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Environment/Energy
Bottom-Up Cronyism – No Better Than Top-Down Cronyism
by Seton Motley June 30, 2017Government cutting special deals for special friends – is always obnoxious, obnoxiously bad policy.
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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
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The administrators who run Chicago Public Schools, the taxpayers who fund the district and CPS parents have a real mess on their hands. CPS is facing a $500 million budget shortfall for the 2015-16 school year alone. Altogether, the district is over $1 billion in the hole, and the debt CPS is carrying has been labeled “junk” by Fitch Ratings, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
An “Austrian” Economist’s Advice for Greece and the EU
by Richard Ebeling July 14, 2015For months, now, the mass media and the financial markets have anxiously watched and waited to see the outcome of a war of words, accusations, and threats that have been fought between Greece and its Eurozone and European Union partners.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Does Power and Clout Enable Exelon to Extort Its Will On All of Us?
by Nancy Thorner June 13, 2015A Chicago Tribune headline of Wednesday, April, 20, 2015, “Study: Exelon Aid Could Cost $1.6B”, told of an Exelon-backed bill, framed as supporting clean energy production, that could benefit Exelon’s nuclear plants, while costing ratepayers an additional $1.6 billion on their electric bills through 2021. The bill was cited as “a corporate bailout” by critics.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Exelon Posts $2 Billion Profit, Seeks New Restrictions on Competitors
by James Taylor May 28, 2015Fresh off a $2 billion profit in 2014, utility giant Exelon is attempting to strong-arm the Illinois legislature into placing new restrictions on lower-cost electricity competitors. If Illinois lawmakers don’t meet Exelon’s demands, it is threatening to shut down operations at three of its six Illinois nuclear power plants.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Heartland Daily Podcast – John Berlau: Taxpayers Lose Billions on Auto Bailout
by Jesse Hathaway January 20, 2015Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow John Berlau joins The Heartland Institute’s Budget & Tax News managing editor Jesse Hathaway to talk about the U.S. Treasury Department’s recent announcement that the “auto bailout” portion of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) had officially ended with the final repayment of taxpayer-funded loans to Ally Financial, formerly known as GMAC.
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – John Graham: The Cromnibus effect on Obamacare
by Sean Parnell December 30, 2014Managing Editor of Health Care News, Sean Parnell, talks with a Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, John Graham, in today’s Heartland Daily Podcast. In this episode, Parnell and Graham discuss a few health care related issues that have been in the news recently.
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Here’s the question for you, dear conservative and libertarian readers: Would you now consider buying a GM vehicle if its prior government ownership was a negative factor for you in the past?
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Taxpayers will have a choice: settle for single-payer or bail out private insurance, which otherwise won’t survive the ravages of Obamacare
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My colleague at The Heartland Institute, Eli Lehrer wrote a rather controversial op-ed for the Weekly Standard recently arguing that “Pensions Aren’t the Problem.” Eli’s piece makes some good points…
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Real Housewives of Wall Street: Rolling Stone asks why some received federal bailout cash
by Steve Stanek April 13, 2011Wow! Money to Japanese and European car companies. Money to banks from Bahrain to Bavaria. Money to the wives of wealthy and politically connected financiers. The information buried in the…