Consumer Choice Radio: Ep. 1
Broadcast 11. January 2020 on The Big Talker 106.7FM.
Hosts: Yaël Ossowski & David Clement
Welcome to Consumer Choice Radio, a weekly conversation featuring the latest news, interviews, and expert analysis that covers consumer topics around the world.
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SHOWNOTES
- HARM REDUCTION
- Views of the 2020 Democratic Candidates
- Andrew Yang Calls for Regulating ‘Wild West’ E-Cigarette Industry
- Elizabeth Warren
- Joe Biden: “I’d eliminate vaping”
- Says he’s make it broader than Trump’s ban
- Bernie Sanders: “Vaping is not so good for your health. We gotta shut the industry down”
- Sanders calls for vaping industry shutdown, then walks it back
- Michael Bloomberg
- Two Old Guys Reveal They Know Nothing About Vaping
- Voters asked Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden about vapes last weekend. They didn’t seem to know what they were talking about.
- Leafly: At year’s end, time to ask: Why did the CDC ignore vaping evidence?
- If 2019 was the year of the vaping health crisis, 2020 will be a year of reckoning. The first question that must be asked is this: Why did American public health officials fail so spectacularly?
- Matthew Myers, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids in 2014
- “E-cigarettes could benefit the public health if in fact they help people quit smoking”
- Your employer should stay out of your private life, including nicotine use
- Last week, the truck-rental company U-Haul announced it would stop hiring smokers in the 21 states where it is legal to take nicotine use into consideration when making hiring decisions.
- Trump’s Vape Pod Flavor Ban is Just Another New Year’s Hangover
- As millions of Americans awoke on New Year’s Day, we learned the Trump Administration and the FDA will soon present a ban on all flavors except tobacco and menthol in pod-based vaping devices.
- Views of the 2020 Democratic Candidates
- TRADE
- American Consumers, Not China, Are Paying for Trump’s Tariffs
- New York Fed and academic researchers found that U.S. consumers and companies have borne the brunt of the president’s trade war.
- Wine Business Fears a Possible Disaster in Potential Trump Tariffs
- A move meant to impose pain on the European Union may jeopardize many American jobs and businesses while putting popular wines out of reach.
- American Consumers, Not China, Are Paying for Trump’s Tariffs
- SMART CANNABIS POLICY
- West Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Jody Murphy: Legalize and tax marijuana, and then fund health care with that revenue
- “It is time to fully legalize the marijuana, cannabis and hemp industry in West Virginia. We need to legalize the growth, cultivation, sale, possession and use of cannabis — both medicinal and recreational.”
- Canada’s Cannabis Rules Are Too Strict
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The fact that cannabis marketing and branding regs are almost as strict as tobacco is mind boggling and horrendously inconsistent
— David Clement (@ClementLiberty) January 3, 2020
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- West Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Jody Murphy: Legalize and tax marijuana, and then fund health care with that revenue
- UPZONING AND MARKET URBANISM
- Ending single-family zoning expands freedom and choice
- A bedrock principle of conservatism is that individuals should be allowed to live as they please free from the overly meddlesome dictates of regulators. Another conservative mainstay is a belief in property rights – the right to do largely what we choose in our homes and on our land. When it comes to zoning issues, however, many conservatives have become “but” heads. They believe in freedom and markets, “but” not in their neighborhoods.
- Unjust Deserts
- Cities move to ban dollar stores, blaming them for residents’ poor diets.
- Ending single-family zoning expands freedom and choice
- 21DEMOCRACY
- CLIMATE CHANGE
- Nord stream2: US greenlights sanctions on mega Russia-EU gas pipeline, but it’s probably too late
- The annually-set NDAA is also significant for Europe’s energy scene, however, as the 2020 bill also contains provisions to impose sanctions on companies installing deep sea pipelines for Russia’s $10.5 billion Nord Stream 2 (NS2) gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany (via the Baltic Sea).
- Big Little Lies Season 2
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Big Little Lies season 2…
— Yaël Ossowski (@YaelOss) January 2, 2020
a 2nd grader has an anxiety attack
her teacher said climate change means the Apocalypse and we’re all doomed.
no doubt this has happened IRL.
maybe “12 years before the Earth is ruined” is the wrong message to teach kids?
I don’t know tho 🤷♂️
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- Nord stream2: US greenlights sanctions on mega Russia-EU gas pipeline, but it’s probably too late
- TECH FREEDOM
- Forbes: Dawn of a Decade: The Top Ten Tech Policy Issues for the 2020s
- 1. Sustainability – Tech’s role in the race to address climate change
- 2. Defending Democracy – International threats and internal challenges
- 3. Journalism – Technology needs to give the news business a boost
- 4. Privacy in an AI Era – From the second wave to the third
- 5. Data and National Sovereignty – Economics meet geopolitics
- 6. Digital Safety – The need to constantly battle evolving threats
- 7. Internet Inequality – A world of haves and have-nots
- 8. A Tech Cold War – Will we see a digital iron curtain down the Pacific?
- 9. Ethics for Artificial Intelligence – Humanity needs to govern machines
- 10. Jobs and Income Inequality in an AI Economy – How will the world manage a disruptive decade?
- Forbes: Dawn of a Decade: The Top Ten Tech Policy Issues for the 2020s
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- CONSUMER CULTURE
- Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America
- CONSUMER CULTURE
- CONSUMER CHOICE CENTER MEDIA HITS
- 1828 (Maria Chaplia)
- Miami Herald (Yaël Ossowski)
- Los Angeles Daily News (Yaël Ossowski)
- New Zealand Dominion Post (David Clement)
- Spiked (Bill Wirtz)
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Bill Wirtz)
