By Michael Auslin, courtesy of the Mercatus Center The COVID-19 pandemic that began in Wuhan, China, has led to a sharp intensification in tensions between the United States and China. With clear evidence that Beijing covered up the extent and nature of the epidemic in its early months, using the World Health Organization (WHO) to mislead […]
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Washington Beyond the Headlines: Feds Shouldn’t Cover State Budget Shortfalls
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor They say bad things come in threes. Well, we’ve had a pandemic, a wave of protests and riots, so what else does 2020 have in store for us? But no matter the obstacles, free market policy people keep right on working, offering perspective and policy options to lead […]
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 […]
Alarmist Media Focusing On Wrong COVID-19 Metric
By Erik Sass, TES Editor-in-Chief Fears of a “second wave” of COVID-19, including in parts of the country that have not yet been badly hit, are growing in response to two nearly simultaneous events: the lifting of lockdowns and the wave of protests over George Floyd’s death. The mainstream media is fanning the flames […]
UK needs tax cuts, regulatory clear-out to speed recovery
“New report outlines deregulatory and tax-cutting measures to reboot Britain” By Julian Jessop and Len Shackleton, courtesy of IEA The uncertainty created by the COVID-19 crisis has reinvigorated many old debates about the role of the state, says a new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs and Civitas, written by IEA Economics Fellow […]
Women, young adults suffer worst pandemic’s mental health effects
By James Banks and Xiaowei Wu, courtesy of the Institute for Fiscal Studies The COVID-19 episode has had substantial negative impacts on mental health across the population. The biggest impacts have been on the gender and age groups – broadly women and the young – that already had relatively low levels of mental […]
Europe must prepare for life after oil
By Nafeez Ahmed, courtesy of the European Policy Centre Oil prices have crashed. The most visible cause has been the measures taken to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, which have triggered record lows in global oil demand. Yet the crisis also exposes structural vulnerabilities in our fossil fuel-dependent economic system, which requires us […]
US Remains Vulnerable to COVID-19 Scams. Here are the loopholes the FDA should close
By Jorge González-Gallarza Hernández, courtesy of the Mercatus Center As states and hospitals scour the world for urgently needed COVID-19 supplies, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) efforts to increase the importation of face masks, protective shields, and other products have come into conflict with the agency’s mandate to ensure that all medical devices entering […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Tax Cuts at Stake In November
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor Wow! Busy week. Some states are opening, some states are dragging their feet, the stock market is climbing, employment is rocketing back up but people are still social distancing unless they’re protesting. And, in the true American spirit, some people just have never stopped working through it all, […]
With emergency measures, European fiscal divide deepens
“ECB calls for European Integration via a Common Fiscal Policy Response” By Gordon Kerr, Cavin O’Driscoll and Enrico Colombatto, courtesy of IREF ECB President Lagarde announced a keenly awaited new policy statement on April 30th. There was to be no increase to the Euros 750 billion Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP), but the economic […]