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RealClearHealth: Lower Drug Costs By Demolishing “Rebate Walls”

  Writing in RealClearHealth, Dr. Madelaine A. Feldman, a rheumatologist, and Wayne Winegarden, an economist with the Pacific Research Institute, explain how the Biden administration and state attorneys general could lower drug prices by ending anti-competitive industry practices known as “rebate walls“.   “Rebate walls, also known as rebate traps, block competition in parts of […]

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Is Klaus Schwab the world’s most dangerous man?

By John Mac Ghlionn, TES Contributor   Internationally, levels of personal freedom continue to decrease; COVID has, of course, played a role, but the downward spiral started long before the pandemic.   For freedom to flourish, democracies are required. Around the world, however, established democracies are in decline. Again, the decline was occurring long before the pandemic hit.   Democracy, we’re told, […]

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Anno Mundell: An Elegy for the Father of the Golden Age

By Ralph Benko, TES Contributor   Nobel Economics Prize holder Robert Mundell has left the building. Why should we care? He wasn’t a celebrity like Elvis or Kim Kardashian or Donald Trump. Rather, Mundell quietly and emphatically improved the lives of billions of people.   Including you and me.   Mundell was the founder of […]

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Patent Troll Complaints at the ITC Threaten Consumers

By Mario H. Lopez, Hispanic Leadership Fund   More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and the array of challenges that it has wrought for Americans of all walks of life, one area that has met this unique challenge and demonstrated resiliency is our broadband networks.  The Internet infrastructure has been largely successful in […]

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RealClearScience – Biocontrol: A Novel Solution to Agricultural Pests

  Note: This article was written by Dr. David Sands, a Professor of Plant Pathology, specializing in Bacteriology, Biocontrol, Nutritious Crops, and Bioprecipitation at Montana State University, and published in RealClearScience on March 30, 2021. Read the full article here.   Delayed by the pandemic for nearly a year, the Kenyan government has at last […]

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Investing is like chess – not roulette

By Rainer Zitelmann, TES Contributor   GameStop punters, crypto-enthusiasts and many newcomers to the stock market do not understand the difference between investing and gambling. For them the capital market is like a casino.   There are many legendary stories of people who struck it rich on the stock market almost overnight. But you rarely […]

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Washington Beyond the Headlines: Stimulus conditions kneecap state tax cuts

By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor   We desperately need Spring in Washington. You know, a moderate season. We currently are faced with the political versions of extreme climate — and we, the poor American people, are caught in the middle. How about some moderate temperatures, some flowers, gentle rain, baseball even? Just as Spring […]

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Landmark Court Battle for COVID-19 Treatment

By Justus R. Hope, MD   The legal war for access to the life-saving drug Ivermectin is being waged both in the United States and South Africa. The US battle is led by Buffalo, New York attorney Ralph C. Lorigo while Bongani Luthuli fights in Johannesburg. Mr. Lorigo made national news when he won a […]

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Glass-Steagall Is the Wrong Approach for Regulating Big Tech

By Edward Longe, American Consumer Institute   As Washington continues its anti-consumer war on big tech, Chair of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, David Cicilline (D-RI 01), and other trustbusters have called for a Glass-Steagall law to regulate tech companies. Despite the attractiveness of a Glass-Steagall law for big tech, it would only inflict unnecessary harm […]