04.15.2022 - By The Heartland Institute
The Heartland Institute's Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and Sam Karnick present episode 341 of the In The Tank Podcast. On this episode, the ITT crew talks about how Inflation is accelerating. Remember when they called It transitory? Well, now they have a bunch of different explanations and worse than that… they have a whole host of solutions to the problem. They also discuss a new report analyzes how states faired the pandemic – what policies worked and which policies made problems worse.
OPENING CHIT CHAT
USA Today - Mask mandates are returning to Philadelphia amid rising COVID cases. Should we be worried?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/04/12/covid-philadelphia-bring-back-mask-mandates-should-we-worried/7274121001/
INFLATION ACCELERATES
NYT – Inflation’s 40-Year High
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/briefing/inflation-forty-year-high-gas-prices.html
StoppingSocialism - Ben Shapiro: Yes, It’s Biden’s Inflation
https://stoppingsocialism.com/2022/04/ben-shapiro-yes-its-bidens-inflation/
WSJ - Here Come the Price Controls
https://www.wsj.com/articles/here-come-the-price-controls-oil-reserves-rent-consumers-joe-biden-inflation-drugs-11648998374
HDN – Windfall Profits Tax Redux
https://heartlanddailynews.com/2022/04/windfall-profits-tax-redux/
Fortune - Biden wants to let people buy blended gasoline to lower prices. There’s just one big problem
https://fortune.com/2022/04/12/biden-authorizes-blended-ethanol-gasoline-sale-lower-prices/
Reuters - U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-ethanol-worse-climate-than-gasoline-study-finds-2022-02-14/
PANDEMIC POST-MORTEM
WSJ – States of COVID performance
https://www.wsj.com/articles/states-of-covid-performance-economic-schools-study-working-paper-lockdowns-11649621806?mod=hp_trending_now_opn_pos4
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