By Andy Blom, TES Correspondent Congress fights the Coronavirus the only way it knows how — with panic and partisan bickering. Many Americans are just treating it like a snow day. Meanwhile free market policy people, now even more socially isolated than usual, are still working on issues and ideas that affect […]
Author: Erik Sass
How Charter Schools Could Lower Your Property Tax
By Janson Prieb, American Consumer Institute In Idaho, residents are concerned with rising property taxes, pushing legislators to consider freezing them all together. Meanwhile in Greenville, North Carolina residents are worried about reappraisals that are also raising property taxes. Yet, the solution to lower property taxes should be no mystery. With 30 percent […]
Dr. Carri Chan, Columbia Business School: How Hospitals Manage A Coronavirus Surge
With Covid-19 spreading quickly, intensive care units (ICUs) across America are bracing for a wave of new patients. Experts project up to 2 million ICUs visits during the outbreak. Nationwide, there are approximately 75,000 ICU beds, and on average 85% of them are already occupied. Demand for ICUs will quickly outstrip supply—unless […]
What Life Would Be Like on Planet Bernie
Tom Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste In a galaxy not too far away and a little too close to Earth lies Planet Bernie. Everything is free from birth to death. There is a government program for education, medical care, housing, and retirement, all 100 percent guaranteed and paid for. No one […]
Cut hidden fuel subsidies to fight climate change
“The European Green Deal must cut hidden fossil fuel subsidies” By Simone Tagliapietra, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute One of the basic ideas in economics is that you tend to get the best results if people or firms that take decisions have to take account of all the benefits and costs. Climate change […]
How to encourage more women to enter STEM fields
“Five Lessons for Aspiring Female Scientists” “STEM students will not only shape the world of tomorrow, they will occupy the heights of a digital economy characterized by ever-greater complexity, wielding enormous power through the knowledge and systems they create,” observers Marina Bacac, head of the Cancer Immunotherapy Departments at Roche Pharma Research & […]
Reject a government takeover of consumer lending
By Phil Kerpen, courtesy of American Commitment Price controls don’t work, cause shortages, and have precipitated economic disaster in every sector and jurisdiction that has attempted to impose them on any significant scale. But their braindead simplicity – something is too expensive, so we’ll mandate that it be cheaper – makes them forever […]
Are Solar Panel Mandates Helping Consumers Save Money?
By Krisztina Pusok and Ana Diaz, American Consumer Institute California’s solar energy mandate was officially implemented at the beginning of this year, making the Golden state the first in the nation to implement a law that obligates all newly constructed houses to have solar panels. Hawaii, Arizona, Maryland, and other states have announced they will follow suit. While […]
Celebrating the Return of the Primitive
By Kerry Jackson, Pacific Research Institute Private automobiles are no longer allowed on Market Street in San Francisco, California. The result has been an increase in bike ridership. This is, of course, being hailed as progress. So why does it look like the city is resetting the clock to a previous century? […]
Will Paraguay Follow Argentina’s Economic Decline?
By Marcelo Duclos, courtesy of Panampost Although there was a moment in history when there was talk of the “Argentine miracle” (after the Constitution of Juan Bautista Alberdi) or the “German miracle,” after World War II (in one part, of course), I think we should mention another contemporary miracle: the Paraguayan one. It […]