The Heartland Institute

David Lesperance helps people move their money and themselves around the world. Demonizing rhetoric from America's political leaders and bills like the recently introduced Ex-Patriot Act have boosted his business as millionaires and billionaires -- the nation's "Golden Geese" -- look for ways to protect their wealth from a money ...

Benjamin Domenech interviews Andrew Grossman, Dan McLaughlin, Erick Erickson and others on the Supreme Court's shocking Obamacare ruling. ...

A new group calling itself the Coalition to Reduce Spending has come together to pressure federal legislators and candidates for office to cut federal spending. Coalition President Jonathan Bydlak tells us why they believe federal spending needs to be cut and how they hope to do it. ...

Illinois has more than doubled its cigarette tax, with most of the money pledged to Medicaid. But Jonathan Ingram of the Illinois Policy Institute says experience shows state officials are likely to be disappointed in the results. ...

Bret Swanson, president of the technology and innovation research firm Entropy Economics LLC, discusses the Federal Communications Commission’s mishandling of spectrum acquisition, which threatens to thwart the United State’s most robust economic and technological engine. ...

Institute for Energy Research senior vice president Dan Kish explains how EPA regulations are stifling the economy ...

John C. Goodman of the NCPA outlines what comes after Obamacare. ...

Americans generally agree that teachers are important, but just how important are they and how do we know? Marcus Winters, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy, joins the School Reform News podcast to discuss this and his review of the available research on teacher evaluation policies in his new book, Teachers ...

Scott Cleland, chairman of NetCompetition and president of Precursor LLC, discusses his Daily Caller essay “Obsolete Analysis Will Doom DOJ’s Antitrust Probe of Cable.” ...

It is common for education researchers to contend the topic they are studying or the policies they are promoting have never been researched before, says Dr. Richard Phelps in a new article for Academic Questions, the journal of the National Association of Scholars. This is common even among well-known and influential researchers ...

Sheila Weinberg of the Institute for Truth in Accounting discusses her organization's "State of the States" report, which shows state governments with $900 billion in retiree obligations that have gone unfunded and unreported because of lax government accounting standards. In some states each taxpayer owes tens of thousands of ...

R Street Institute has come out with its 2012 Insurance Regulation Report Card. The Institute's Ray Lehmann tells us how the grades are determined and why Vermont, Illinois and Ohio earned A pluses and Florida received a failing grade. ...

Education is entering a revolutionary period driven by the reinvention of the entire school, concludes a recent study by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. Study coauthor James Woodworth joins the School Reform News Podcast to discuss the future of education. “From KIPP to Carpe Diem, education is entering a revolutionary ...

Benjamin Domenech is joined by Beverly Gossage to discuss interstate insurance, why it has failed so far and how it can succeed in providing more insurance options at lower cost. ...

Marc Morano of Climate Depot discusses breaking news regarding global warming. ...

Dr. George S. Ford, chief economist for the Washington, DC-based Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies, discusses the findings of his most recent policy perspective, “A Most Egregious Act? The Impact on Consumers of Usage-Based Pricing.” ...

Benjamin Domenech interviews Josh Archambault of the Pioneer Institute to discuss the Massachusetts effort to manage health care costs by squeezing the state’s doctors. ...

Illinois has the nation's worst-funded government pension system, and still the state's legislators failed to enact any reforms before their session ended June 1. David From of Americans for Prosperity explains what needs to happen to end the state's pension-fueled fiscal crisis. ...

Writing in the Wall Street Journal , Sen. Lamar Alexander says it’s time for a healthcare-education swap like one President Reagan was amenable to: The federal government would take over Medicaid and let states completely handle education. Is that a good idea? Heartland’s Health Care News managing editor and healthcare policy ...

Less Government President Seton Motley discusses the May 15 conference he organized and hosted in which he and participants discussed and debated information technology and telecommunications issues. ...