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Even worse, its growing problems with wind and solar spell trouble all over the globe.

Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft bring you episode #169 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Goldwater Institute, and the Foundation for Economic Education.

For decades now, working people, tax payers and retirees have been battered by the Green elites who shelter in well-paid tax havens like the UN and Greenpeace.

Its a full studio today as Donny Kendal is joined by John Nothdurft, and Isaac Orr in episode #167 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from The Tax Foundation, The Heritage Foundation, and the Commonwealth Foundation.

An annual two-week luxury climate negotiation excursion for nearly 25,000 government diplomats, bureaucrats, and environmentalists in Bonn, Germany ended on November 17.

Leaders from around the world have assembled in Bonn, Germany to celebrate their abysmal failure to meet the carbon-dioxide emissions reduction goals established under the Paris climate agreement in 2015.

In the velodrome of multi-party politics that is Round 1 in the French Presidential election system, the sprint to the finish can be exciting.

On Sunday, April 23rd, the French will vote in the first of two rounds to determine their next President. In France, the system of elections involves, first, something of a jungle primary, in which many parties field candidates.

Not too surprisingly, for over two hundred and fifty years these ideas of Hume’s have both been highly controversial in philosophy, yet immensely influential across many social and scientific disciplines.

In the middle decades of the eighteenth century two schools of thought emerged, one in France and the other in Great Britain that were critical of Mercantilism, the government system of economic planning and regulation in the 1700s.

The U.K. withdrawal (“Brexit”) from the European Union drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 611 points, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Though the stock market rebounded, more unsettling news is on the way on economic, political and social fronts. Events will be startling, severe and global.

ON A TRAIN SOMEWHERE IN THE BELGIAN COUTRYSIDE – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) embarrassed itself with almost no people showing up for its panel discussion and media event at the United Nations COP21 climate talks in Paris.

We are currently marking the hundredth anniversary of the fighting of the First World War. For four years between the summer of 1914 and November 11, 1918, the major world powers were in mortal combat with each other. The conflict radically changed the world. It overthrew the pre-1914 era of relatively limited government and free market economics, and ushered in a new epoch of big government, planned economies, and massive inflations, the full effects from which the world has still not recovered.