Economics

Gloomy forecasts are becoming ubiquitous, lending credence to the view that economics is the dismal science.

We have two very recent, polar-opposite visual aides on how government should approach policy – so as to elicit private sector growth.

The stock market has been soaring, unemployment is low, and there is some improvement in wages and corporate earnings, though significantly less than from other recession recoveries.

America’s improvement in global economic competitiveness is due to Trump’s reversal of Obama’s failed economic policies.

Donny Kendal is without John Nothdurft in episode #160 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from The Heartland Institute, Truth In Accounting, Illinois Policy Institute, Mercatus Center, Tax Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts.

Bad economics can bring about or grow out of bad politics. But the question is, what are bad economics and bad politics?

It is quite rich for the previous administration to try now to take credit for an economic recovery Americans can finally feel after years of Obama and Biden declaring a “Recovery Summer” that never came.

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.

Network Neutrality is absolutely awful policy. It is a huge government imposition on the entirety of the Internet. It has zero business being even considered – by any nation laying even the remotest claim to being a free market economy.

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.

During Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, he made advancing American manufacturing a foundation of his economic platform and promised to reduce the sector’s federal regulatory burden.

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.

Opioid abuse is taking a tremendous toll on America, with 42,000 opioid-related deaths in 2016.