Your host Richard Morrison welcomes back guest co-host Jeremy Lott and special guest Greg Conko for Episode 47. We start with the new Obama-Geithner plan for expanding regulation of financial markets, the protests over the disputed presidential election in Iran and the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation of telemarketing robocalls. We then move on to the “beer bikes” of Amsterdam and some potentially scandalous investment choices made by Sen. Dick Durban. Finally, we talk health care with CEI Senior Fellow Greg…

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On a day when government takes a large stake in the financial markets, we should be aware that all sorts of organizations are trying to expand their reach and tell us what to do and think. As well as the Feds, the seemingly innocuous Better Business Bureau may be about to revise what Better Business means. Rick Berman explains:

Instead of giving businesses a pass or fail rating, it would implement a new system in which businesses are graded A-F. There…

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