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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Should Minimum Wage Be Set by Any Governmental Body?
by Nancy Thorner & Dave Pennington February 22, 2021Legislative action that purports to achieve an economic goal directly is doomed to failure, both in its stated intention and, more broadly, in the collateral damage it will cause
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ConstitutionEconomicsFeaturedGovernmentLibertyPolitics
The Pandemic or the Lockdown: Which Has Been Worse?
by Daniel Sutter October 14, 2020The COVID Tracker website reports 201,000 deaths through October 4 for a value of $2 trillion using the VSL
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In The Tank (ep110) – World Economic Freedom, CPP Repeal, and College Free Speech Survey
by Donald Kendal October 13, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #110 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Cato Institute, the Heartland Institute and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Daniel Griswold: Globalization and Free Trade are Not Dirty Words
by Jesse Hathaway August 24, 2016In this episode of the weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway is joined by Mercatus Center senior research fellow Daniel Griswold, talking about why “globalization” is not a dirty word, despite what politicians may be telling people this year.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeatured
Our Economic Future: Windrock’s 2016 Financial and Economic Roundtable
by Christopher Casey February 24, 2016Today we have assembled a panel of independent experts with unique perspectives. We are recording this in late January, and it has already been a dramatic year. After rebounding from a brutal start, the U.S. stock market is still down 5%, while Europe, Japan and China have all declined approximately 8%.
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FeaturedLegal Affairs
What Road For America — Liberty Or Political Plunder?
by Richard Ebeling February 24, 2016Presidential election years, more than many others, focuses our attention on politics, those running for political office, and the promises the competing candidates make to sway our allegiance and votes toward one or some of them in comparison to others. They want us to give them political power by promising to use that power to benefit some of us in ways that can only come at the expense of others in society.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Jessica Sena: How State Regulatory Plans Restrict Development
by Isaac Orr January 7, 2016In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast Independent Communications Consultant Jessica Sena and research fellow Isaac Orr discuss the impact of state regulatory plans to restrict development in areas deemed important habitat for sage grouse, a bird which inhabits eleven western states. Many of these rural states depend upon agriculture, mining, and forestry for economic growth, but each of these industries will be impacted by limitations on development because of the sage grouse.