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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.
Charles Blahous: Medicaid Reform HCN PODCAST: Benjamin Domenech interviews Medicare Trustee Charles Blahous of the Mercatus Center about his Medicaid reform.	James Taylor: Is Climate Change a real danger? Part 2 ECN PODCAST: Is Climate Change a real danger? James Taylor speaks with Mike Segial about the human affect on the environment. Part 2 of a 2 part interview.