Podcast 168

A street level live podcast updating top stories. Many people listen to podcasts while driving, so why not do a live podcast from the driver’s seat? Join Bob Davis as he rolls across the metro on his way to the bank. President Obama is in town, eating Juicy Loosey’s and talking about the economy. Despite the president’s taste for Matt’s burgers, restaurants in Minnesota say increases in the minimum wage will cause them to raise prices. In other parts of the country, restaurants and other small businesses are finding ObamaCare to be a particularly sticky wicket when it comes to insuring their employees, versus the cost. The Speaker of The House gets ready to sue the executive branch and a top senator says if Attorney General Holder doesn’t appoint a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of the lost Lois Lerner emails, he should be impeached. Now suddenly the EPA seems to have the same problem; losing emails, which allegedly show wrong doing, and that congress seems to be interested in.  Plus, are government agencies that produce the economic numbers cooking the books? Throw in hot yoga, memories of trips to the Dairy Queen and some Somali women, and you’ve got a story to tell!  Sponsored by X Government Cars! 

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Podcast 148

Memorial Day Weekend Update. It is memorial day weekend, which usually means a long drive back from the lake. Since The Bob Davis Podcasts normally updates listeners on the key stories of the coming week on Sunday night/Monday morning, this podcast is all ready for the drive home. On the US Economy, the story line has been ‘winter’ since the northern tier of the US went into a deep freeze last December. Now ‘suddenly’ and ‘unexpectedly’ retailers aren’t meeting goals and consumers aren’t very confident. The expected ‘rebound’ from winter’s woes hasn’t materialized. What’s happening. Is inflation taking its toll, or is it deflation? Why is the price of fuel and food going up? The darling of the left, Thomas Piketty is on the hot seat for … some pretty serious mistakes in his modeling. Turns out ‘inequality’ may not be as bad as he thought it might be. The President went to Afghanistan as a prelude to a week of trying to defend and take back the high ground on his foreign policy, while democrats call him detached, flat footed and incompetent. Sponsored by Baklund R&D. 

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Podcast 140

Top stories update. Get connected on breaking news as the week begins. Almost 5 billion dollars given to states to research and create health care exchanges, and already half a billion has been wasted on wash out health exchanges in Massachusetts, Oregon, Nevada and Maryland. Also on the problem list? Hawaii and Minnesota. Brings new meaning to the phrase ‘throwing money down a rat hole”. What has 100 billion dollars in debts and a failing business model? Why the US Post Office, that’s what. The poster children for why central – or federal – government funded programs are a mistake. Amtrak, the US Post Office and of course Obama Care. Meanwhile, more companies are fleeing the high tax, heavily regulated environments in California … and the United States … and England benefits. Who won the revolution? As the Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi incident and its coverup by the White House is empaneled, the left wing media suddenly starts talking about the potential impeachment of President Obama. Is it a good idea politically? And, if Pope Francis doesn’t like Harvard’s Black Mass, why is he listening to the Devil on economic policy? Sponsored by Ryan Plumbing and Heating of Saint Paul.

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