By Oliver McPherson-Smith, American Consumer Institute With Senator Kamala Harris now on the ticket, Democratic nominee Joe Biden is angling to enhance his environmental credentials ahead of the November presidential election. The Biden campaign’s ambitious clean energy plan plays no small role in this ongoing effort. But in an unfortunate coincidence, in recent weeks […]
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What will EU-UK financial access look like?
“EU-UK financial market access from 2020-2021” By Karel Lannoo, courtesy of Centre for European Policy Studies Amid the uncertainty of EU-UK negotiations, financial market access is sure to be marked by more friction.[1] As the end of the transition period approaches, both sides are diverging, which indicates that financial services trade across the Channel […]
U.S. tech power grab is self-defeating
“A Self-Destructive War on Chinese Software” By Julian Sanchez, courtesy of the Cato Institute Donald Trump has made good on his threats against Chinese‐owned tech companies, issuing executive orders that aim to effectively ban not only the popular video sharing app and platform TikTok, but also the Chinese‐owned messaging app WeChat as of September 20. The former is a platform for […]
Repealing CON Laws Saves Lives
By Sriparna Ghosh, Agnitra Roy Choudhury, and Alicia Plemmons, courtesy of the Mercatus Center Imagine you have respiratory distress from an underlying non-COVID illness and are taken to the hospital. This hospital is subject to certificate-of-need (CON) laws, which means that there are government-imposed limitations on the number of CT scanners, respirators, and many […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Charter Schools Blazing Trails
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor August in Washington. As we eagerly wait for Congress to go on recess — they can do much less harm at home campaigning than they can do here legislating — Free Market policy people are working to offer better perspectives and policy options for the problems of the […]
Biden Yearns for Great Depression Days with Punitive Tax and Regulation Plan
By Peter J. Ferrara, Heartland Institute Democrat Presidential nominee Joe Biden has already said the first thing he is going to do if elected President is “repeal those Trump Tax Cuts.” He means specifically that he would repeal the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Biden’s plan would involve a tax increase of […]
The Nasty Impacts Of Minimum Wage Hikes
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 […]
When the “Plastic-Free” Ethos Meets Reality
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 […]
Report touting municipal broadband makes a weak case
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 […]
Why “Eat The Rich” Leads To Pauperizing the Poor
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 […]