Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
CBO Report Shows Obamacare’s Economic Damage
Obama’s implied tax and subsidy penalties for success are so high that it won’t be worth a lower-income person’s effort to try to climb up the income ladder.
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Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
VID: Heartland’s Ben Domenech on MSNBC Talking Obamacare and Job Losses
Heartland Senior Fellow Benjamin Domenech was a guest Wednesday night on “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. Ben is rare among people who go on TV to talk: He actually endeavors to answer the questions he’s asked.
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State Dept: No Environmental Objection to Keystone XL Pipeline
I expect that President Obama doesn’t care about the politics, and it will come down to whether he wants to appease the greens or support labor unions who want the pipeline built.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Is This Any Way to Treat the Job Creators?
If Obama truly wanted to “create jobs and opportunities for the middle class,” he could tell the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to work with—instead of against—those ready to risk their capital in the development of our natural resources and create jobs.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE
Where the U.S. Economy Is Going, and Why
The full bill for Obama’s failed economic policies has yet to arrive. But no such explosion of debt has ever escaped a day of reckoning, and no such monetary surge has ever had a happy ending.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Barack Obama’s Presidency Is A Complete Failure By His Own, Self-Imposed Standards
At the end of 2013, after serving five years, Barack Obama is a complete failure as President, by his own standards, as reflected in his own words.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care · Politics
New Obamacare ‘Fee’ Assails Small Business and Jobs
In case you’re feeling safe and secure from the reaches of ObamaCare, not so fast! Surprises will be in store for you on your insurance premiums and income tax bills.
The Evolving Urban Form: Greater New York Expands
The term “Greater New York” was applied, unofficially, to the 1898 consolidation that produced the present city of New York, which brought together the present five boroughs (counties). When consolidated, much of the city of New York was agricultural. As time went on, the term “Greater” came to apply to virtually any large city and its environs, not just New York. By 2010, Greater New York had expanded to somewhere between 19 million and 23 million residents, depending on the definition.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
Disability Quotas Handicap the Least Powerful
The Department of Labor (DoL) just implemented another crippling regulation on American businesses. All 171,000 federal contractors must now meet a seven percent hiring quota for the disabled. This quota[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE
Economies, National Debts and Gold
A general optimism prevails in the United States and Europe that the economies have finally turned the corner and growth is resuming. Don’t get too excited.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Random · Uncategorized
The Government Should Stop Trying to Create Jobs
I cringe every time I hear a politician or pundit talk about how a certain policy will create or destroy jobs. Yes, I get why it’s done; the unemployment rate[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
How Does President Obama’s Economic Recovery Compare To Those Of Other Presidents?
The dramatic contrast between the results of Obama’s policies and Reagan’s policies have already resolved the debate our current president is having talking to himself on his “economic tour.”
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty
The Battle for Economic and Energy Freedom
We have the ability to produce, sell, and use our own resources, which could drive prosperity and allow the economy to thrive—energy freedom.
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Fed Fuel Regulations Throw Md., Va. Carnival Cruise Jobs Overboard
The Environmental Protection Agency acts as if every new burdensome demand makes a huge difference for the health and wellbeing of humans, in addition to claims that its costly, excessive regulations upon private business are actual net job creators.
Education · Featured · Liberty · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Joe Bast and Michael Bakalis Debate Education and Race, Part 2
In Part 2, Joe poses as Sister Agatha to get to the bottom of Mike’s views on school hiring rights, and Jim wants to know if Joe and Mike agree on anything at all.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
President Obama’s Climate Initiative—The Bad News and Good News
Contrary to predictions by all 73 of the world’s top climate models, global temperatures have failed to rise over the last 15 years.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Climate Alarmism’s 10,000 Commandments
EPA fiats threaten American lives, livelihoods, living standards and life spans.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Greenbacks Beat the Greens in Uber-Green California
A recent poll found that 60% of Californians were in favor of properly regulated hydraulic fracturing. Only 30% said they prefer a ban.
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- Althouse: The Clinton White House "conspiracy commerce memo" warned, in 1995, that "THE INTERNET... allows an extraordinary amount of unregulated data and information to be located in one area and available to all."
- The Epic Hypocrisy of Tom Steyer
- Competition, Rent-Seeking, and High-Frequency Trading
- Popular Technology.net: 1350+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic Arguments Against ACC/AGW Alarm
