Economics

Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft present episode #155 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from the Media Research Center, the Illinois Policy Institute, the Mackinac Center, and the Manhattan Institute.

After the collapse of communism in the 1990s, there was confidence that democracy had won and the market economy had shown its superiority to government planning.

The world last week was rightly agog when Tech uber-giant Apple became the first company on the planet ever to top a $1 trillion market cap.

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Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft present episode #150 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Reason, the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, and the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.

In May, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted to tax large, local businesses — such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Starbucks — $275 per employee annually.

Toys ‘R’ Us got royally screwed by online retail monster Amazon.

A Supreme Court case to be decided by the end of June could require California residents to pay taxes to a variety states, counties, cities and even mosquito abatement districts across the country.

Despite coughing up reams of information about themselves in exchange for often minimal benefits, consumers are now suddenly concerned about their privacy. 

As states compete to attract new residents and increase their tax bases, two very different strategies have come to the forefront.

To the detriment of its residents and businesses, Seattle has been more active than any other city in pursuing new tax revenue.

To reduce school violence, we must address its actual cause.

Amazing growth – while protecting environment, health and welfare from actual threats.