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Ken Peterson Discusses “What Does It Cost?” on The John Curley Show

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
May 7, 2026}

Filmmaker and businessman Ken Peterson appeared on The John Curley Show on Monday, May 4, to discuss the findings of his 2025 documentary, “What Does It Cost?” Peterson explained that the net-zero plans in Washington State and Oregon would cost $1 trillion and that the results on global temperature would be “imperceptible and unmeasurable.” “Nowadays, everybody and their brother is talking about affordability,” Peterson told Curley, “…but then, somehow or other, the legislature passes policies that are antithetical to affordability.” Haven’t seen the documentary yet? Watch it here: …

Mamdani Ignores New York City Homelessness

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
May 4, 2026}

Despite his campaign promise to end homeless encampment sweeps, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reinstated them. Filmmaker SIX SEVEN KEVIN takes to the streets of New York City, asking business owners, residents, and homeless individuals themselves about how the mayor has been handling the homelessness crisis. …

HB 2266: Call Your Legislator Today

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty and Marsha Michaelis
March 2, 2026}

More than 20,000 people are living on the streets in Washington state, most of them suffering from an untreated mental illness and/or drug addiction. HB 2266 is currently moving through the Washington State legislature to make it easier to develop subsidized housing and emergency shelters in the style of the failed Housing First policy. This bill would override local ordinances and zoning laws, put residents in real danger of increased crime and lawlessness, and leave the homeless housed but without the real help they need. “It is good to want to help them,” says Discovery Institute Project Coordinator and Research Fellow Marsha Michaelis. “Wanting to help people is good. Wanting to make sure that no one is free to disagree with your particular idea about how to help …

Why Utilities Cost More: Oregon’s Net Zero

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
January 8, 2026}

Discovery Institute recently partnered with Angela Todd of PDXReal in Portland, Oregon, to examine the catastrophic impacts of Net Zero policies bearing down on Washington and Oregon. See her latest report. For more information on net zero policies in the Pacific Northwest, and their harmful consequences, please see: Our 2024 report, “The Crippling Costs of Electrification and Net Zero Energy Policies in the Pacific Northwest“ Filmmaker Ken Peterson’s documentary, “What Does It Cost?“ …

Robert Marbut Defends Trump’s Homeless Executive Order on Chris Cuomo’s Show

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty and Robert Marbut
July 28, 2025}

Dr. Robert Marbut appeared on NewsNation with host Chris Cuomo to discuss President Trump’s “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” Executive Order. Dr. Marbut explains how this Order will serve the street-level homeless community, how harm reduction and Housing First failed, and the importance of focusing on treatment and recovery. …

Robert Marbut Talks New Homelessness Executive Order on News Nation

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty and Robert Marbut
July 25, 2025}

Robert Marbut appeared on News Nation this afternoon to discuss President Trump’s new “ENDING CRIME AND DISORDER ON AMERICA’S STREETS” Executive Order. Marbut highlights the importance of funding drug addiction treatment, bunks the myth that the homeless will be thrown into jail, and discusses the reasons behind involuntary commitment. …

Ken Peterson Talks with Brandi Kruse About “What Does It Cost?” Documentary

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
June 6, 2025}

In April, Ken Peterson appeared on Divided’s Sundays with Subscribers, hosted by Brandi Kruse. In this teaser, Peterson and Kruse discuss the land mass that wind and solar would require in the Pacific Northwest and the infinitesimal effects net zero energy policies will have on global climate. To watch the full interview, subscribe to Brandi Kruse’s Patreon account. Watch “What Does It Cost?” below: …

Dr. Robert Marbut and Billy Baldwin Talk with Megyn Kelly About Fentanyl Film

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty and Robert Marbut
April 30, 2025}

On National Fentanyl Awareness Day, Senior Fellow Dr. Robert Marbut appeared on The Megyn Kelly Show alongside actor Billy Baldwin to discuss their new documentary, “Fentanyl: Death Incorporated.” They talk about the lethality of fentanyl, where fentanyl is coming from and how it is getting across U.S. borders, and the legal and social difficulties of getting people into treatment. Find out more about “Fentanyl: Death Incorporated” at fentanyldeathincorporated.com. …

What Does It Cost?

