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Budgets/Taxes
Fewer Regulations in Washington, DC Is a Good Starting Place for Reform
by Jesse Hathaway May 23, 2017By inserting itself into the operations of businesses large and small, government makes itself a factor business owners have to consider when making virtually all their decisions.
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GovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Trump’s First 30 Days: Implementing the Regulatory Reform Agenda
by Thomas Hemphill February 28, 2017In President Donald Trump’s “Contract with the American Voter”, a key component is a pledge to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses, their employees, and consumers, and there appears to be solid public support for this policy change.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Erick Elder: Is Your State Preparing for the Next Economic Recession?
by Jesse Hathaway January 20, 2016In today’s episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with University of Arkansas-Little Rock economics professor Erick Elder about a new study, published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, about how well state lawmakers are preparing for the next economic recession.
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FeaturedHealth Care
Certificate of Need Laws Raise Health Care Costs, Reduce Access
by Ken Artz April 28, 2015In ancient times, wealthy city-states built impregnable walls to ward off attacks from neighboring tribes and other enemies. Today we have a modern-day equivalent in North Carolina, where a few large hospital chains benefit from impenetrable defenses in the form of certificate of need (CON) regulations protecting their wealthy practices from the menace of competition in the form of smaller, more innovative providers that charge less.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
The Latest Meteorologist Survey Destroys The Global Warming Climate ‘Consensus’
by James Taylor November 25, 2013Barely half of American Meteorological Society meteorologists believe global warming is occurring and humans are the primary cause, a newly released study reveals. The survey results comprise the latest in a long line of evidence indicating the often asserted global warming consensus does not exist.
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The latest edition of The Heartland Institute’s Author Series featured Hester Peirce of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. One of the most-knowledgeable scholars in America on finance policy, Hester…