Summary: <div><span><span>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 </span>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.</span></div> <div><span><strong> </strong></span></div> <div><span><strong> </strong></span></div> <div><span><strong>OPENING CHIT CHAT</strong></span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span><strong>USA Today - Mask mandates are returning to Philadelphia amid rising COVID cases. Should we be worried?</strong></span></div> <div><span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/04/12/covid-philadelphia-bring-back-mask-mandates-should-we-worried/7274121001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/04/12/covid-philadelphia-bring-back-mask-mandates-should-we-worried/7274121001/</a></span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span><strong>INFLATION ACCELERATES</strong></span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span><strong>NYT – Inflation’s 40-Year High</strong></span></div> <div><span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/briefing/inflation-forty-year-high-gas-prices.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/briefing/inflation-forty-year-high-gas-prices.html</a></span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span><strong>StoppingSocialism - Ben Shapiro: Yes, It’s Biden’s Inflation</strong></span></div> <div><span><a href="https://stoppingsocialism.com/2022/04/ben-shapiro-yes-its-bidens-inflation/">https://stoppingsocialism.com/2022/04/ben-shapiro-yes-its-bidens-inflation/</a></span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span><strong>WSJ - Here Come the Price Controls</strong></span></div> <div><span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/here-come-the-price-controls-oil-reserves-rent-consumers-joe-biden-inflation-drugs-11648998374">https://www.wsj.com/articles/here-come-the-price-controls-oil-reserves-rent-consumers-joe-biden-inflation-drugs-11648998374</a></span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span><strong>HDN – Windfall Profits Tax Redux</strong></span></div> <div><span><a href="https://heartlanddailynews.com/2022/04/windfall-profits-tax-redux/">https://heartlanddailynews.com/2022/04/windfall-profits-tax-redux/</a></span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span><strong>Fortune - Biden wants to let people buy blended gasoline to lower prices. There’s just one big problem</strong></span></div> <div><span><a href="https://fortune.com/2022/04/12/biden-authorizes-blended-ethanol-gasoline-sale-lower-prices/">https://fortune.com/2022/04/12/biden-authorizes-blended-ethanol-gasoline-sale-lower-prices/</a></span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span><strong>Reuters - U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds</strong></span></div> <div><span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-ethanol-worse-climate-than-gasoline-study-finds-2022-02-14/">https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-ethanol-worse-climate-than-gasoline-study-finds-2022-02-14/</a></span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span><strong>PANDEMIC POST-MORTEM</strong></span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span><strong>WSJ – States of COVID performance</strong></span></div> <div><span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/states-of-covid-performance-economic-schools-study-working-paper-lockdowns-11649621806?mod=hp_trending_now_opn_pos4">https://www.wsj.com/articles/states-of-covid-performance-economic-schools-study-working-paper-lockdowns-11649621806?mod=hp_trending_now_opn_pos4</a></span></div> <div><span> </span></div> <div><span><span><strong>[Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free on iTunes at </strong></span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/heartland-daily-podcast/id557620400?mt=2"><span><strong>this link</strong></span></a><span><strong>.]</strong></span></span></div>
