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Heartland Daily Podcast – Teresa Mull: Heartland’s New Research Fellow for Education
by Jesse Hathaway April 27, 2016In this episode of the Heartland Institute’s weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with the newest addition to the Heartland Institute family, Center for School Transformation research fellow Teresa Mull, about how economic freedom and educational freedom are similar, sharing the goal of empowering consumers to make the choices that are right for them, instead of the choices government makes for people.
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Despite Gloomy News, Life is Actually Getting Better
by Jesse Hathaway April 25, 2016It seems the news these days is nothing but bad. Through the media, we are told crime and violence rates are rising, rich cronies are getting richer and low-income earners are getting poorer, and war or rumors of war between countries across the globe run rampant.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Yaron Brook: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
by Jesse Hathaway April 12, 2016What do Michelangelo, LeBron James, Steve Jobs, and Bernie Sanders have in common? In this episode of the weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Yaron Brook, the president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute to find out!
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Dan Ikenson: High Trade Deficit Means American Goods are In-Demand
by Jesse Hathaway April 7, 2016In this episode of the weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Cato Institute policy analyst Dan Ikenson about how international trade is not a scoreboard to measure a nation’s economic success against other countries, but the best way to improve the lives of everyday Americans, and everyday people all over the world.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Jesse Hathaway: Apple vs. the FBI
by Jesse Hathaway March 16, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Research Fellow and Managing Editor of Budget & Tax News Jesse Hathaway joins AM Tampa Bay radio with Hosts Jack Harris and Tedd Webb. Hathaway joins the show to talk about the Apple vs. FBI encryption debate.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Dustin Chambers: Regulations Act Like a Regressive Tax
by Jesse Hathaway March 8, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Salisbury University associate professor of economics Dustin Chambers about a new paper published by the Mercatus Center, examining how federal regulations affect the prices of consumer goods, and consumers themselves.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Terry Miller: America Drops on the Economic Freedom Index
by Jesse Hathaway February 17, 2016In this episode of the Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis director and former U.S. ambassador Terry Miller, about a recent survey of economic freedom indicators all over the world.
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After months of delays, the office of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio released a long-awaited “impact study” examining the effect of Uber — a popular “peer-to-peer economy” business connecting drivers and riders — on the city’s traffic-flow patterns.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Jared Meyer: Peer-to-Peer Economy Saves Time, Money, and Lives
by Jesse Hathaway February 1, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Manhattan Institute research fellow Jared Meyer about a recent study commissioned by New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio on the impact of Uber and other peer-to-peer transportation network companies on the city’s ever-present traffic congestion.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Jonathan Williams: Welfare Reform and Economic Reform Go Hand in Hand
by Jesse Hathaway January 25, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor of Budget & Tax News Jesse Hathaway talks with Jonathan Williams, Vice President of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) Center for State Fiscal Reform, about how welfare reform and economic reform go hand in hand, and what states can do to help the needy back onto their feet and into society.
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Bitcoin, Other Alt-Currencies Offer More Choices for Consumers
by Jesse Hathaway January 19, 2016In just eight years, Bitcoin and the idea of “virtual currency” have gained acceptance and use both online and in the physical world. Spread by word of mouth and other “viral” means, decentralized virtual currencies have gone from a mere thought experiment to a tangible economic reality.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Berin Szoka: Government’s Fight Against Zero-Rating and Consumer Choice
by Jesse Hathaway January 13, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Berin Szoka, president of TechFreedom, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting the progress of technology that improves the human condition, about how regulators both at home and abroad are using the power of the state to combat zero-rating, a kind of sponsored-data plan where access to popular web applications like Facebook or streaming video services is made available to consumer at no cost.