poverty

The State of California has been unable to generate enough in-state power and needs to import expensive power from neighboring states.

Energy poverty is among the most crippling but least talked-about crises of the 21st century. We should not take energy for granted…

Shocker: Life is usually harder when you have less money

If a quest to address income inequality compromises the conditions necessary for prosperity, we might once again find ourselves all equally poor.

Looking back, the climate alarmist’s movement started with Al Gore’s 2007 movie when he proclaimed the eminent extinction of the polar bears due to global warming.

Some readers of a recent article published by WebMD titled “Will Climate Change Cause Food Sources to Dwindle?” might be fooled into thinking the author intends to carefully weigh the evidence about this important topic.

Why is the free enterprise or capitalist economic system so widely disliked, hated and opposed?

Recent articles in Scientific American and elsewhere acknowledge what many climate realists have long said: climate change, whether human-caused or not, does not mean the end of human civilization or life on Earth. It’s immoral to deny the poor the benefits of fossil fuel powered development to fight climate change.

The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the material condition of humanity than any other economic arrangement of human cooperation in all of recorded history.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #107 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Caesar Rodney Institute, and the Fordham Institute.

Through almost all mankind’s history, the human condition was one of abject poverty and hardship.

John and Donny continue their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #53 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the Manhattan Institute, the Ethan Allen Institute, and the Pacific Research Institute.

Several years ago, physician, statistician, sword swallower and vibrant lecturer Hans Rosling produced a fascinating 4-minute video that presented 120,000 data points and showcased how mostly western nations became healthy and prosperous in just 200 years – after countless millennia of malnutrition, disease, wretched poverty and early death.