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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Lin Yutang, a Classical Liberal Voice for a Free China
by Richard Ebeling March 9, 2021China’s star seems to be rising on the global stage with the claim of strong economic growth, extending its military reach in Asia, and snuffing out the remaining freedoms in Hong Kong.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPoliticsScience
Free science is here and growing fast
by David Wojick November 9, 2020Thanks to the miracle of online commenting the discussion of science, especially related to policy, is now a major popular pastime.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedLegal AffairsPodcast
In The Tank (ep84) – The Tax Code Punishes Entrepreneurship, United Airlines, and Why Big Gov Fails
by Donald Kendal April 13, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #84 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Tax Foundation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Sutherland Institute.
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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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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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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Pokemon Go Re-Reveals The Left’s Anti-Free Market, Pro-Government Fetish
by Seton Motley July 22, 2016Congratulations to Google on Pokemon Go. Google’s parent company Alphabet incubated and spun out this latest highly successful data-collection-device – for sale to advertisers everywhere.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
May Free Speech Reign and Scientific Inquiry Prevail
by Marita Noon July 6, 2016Throughout the past four years, climate change activists have been secretly coordinating with one another regarding ways to prosecute individuals, organizations, and companies that are their ideological foes. They met to develop a strategy to use RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), which was intended to provide stronger weapons for prosecuting organized crime, against those who speak out against the Obama administration’s war on fossil fuels.
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Sean Parnell: A Shamelessly Uninsured Self-Pay Patient Saving Thousands on Health Care
by Michael Hamilton June 29, 2016The shamelessly uninsured: Michael Hamilton, host of the Health Care News Podcast and managing editor of Health Care News, and Sean Parnell, author of The Self-Pay Patient: Affordable Healthcare Choices in the Age of Obamacare and a former Health Care News managing editor.
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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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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Governments Create Monopolies and Cause Worker Exploitation, Not Free Markets
by Richard Ebeling May 18, 2016The world is threatened with a renewed wave of anti-capitalism and anti-business sentiments and policies. Many who cheered the demise of Soviet communism in the early 1990s, presumed that this meant that, by default, the case for free markets and competitive enterprise had won in the battle of ideas. Over the last twenty-five years it has become clear that the same misguided arguments against free market capitalism constantly reemerge, like an ideological vampire waiting to rise from the intellectual grave and drain market freedom of its lifeblood by more government regulations and controls.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
AllVid Deja-Vu: Google-YouTube’s Forcing Video to be Open to Piracy Again
by Scott Cleland April 15, 2016Google’s puppeteering of FCC-sponsored piracy in the FCC AllVid set-top box proposal is not the first time Google has anticompetitively used piracy promotion to gain an anticompetitive market advantage for YouTube’s monopsony power — i.e. its market power from being the only repository in the world where one can access a copy of most every video created whether it is legal or pirated, and where Google often promotes pirated videos near the top of its search results.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Kyle Maichle: U.S. Term Limits and Wolf-Pac
by Donald Kendal January 26, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Kyle Maichle, project manager for Constitutional Reform at The Heartland Institute joins Host Donald Kendal to talk about the final two organizations seeking an Article V convention – U.S. Term Limits and Wolf-Pac.