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Michael Schaus
Communications Director
Michael Schaus is communications director at the Nevada Policy Research Institute and is responsible for managing the organization’s messaging with the public, the media and NPRI’s membership. He is also currently a policy advisor for the Heartland Institute.Prior to joining NPRI, Michael worked in media as a national columnist, a political humorist and a radio talk show host in Denver, Colorado. Active in both print and radio, he shared his insights and free-market economics perspective with large local and national audiences.
Michael became interested in economic theory earlier in life while employed in the financial sector. As the liaison between a local community bank and the Federal Reserve, he acquired an in-depth understanding of just how manipulative big government can be toward industry and enterprise. It was that experience with big-government intervention that initially led him into public-affairs commentary.
Episode 19: Free market experiment or more repackaged cronyism?
Free to Offend Episode 19 | Guest: Greg Brooks When Governor Steve Sisolak announced his plans for an “innovation zone” that would essentially give a blockchain company the ability to…
Episode 18: Sisolak Tyranny Report
Free to Offend Episode 18 | Guest: Robert Fellner At what point does the “emergency” that ostensibly justifies Governor Steve Sisolak’s one-man-rule of Nevada no longer qualify as…
Episode 17: Equity, equality, fairness and other useless terms
Free to Offend Episode 17 | Guest: Dan Mitchell, Chairman of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity What is more important: “equitable outcomes” or “equal opportunity.” …
Episode 16: Waste time on Reddit and become a millionaire?
Free to Offend Episode 16 | Guest: Paul Dykewicz When a handful of social media users on Reddit decided to take on Wall Street hedge funds, no one was…
Episode 15: Legislative preview with Dr. Robin Titus
Free to Offend Episode 15 | Guest: Assembly Minority Leader Dr. Robin Titus What metric will the GOP use to gauge their success as the minority party in…
Be optimistic: The world as we know it is ending
So, this decade didn’t really start off on the right foot. In the span of three months, we went from happily ringing in the 2020 New Year with friends and…
Episode 14: Legislative preview for small businesses
Free to Offend Episode 14 | Guest: Randi Thompson, state director for NFIB Government lobbyists, public sector unions and political insiders are gearing up for Nevada’s 2021 Legislative…
Episode 13: Pre-legislative update with Annie Black
Free to Offend Episode 13 Freshman member of the state assembly, Annie Black, joins the podcast to discuss her plans for the 2021 legislative session. Nevada…
Episode 12: Our broken politics in a post-2020 world
Free to Offend Episode 12 The politics of coronavirus are going to make 2021 a very interesting year. Senior editor for National Review, Ramesh Ponnuru,…