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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedGovernmentPodcast
In The Tank (ep79) – Pure (BS) Michigan, Cigarette Black Market, and Privatizing DC’s Metro
by Donald Kendal March 10, 2017Episode #79 of the In The Tank Podcast is a best-of edition. Today’s podcast features work from the Mackinac Center, the Tax Foundation, and the Cato Institute.
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Critics of libertarians seem to worry most about our full-throated endorsement of and enthusiasm for the proven benefits of unhindered free-market competition. They believe that we are cynically defending a corrupt system of power and privilege, carrying water for capitalism’s exploiter class. There is, they argue, a need for governments, ostensibly pledged to “the greater good,” to intervene to counteract some of the perceived undesirable side effects of the free market system, which they say moves society toward inequitable accumulations of wealth in the hands of a few.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Google’s Growing US Search/Android Share Complicates FCC’s AllVid Proposal
by Scott Cleland May 29, 2016As more evidence comes to light exposing Google’s much increased search and Android dominance in the U.S. since the FTC closed its search and Android antitrust probes in January 2013, it only becomes clearer that the FCC’s AllVid proposed rulemaking to “Unlock the [set-top] Box” is obviously anticompetitive overall, not pro-competitive as the FCC naively claims.
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The FDA wasn’t wrong to regulate e-cigarettes. It was wrong to effectively ban, by its own estimate, up to 98.5% of the e-cigarettes on the market today.
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FeaturedHealth Care
Obamacare Anything but Affordable for Millennials
by Lindsey Stroud April 6, 2016How affordable is the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare? One just needs to look at the state of Minnesota. The state’s health insurance marketplace illustrates some of the many pitfalls of the Affordable Care Act, which has been especially hard on millennials.
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Rep. Cameron Sexton (TN): Government Regs Hurt Health Care Quality, Raise Costs
by Michael Hamilton April 5, 2016On today’s Health Care News Podcast, Tennessee state Rep. Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) joined Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton to explain why reforming Tennessee’s certificate of need (CON) laws will go far to improve health care quality, lower costs, and increase access for patients.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Google: When Something on the Internet is Free – You’re the Product
by Seton Motley March 9, 2016And that, in a nutshell, is the lion’s share of Google’s business model. And business – is booming. Google is worth a net $350 billion. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Denmark – is $342 billion.
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Another Presidential Legacy: Several American Presidents Were Also Inventors
by Seton Motley February 26, 2016Last Monday was Presidents Day. But that holiday is relatively new – an amalgamation of the birthdays of George Washington (President #1, February 22) and Abraham Lincoln (President #16, February 12). It is now a day set aside to celebrate all American Commanders-in-Chief.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Why Google Can’t Criticize EU Much for Ruling it Dominant & Anticompetitive
by Scott Cleland February 8, 2016In the next several weeks, expect the EC’s Competition Directorate to decide that Google is in fact dominant with >90% share of Internet search in Europe and that Google has abused its search dominance by biasing its own Shopping service over competitors. It also could formally charge Google for abuse of its search dominance in contractually tying Google Search and other search-driven apps like Maps, YouTube, etc. to Android to extend its search dominance to mobile search and to the operating system market where Android now owns >80% share.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
PUC Out of Line in NV Energy’s Dispute with Casinos
by James Taylor January 22, 2016Nevada’s public utilities watchdog appears to be refereeing the impasse between Warren Buffett-owned NV Energy and several Nevada casinos with the expertise and objectivity of a professional wrestling referee. This brings up a question: Why is the Nevada Public Utilities Commission giving away the candy store to out-of-state (and misnamed) NV Energy while vindictively sticking it to Nevada’s largest job creator?
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
The Government Must Stop Printing Phoney Money
by Richard Ebeling January 5, 2016If advocates of freedom were to make up a list of New Year’s resolutions for 2016, one of the most important items should be ending government’s monopoly control over money. In a free society, people in the marketplace should decide what they wish to use as money, not the government.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Greg Lawson: The Unintended Consequences of Occupational Licensing
by Jesse Hathaway December 21, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Greg Lawson, a policy analyst with The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions joins Managing Editor Jesse Hathaway to talk about a bill reforming the state’s occupational licensing rules for cosmetologists.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
A Free and Open Internet that Can’t Be Allowed to Be Free and Open?
by Scott Cleland November 19, 2015You know there are big problems with the so called “principle” of net neutrality when the New York Times writes an editorial headlined “Why Free Can Be a Problem on the Internet” and their editorial has nothing to do with protecting consumers’ privacy/safety or protecting content from piracy, but it is only about the potential problem of consumers enjoying free Internet content for marketing purposes!