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 23, 2025}

Lawmakers in Oregon and Washington State have passed ambitious legislation to combat climate change, aiming to eliminate fossil fuels and rely solely on zero-emission electricity sources, such as solar and wind, by 2040 and 2045, respectively. In this documentary, Ken Peterson explores the devastating economic consequences of this legislation. He explains that electricity prices will increase to exorbitant rates, that the demand for electricity will exceed the abilities of the electrical grid, and that the resulting decrease in global temperature would only be 0.003 ⁰C. What Does It Cost? draws heavily from a report by Jonathan Lesser and Mitch Rolling: “The Crippling Costs of Electrification and Net Zero Energy Policies in the Pacific Northwest.“ Read the …

Dr. Robert Marbut and Billy Baldwin Talk Fentanyl Doc with Brian Kilmeade

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty and Robert Marbut
March 7, 2025}

Senior Fellow Dr. Robert Marbut and actor Billy Baldwin appeared on Fox News Radio’s Brian Kilmeade Show to discuss their new documentary, Fentanyl: Death Incorporated. Marbut and Baldwin discuss how they got involved with the creation of the documentary, the origin of the fentanyl crisis, and the scope of the problem. “The stat that really brings it home,” says Marbut, “ more people have died of fentanyl in the last five years than the last hundred years of war for Americans.” (Segment begins at 49:15.) Find out more about Fentanyl: Death Incorporated, and where you can watch it, at fentanyldeathincorporated.com. …

Robert Marbut Discusses Seattle’s Homelessness Crisis on the John Curley Show

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
January 17, 2025}

In Seattle, the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness is on track to double in just the next three years. Robert Marbut appeared on KIRO Newsradio’s John Curley Show to discuss the policies that have exacerbated the crisis and the solutions available to the city and county. Discovery Institute released a report last November detailing our policy recommendations for the city of Seattle to curb their homelessness crisis. Read the Report …

Jonathan Lesser Discusses Devastating Net-Zero Policies with Brandi Kruse

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 1, 2024}

Jonathan Lesser appeared on Brandi Kruse’s Divided podcast as her “Sundays with Subscribers” guest to discuss the devastating consequences of net-zero policies in the Pacific Northwest. A recent report authored by Lesser and Mitchell Rolling revealed that net-zero energy policies in Washington State and Oregon will produce staggering costs to individuals and businesses without providing any meaningful environmental benefits. You can watch a portion of the interview on the September 24th episode of Divided above (starting at 19:45), or you can view the entire “Sundays with Subscribers” episode by subscribing to Brandi Kruse’s Divided Patreon. …

Robert Marbut Discusses Grants Pass v. Johnson on [un]Divided with Brandi Kruse

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
July 22, 2024}

On unDivided, hosted by Brandi Kruse, Robert Marbut discusses what Grants Pass v. Johnson means for cities and their homeless populations, what cities like Seattle and San Francisco need to do, and the importance of investing in treatment for mental illness and drug addiction, and the reality behind Housing First.

Through Hayek and Beyond

_{Donald Devine
November 20, 2023}

eorge Gilder has been a front-line conservative thinker at least since his 1979 Sexual Suicide. He had an international bestseller in 1981 with Wealth and Poverty (a Ronald Reagan favorite), and his 2013 Knowledge and Power defended an information theory of capitalism that was critical to the underpinnings of my last book in the same genre. He has now surpassed himself with the blockbuster Life after Capitalism.

Superabundance on PragerU

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
January 30, 2023}

There are now eight billion people living on the planet. Is there enough room for all of us? Are we going to run out of food and other resources? Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Gale Pooley's co-author Marian Tupy, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses their new book Superabundance and examines whether or not these fears are valid. His answer may surprise you.

Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
May 31, 2022}

Authors Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, and Elizabeth Ames provide insights from their hot-off-the-press new book, Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It.

George Gilder Interview: Can Gold and Blockchain Fix a Broken Monetary System?

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
August 7, 2021}

Discovery Institute Co-founder George Gilder was interviewed at this year's FreedomFest about the "need to establish a ground state for the world economy, which will bring gold back into play through the expression of money as time."

Christopher Rufo Discusses Critical Race Theory with Allie Stuckey

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
January 19, 2021}

Director of Discovery's Institute's Center on Wealth & Poverty Christopher Rufo joined Allie Stuckey of Blaze TV to explain what's going on with racial indoctrination in public schools and the Marxist roots of these new curriculums.

Chloé Valdary with Chris Rufo on Critical Race Theory

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
December 8, 2020}

Chris Rufo in conversation with Chloé Valdary, founder of Theory of Enchantment, a substantive alternative to critical race theory-based training programs. Together, they debate the arguments for and against critical race theory, discuss President Trump's executive order, and take questions from the audience.

Debunking Critical Race Theory With Chris Rufo

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 30, 2020}

Chris Rufo Talks at length with Tim Poole about Critical Race Theory and the process that led to President Donald Trump's executive order banning Federal funding of programs that include "offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating".