A Slate article about the decline of the film projectionist profession provides insight into the real reasons for occupational licensing […]
Bad news for taxpayers in Missouri: Gov. Jay Nixon is beginning to communicate opposition to recommendations from the commission that […]
Joseph G. Lehman, president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, speaks at a Show-Me Institute event on Tuesday, April […]
Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst Dave Roland speaks about eminent domain abuse in Missouri to the Saint Louis County Pachyderm Club […]
Cape Girardeau will soon have a new $10 million dental and vision cooperative. From an article in the Southeast Missourian: […]
The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted the city of Menasha, Wis., and a failed steam plant project as evidence that […]
Columbia, like many cities across the country, faces budget shortfalls for the current year and the expected future. City officials […]
Caroline Hoxby, Ph.D., the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University, spoke about "The Promise and Performance […]
George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan recently opined about how well we live compared to even the richest Americans at […]
My alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, is going to the Rose Bowl this year. One of the student newspapers, […]
Jeff Benedict, author of “Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage,” speaks at a Sept. 15 event […]
Why is “nuclear” so commonly mispronouced in this country? I have no idea, but hopefully Missourians will have an expanded […]
Last May, IBM received $28 million in state tax credits and $3 million in incentives from the local government to […]
Daniel Wilson of the San Francisco Federal Reserve has released a new study analyzing the effects of the federal stimulus […]
[Note: This blog entry was written on Friday. The governor’s trip to Taiwan has since been canceled.] Later this month, […]
[Note: This blog entry was written on Friday. The governor’s trip to Taiwan has since been canceled.] Gov. Jay Nixon […]
We already know that tax credits and other targeted tax incentives encourage all sorts of strange economic behavior. In recent […]
In yet another case of good intentions gone bad, the bill Congress passed last year to reform the credit card […]
Missouri’s Tax Credit Review Commission, like the Bowles-Simpson National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, is a far-from-perfect mechanism for […]
In an email, a regular Show-Me Daily reader alerted me to a post on the Iowa-based Tax Update Blog. The […]
