By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor July 4 may be past, but it’s always a good time to celebrate Freedom and Liberty. Fortunately Free Market people are always working to help secure these precious possessions with better perspective and policy options. So for Liberty, here’s this week’s news … Freeing Us […]
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Cut Red Tape to Boost the COVID-19 Recovery
By Oliver McPherson-Smith, American Consumer Institute Recent employment data suggests that America is on the road to economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Despite the nascent evidence of better times ahead, the economy in 2020 will not inevitably look like it did in late 2019. To help workers find jobs in this new […]
Red Tape Helps China, Hurts Critical U.S. Super-Conductor Chip Manufacturing
By Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor Let the Great Re-Shoring begin: One of the many ways the COVID pandemic will change the behavior of nations is coming into view, with profound implications for the globalization of trade, and where we make what we buy. With China controlling the chokepoint on medical devices from […]
On vaccine, World Health Assembly putting cart before the horse
By Roger Bate, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) The World Health Assembly which begins today is the most important in living memory. Normally it lasts for a mind-numbingly boring week and addresses myriad issues, but this time it’s only taking two days, with the focus on Covid-19. NPR is setting this up as […]
WHO’s Failings: Time for a New UN Health Agency?
By Roger Bate, AEI President Trump has halted funds to the World Health Organization (WHO). Undoubtedly he is looking to avoid blame for a slow U.S. government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the tens of thousands of US deaths. But he also has a point. We need a global agency to combat […]
COVID-19 triggered “cascading structural failures”
By Martin Gurri, courtesy of the Mercatus Center Like most people I know, I am presently trapped in social isolation, stuck in a dreamlike parenthesis between what was once normal life and the uncertain struggles lurking on the other side. We are huddled, most of us—the fortunate ones—in our hiding places, waiting. That […]
Does the UK need a “Department for Coronavirus”?
Do we need a ‘Department for Coronavirus’? By Jill Rutter, courtesy of UKIACE We had a Department for Exiting the EU when Brexit was the all-consuming task of the UK government under Theresa May. That department has now been replaced by a team in No.10 running the negotiations in Task Force Europe, and by […]
Federal Interference Blocking Renewable Energy
By Oliver McPherson-Smith, American Consumer Institute Wind power has gradually become the leading source of renewable energy in the United States. With strong consumer demand for lower carbon energy and new technology lowering the price of production, wind power now rivals solar and fossil fuels on cost. Despite wind’s success, conflicting federal policies are picking winners and losers […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Index Capital Gains to Inflation to Keep Economy Humming
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor The Democratic primary gets nastier, coronavirus panics the markets and Congress responds with partisan bickering…. Ho hum, another week of business as usual…except for free market policy people who are busy working on issues and ideas that affect America, and the world. Read on for this week’s […]
UK taxpayers subsidizing lobbying industry, political campaigns
“Almost £40 million of taxpayers’ money paid for lobbying and political campaigning” Courtesy Taxpayers’ Alliance New analysis from the TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals how ministers, officials and quangocrats are wasting taxpayers’ cash funding organisations that lobby the government. From 2017-19, organisations that lobby for changes in public policy received at least £39,584,172. Taxpayer money […]