“Lucky Lindy” vs. Jeff Bezos: Who Is the Better Bet for Missouri?
It may be the biggest and most closely watched competition since Charles Lindbergh – backed by a group of Saint...
Ignore the Gimmicks. Here Are the Reasons Amazon Should Come to Missouri.
My colleague Patrick Tuohey has talked at length about the stunts some have pulled to try and get Amazon to...
Is Amazon Getting into the Pharmacy Business? Let’s Hope So
Competition and supply are good things, and as we’ve said before, health care needs more of both. Innovations along those...
TechNet Companies: Want More Education Funding? Then Pay Your Fair Share.
In a recent opinion column, Linda Moore, the president and CEO of TechNet, a “national, bipartisan network of technology CEOs...
Are Kansas City and Saint Louis Getting Taken?
The deadline for submissions to Amazon to host their new headquarters building has come and gone, and both Kansas City...
Beware the Perils of Corporate Welfare: An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos
Amazon is amazing. Just amazing. In just 20 years as a public company, it has experienced a thousand-fold growth in...
Like Google, Amazon Wants Good Government over Gimmickry
The imaginations of municipal governments across the country have been captured by the prospect of being chosen as the location...
A Linked Summary of the KCI Terminal Saga
In April 2013, Kansas City Mayor Sly James called for an “adult discussion about the facts” regarding the proposal to...
Corporate Welfare: A Curse, Not a Cure
I could only groan when I read the headline: “Saint Louis unifies to win Amazon HQ2: A Successful Bid Would...
Ferguson Joins Allman Report to Discuss Impact of Protests on Saint Louis
On Thursday, September 21, Show-Me Opportunity’s Mike Ferguson appeared on ABC St. Louis KDNL’s The Allman Report to discuss the potential...
Want to Improve Mizzou? Look East
Last fall, at the same time the University of Missouri announced the first decline in enrollment in 15 years, Purdue...
Kansas City’s Intermodal Strength
The announcement a few months ago that Amazon would be opening a fulfillment center in Kansas City, Kansas was great...
A Lesson in Tax Efficiency for Missouri
Colorado has taken a step toward combating tax losses from online sales, and other states may take note. The U.S....
Creating a Field of Dreams for the American Royal
With the World Series in full swing, I’m reminded of a quote from one of my favorite sports movies, Field...
St. Louis Mills Auctioned Off for 6 Percent of Its Original Cost
The St. Louis Outlet Mall, formerly St. Louis Mills Mall, sold on November 18 on Auction.com for $9 million. The...
Killing the Golden Goose: How Walmart’s Left-Wing Critics Destroy Job Creation
Under three different CEOs, Wal-Mart has done all kinds of somersaults to appease left-wing critics. In 2005, Lee Scott set...
Medicaid and Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Have you ever been in Best Buy (or, for you millennials, on Amazon) and looked at a nice 70-inch 4K Ultra...
Constitutional Law Expert Joshua Hawley Weighs in on Obamacare at Policy Forum
Joshua Hawley, a professor of law at the University of Missouri, was gracious enough to join the Show-Me Institute in Columbia...
Thomas Piketty and Mises’s ‘The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality’
As first appearing at Mises.org: Ludwig von Mises, a mentor to Friedrich Hayek and a major figure in economics in...
Remember That Residents Are Customers
One of the reasons I shop on Amazon almost weekly is because of the company’s impeccable customer service. (I also...
