Join your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist this week for an election roundup featuring Barack Obama, John McCain, Ralph Nader, Bob Barr, and some guy named Chuck Baldwin. We revisit the status of our friend Ted Stevens and his possible successor (could it be Sarah Palin?) and ask why Missouri can’t seem to get its electoral act together. We continue on to the auto bailout, First amendment news from Utah, special guest Jonathan Tolman and some very timely, politically tinged Olympic News.

Join your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist this week as we take on election day madness, the tradition of Guy Fawkes Day, campaign sabotage, the ghost of the Fairness Doctrine, how the coming depression is actually a minor recession, why the Department of Justice can’t help itself from destroying American tech companies and a special public service edition of Olympic news.

Your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist discuss the looming presidential election, Halloween, the conviction of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, the continuing economic unease, tough times for the U.S. Postal Service, American companies react to Internet censorship abroad, Cox’s new wireless service, Microsoft’s new web-based OS Azure, and all the finest Olympic News.

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This week we cover everything from the Twitter revolution and falling oil prices to Sen. Ted Stevens’ corruption trial and Iain Murray’s Fannie-fueled cyber-fight with Matt Yglesias. Also listen for new audio effects created by LibertyWeek Technical Producer Ryan Young.

My guest co-host William Yeatman and I discuss with John how excess regulation, the Federal Reserve, failed housing programs, government sponsored enterprises, and corruption brought Wall Street to its knees.  The three of us come away from the interview with a different conclusion than the mainstream media.  Rather than labeling the meltdown as a failure of the free market, we showed that there wasn’t all that much freedom in the housing market to begin with.  This lack of freedom was the real problem.

Episode 9 runs about 42 minutes and covers a slew of other stories.  You can subscribe to our podcast on iTunes or using RSS.

• The “meltdown” on Wall Street
• Hurricane Ike
• Nancy Pelosi’s opposition to offshore drilling
• The War on Bottled Water™
• A breakthrough for Paralympic athletes

Also, this week we have Radu Burnete (our Romanian intern) joining us to consider how European Union rules have made short cucumbers, uncurved bananas and unpasteurized cheese crimes against the people.