Qualified Opinions
Hosted by Veronique de Rugy · Veronique de Rugy
5.0from 18 ratings
- 65
- Episodes
- 19
- Transcribed
- 18
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Qualified Opinions
Qualified Opinions is an intellectual salon that illuminates the challenges facing free markets, liberalism, and the political climate of today. Join host Veronique de Rugy, a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center, and her guests for enlightening discourse. Qualified Opinions is a production of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER).
- Publisher
- Veronique de Rugy
- Category
- government · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Mar 2024
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
19 of 65 episodes have a transcript.
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Roundtable: Tariffs, Populist Handouts, and the AI Safety Panic
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why the Right Forgot Its Own Best Arguments
28 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The House Always Wins: Roger Bate on Sports Betting, Addiction, and the Fauci Reckoning
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Roundtable: Tariffs, Populist Handouts, and the AI Safety Panic
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And actually, with Congress not voting through the Clarity Act, this adds a lot more uncertainty into their industry. Same with AI. They're saying we would like more certainty in this industry. We'd like to go to the government and partner with them. Right. Very convenient. What is this going to be detrimental to? It's going to be detrimental to a lot of the open source models. Right. They don't have the point, though. Isn't that that's exactly what I'm saying. That's exactly what I'm saying. So you have these top CEOs building the they are engaged in regulatory capture and they're raising the barrier to entry for all these open source models who are going to make it it's going to make it almost impossible to compete with them. […]
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- David Hebert
- Julia Cartwright
- Thomas Savidge
- Stephanie Slade
- Roger Bate
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 15 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 3 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 43 / 100
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- Quality
- 55
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 77
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