John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #97 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Mercatus Center, The Heartland Institute, and the Center of the American Experiment.

Examples of government control over social and economic life are as old as recorded history, and they always have features that are universal in their perverse effects regardless of time or place.

If the government dictates an increase in the cost of labor, employers have two options. They can raise prices, or they can try to get by with fewer workers. 

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #95 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute.

Stories this week shed light on the often hidden high costs of both private sector (sort of private sector at least) and public sector efforts to promote renewable energy to fight climate change. Research shows climate commitments impose high energy costs on ratepayers and make the business climate less competitive — both trends that will only get worse if states pursue Paris. 

Whatever economic freedom we enjoy in the world today is due, to a great extent, to the ideas and efforts of the classical liberals and economists of the first half of the nineteenth century.

We just narrowly escaped the cronyism-infested eight years of the Barack Obama Administration. If you were a Leftist – the $4-trillion-per-year-government world was your oyster. The biggest bureaucratic favors of your wildest imaginings – were only a campaign contribution away.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #92 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the John Locke Foundation, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, and the Cato Institute.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #90 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Center of the American Experiment, the Mercatus Center, and Empire Center.

Genetski’s book takes a deep dive into the economic data of the last 120 years to identify the policies that encourage economic growth and prosperity, and which ones lead to stagnation and a worsening of the human condition.

Will Greece avoid financial disaster one more time by somehow pulling one more rabbit out of a hat? It seems unlikely, but we shall know fairly soon

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #86 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from OpentheBooks.com, the Washington Policy Center, and The Heritage Foundation.

When now-President Donald Trump first burst onto the political scene, one of the ways he made a name for himself was by ridiculing many of the trade deals the United States has spent the last several decades cutting.