By Veronique de Rugy and Jack Salmon, courtesy of the Mercatus Center Recessions and national emergencies often cause large increases in government spending, soon followed by higher levels of deficit and debt. While this makes sense during an economic or other crisis, it should not generally be encouraged or perpetuated, particularly using ignorant and […]
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Herrin: FDA Denying Patients Fundamental Freedom of Choice
By Christina Herrin, Director, Free to Choose Medicine As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the United States, Americans need the freedom to try potentially life-saving medicines. Unfortunately, the U.S. FDA’s antiquated, rigidly bureaucratic structure is making this impossible – and it needs to change now. The Heartland Institute launched the Free […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Fighting Discrimination in School Funding
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor The Viral Rollercoaster — We unlock, we lock back down. Cases surge, deaths don’t. Schools to open, schools stay closed. It almost seems like politics and policy is rational and sane in comparison. Well, virus or no, Free Market policy people are working to offer better perspectives and […]
The race for CARES Act (taxpayer) broadband funds
By Johnny Kampis, Taxpayers Protection Alliance As the race for broadband funds from the CARES Act heats up, policy experts and taxpayer advocates hope the money ends up in the right place to help close the digital divide. The relief package, passed and signed into law in March, included $150 billion in relief […]
Ferrara: Obama & Biden Produced Worst Recovery Since the Great Depression
By Peter J. Ferrara, Senior Fellow at The Heartland Institute Perhaps the most important issue facing the country during the next four years is how our President will steer the economy and bring us out of the coronavirus recession. If history is any indicator, a Joe Biden Presidency would stifle the economic recovery. […]
Let’s Stop Fighting And Attack The Virus Together
Ralph Benko, Chairman of The Capitalist League, has a brilliant op-ed in USA Today together with Joan Blades, Co-Founder of MoveOn.org. Hailing from very different political persuasions, they make a powerful case for putting aside our differences to fight the virus together. I, Ralph, the conservative Republican, recognize my adversary Joan’s authentic compassion […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Deregulation = Gourmet Eats At Highway Rest Stops
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor I think what we really need is a baseball season, or some first-run movies. Well, if we have to deal with politics, Free Market policy people are working to offer better perspectives and policy options for the problems of the day. Here’s this week’s news … Leading […]
Rapidly Declining Unemployment Indicates Economic Recovery
By Lewis K. Uhler and Peter J. Ferrara, NTLF The unemployment report for June continued the great news in May, despite efforts to scare off recovery through further COVID-19 “shutdown scares”. May’s unemployment report showed an all-time one month record increase in new jobs of 2.5 million, producing a decline in unemployment of […]
Consumers Pay When Patent Trolls Monetize ITC Loopholes
By Krisztina Pusok and Steve Pociask, American Consumer Institute The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has become an increasingly popular venue for patent complaints, allowing patent trolls to exploit the loopholes in ITC practice for financial gains. Unless the ITC’s statute or practice adjusts to better reflect the realities of modern products and innovation […]
Ché Guevara’s house is for sale, and we want to buy it
By Federico N. Fernández, courtesy of Fundación Internacional Bases Fundación Internacional Bases, a think tank headquartered in Rosario (Argentina), wants to purchase the house in which Ché Guevara was born. Located in the center of Rosario, the apartment is on the second floor of a lovely French neoclassicist building. The purchase of the […]