Education and Capitalism SRN PODCAST: Capitalism once did a superior job providing K-12 schooling in the United States, and would do so once again if the public could overcome its fear of markets and economics, wrote Herbert Walberg and Joe Bast in their book, Education and Capitalism. It’s the book's ten-year anniversary, so Walberg joins the podcast to discuss these concepts and how they have matured in the past decade. He’s the chairman of Heartland’s board and member of the Hoover Institution’s Koret Taskforce on K-12 education at Stanford University. We talk about the moral case for free-market education, common myths about capitalism and education, and how free markets mean parents and kids get more "bang for the buck" out of schools.
Jacob Hornberger: Crisis in Cyprus Holds Lessons for Americans BTN PODCAST: Future of Freedom Foundation President Jacob Hornberger discusses the lessons Americans should take from the banking bailout crisis in Cyprus. "If we continue traveling this road, we're going to be looking at things like this, where the government is confiscating deposits or taking people's IRA accounts, as the Argentine government did under similar circumstances."	Hester Peirce: Dodd-Frank: What It Does and Why It's Flawed. FIRE PODCAST: Jim Lakely and Matthew Glans speak with Hester Peirce, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University about the Dodd-Frank Act, its effects on the economy and her new book, Dodd-Frank: What It Does and Why It's Flawed.
Daniel Simmons: Renewable Power Mandates ECN PODCAST: Daniel Simmons of the Institute for Energy Research explains how renewable power mandates are driving up electricity prices.	Robert Romano: US Government's Already Taking Money from Savings Accounts FIRE PODCAST: After several days of protest by residents of Cyprus, the government there has voted against confiscating money from bank savings accounts to help fund a bailout of Cypriot banks. The US government is already doing essentially what the Cyprus government rejected, just in a more subtle and nuanced way, says Robert Romano of American's for Limited Government.