By Kerry Jackson, Pacific Research Institute Just as he rejected pleas to suspend the execrable Assembly Bill 5 to ease the financial squeeze caused by the pandemic lockdowns, Gov. Gavin Newsom has declined to put off the state’s coming minimum-wage hike. The small businesses that worked hard enough to survive 2020’s downturn might be broken […]
By Christian Josi, TES Contributor As a person fortunate enough to live and work in a place where my front yard is a marina and my back yard the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, a part of just about every day involves plucking litter–mostly plastic based things doing demonstrable harm to oceans and […]
Johnny Kampis, Taxpayers Protection Alliance Critics of municipal broadband eviscerated a recent report created by the Open Technology Institute (OTI), a cheerleader of government-owned networks (GON)s. OTI released its annual Cost of Connectivity report last month, claiming that municipal networks (i.e. taxpayer-funded networks) are both cheaper and offer more robust speeds than the […]
By William R. Collier, Jr. In “The Rich In Public Opinion“, Dr. Rainer Zitelmann lays bare that raw bigotry that threatens to poison the well for everyone who aspires to a better life. We might call this the all-out assault on the very premise of capitalism and its impressive success in moving humanity toward […]
By Lewis K. Uhler and Peter J. Ferrara President Trump and congressional Democrats are still battling over another big spending Covid-19 “bailout bill” that would add trillions to the national debt. But the best solution to reduce unemployment and get Americans back to work is not paying them more in unemployment insurance than […]
By Rainer Zitelmann, TES Contributor There are masses of books on how to get rich. But most of them are straightforward “how-to” books that readers should approach with a degree of skepticism for several reasons: If the authors of the books claim to know exactly how to become rich, it goes without saying that […]
“Market Pressure and the Amazon — First Steps towards a Brazilian Green New Deal?” By Karina Marzano and Artur Sgambatti Monteiro, courtesy of IASS In the past few weeks, a series of open statements by private actors made headlines. Major European asset management firms threatened to divest from beef producers, grains traders and government bonds in […]
“Why Marry when Living in Sin Is Cheaper?” By Haig Simonian, courtesy of Avenir Suisse My wife and I pay tax in two countries, but file three returns. That is because Switzerland, like much of continental Europe, taxes husbands and wives as one, whereas the UK, like Sweden and Austria, treats the two […]
“Europe Needs a ‘New UK’” By Bill Wirtz, courtesy of the Austrian Economics Center French President Emmanuel Macron accused the “Frugals”, i.e. the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, and Sweden (during the last European Council summit, Finland also joined this group) of “acting like Brexit Britain.” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte had demanded a smaller proportion of grants […]
“Occupational Licensing Reform Moves Forward” By Michael D. Tanner and Kelly Lester, courtesy of the Cato Institute With an unemployment rate currently over 10 percent and many businesses permanently closing due to the pandemic, policymakers should make it as easy as possible for unemployed workers to find new opportunities. State policymakers have tools […]