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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Elizabeth Blackney and Benjamin Domenech walk through the latest poll numbers for Barack Obama. Hint: They’re really, really bad.

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NBC/WSJ Poll (PDF)
WaPo/ABC News Poll
The Atlantic: The Freelance Revolution
Hoffa: “Let’s take the sons of bitches out.”

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Hillsdale professor and author Burt Folsom joins Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry to discuss his book, New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

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Buy the Book: New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
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Mackinac Institute
Hillsdale College

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, as oil and gas executives testify on Capitol Hill, we’ll discuss what’s driving gas prices and other environmental issues with James Taylor of the Heartland Institute.

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James Taylor at Forbes
Bloomberg: Consumer Comfort Declines as Gas Prices Rise
WSJ: In Washington, Oil CEOs on the Hot Seat
Environment and Climate News

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, we’re talking commodities, the debt ceiling, and the unemployment rate with Francis Cianfrocca.

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WSJ: Unemployment Rate Rises
Bloomberg: Trichet on ECB and Inflation
Gokhale: Why We Must Freeze the Debt Limit
Harsanyi: What Debt Ceiling?

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, we’re joined by D.B. Grady, a correspondent for The Atlantic, author, paratrooper, and veteran of Afghanistan, to discuss the regional fallout from the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

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D.B. Grady’s Website
The Atlantic: Veteran’s Day
DC Examiner: Pakistan’s Role as Bin Laden’s Protector
RCW: Pakistan’s Osama Problem
RCW: In Osama’s Death, a Vindication of Obama’s Choices
RCW: Should Obama Have Captured Bin Laden?

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In American politics, all eyes this week have been turned toward Wisconsin, where the clash over the bargaining process and entitlements for public employee unions has sparked protests and legislator walkouts. Today on Coffee and Markets we’re talking with Mark Mix, head of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, about his views on the battle in Wisconsin and elsewhere over public employee unions. We also talk about Mitch Daniels’ surprising attitude towards right to work laws in Indiana.

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Mitch Daniels Salutes Dem Lawmakers Who Fled IN to Avoid Labor Vote
Indiana House Passes Right to Work Bill
Barone: Public Unions Force Taxpayers to Fund Democrats
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
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In Texas, where Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is retiring, we’re likely to see the biggest, most expensive Senate primary of the 2012 season. Today on Coffee and Markets we’re talking with Michael Williams, a candidate for the job, about what his priorities will be for the race, what he would bring to the Senate, and what role he thinks the Tea Party will play in the election.

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Michael Williams for Texas
Texas Tribune: A Conversation With Michael Williams
The Hill: Candidate Hopes Early Start Nets Him KBH Seat
Politics Daily: Cruz, Williams Battle for Conservatives
TNL: Cruz on His Race for the Senate in Texas
Michael Williams on Twitter

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Today we’re giving you a special advance preview of Monday’s Coffee and Markets with an interview with Elliott Abrams, a former senior national security adviser to George W. Bush and assistant secretary of state for Ronald Reagan. A leading expert on politics and the Middle East, we’ll ask him about what the future holds for Egypt, whether President Obama has had the right response to the crisis, and whether other nations will soon follow suit.

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Abrams: Bush Was Right About Freedom in the Arab World
Abrams: Lessons of January
Hamid: Obama Got Egypt Wrong
Muravchik: Three Scenarios in Egypt
RS: Egypt Approaches the Abyss
Abrams: Pressure Points Blog

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Throughout the month of December, Coffee and Markets will be looking back at the most significant stories of 2010 with recap interviews from leading thinkers. In today’s edition, Ben Domenech interviews Avik Roy, a health care analyst on Wall Street and author of The Apothecary blog, about how Obamacare effects pharmaceutical innovation.

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Pitts: Keeping the U.S. Lead in Medical Innovation
Podcast: The Market Case for Health Care
Roy: Why is the Pharma Pipeline Clogged?
Roy: The Fiscal Commission on Health Care Reform

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In today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Ben Domenech and Brad Jackson are joined by author, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times to discuss President Obama’s trip to India, the politics of California, and whether Howard Dean will challenge the president in 2012.

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Top of the Ticket
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