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Hawai’ians Are Turning on Offshore Wind

    By Duggan Flanakin, Heartland   Three offshore wind projects that have lain dormant since 2015 are being revived after President Joe Biden called for the nation to produce 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030.   Hawai’ians are proving less than enthusiastic. Despite a state mandate requiring that all of Hawai’i’s electricity […]

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Washington Beyond the Headlines: Incompetence Alert

  By Andy Blom, TES Correspondent   Who would have guessed the Biden Administration would be more fraught with drama than the Trump Admin? But the border is in chaos, the pandemic in indecision, inflation running amok (try to buy lumber), lines at the gas pump as prices rise and Congress caught in overreach roadblock. […]

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Minimum Wage in a Complex Scenario

By LyD (Libertad y Desarrollo, Chile) The Chilean labor market has been deeply impacted by the pandemic and the quarantines decreed, which has led to a combined rate of unemployment and potential workforce (SU3) of 21.3% in the quarter January-March of this year. Added to this substantial imbalance is that 26.7% of those employed are […]

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Housing Bubble Stems from Exorbitant Deficits: Feds Need to Attract Investment, Not Debt

  By Paz Gomez, Frontier Centre For Public Policy   The macro effects of government stimuli to address COVID-19 lockdowns are starting to emerge. In Canada, they have taken the form of an overheating housing market. With mortgage rates plunging to historic lows, the demand for residential real estate is driving prices through the roof.    […]

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Congress: Ensure Mid-Band is Part of 5G Future

       By Derek Hosford, American Consumer Institute   While the Biden administration announced its plan to deliver high-speed internet access to every American in March, auctions for mid-band spectrum broke spending records, showing that mid-band needs to play a critical role in that effort.   Spectrum refers to the invisible radio frequencies that […]

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Mining Could Be Key to Peru’s Economic Recovery

    By Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE)    IPE projects that 2.3 million new jobs would be generated by projects identified in a new  mining portfolio. The study “Contribution of Mining to the National Economy”, prepared by the Peruvian Institute of Economy (IPE), was presented as part of the “Road to the 14th Symposium of […]

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Greenland’s Welfare Trap Replays in Canada

  By Peter Holle, Frontier Centre For Public Policy     This month, there was an unusual amount of international attention given to the Greenland election. This is a vast country with a tiny population of only 50,000. Every year, Denmark transfers $700 million to help fund Greenland’s government. This is a huge amount of […]

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EV Subsidies are a Renewable Waste

  By Oliver McPherson-Smith, American Consumer Institute   As part of his recently released infrastructure plan, President Joe Biden has vowed to overhaul the American electric vehicle (EV) industry with $174 billion worth of spending. But in his rush to spread the cash around, President Biden appears to be doubling down on environmentally inefficient and […]

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Biden’s Programs Would Fail for Many Reasons

  By Chris Edwards, Cato   President Biden is proposing to expand federal intervention in many areas that are the responsibility of state and local governments and the private sector. His $2.3 trillion jobs plan would subsidize broadband, automobiles, the electric grid, manufacturing, highways, transit, water systems, and much else. His $1.8 trillion families plan […]

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Central Bank: A Blurred Entity

By Enrique Blasco Garma of Libertad y Progreso   DATA CLAVE- The main purpose of the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) is to preserve the value of the currency. Inflation, which is now 75 years old, confirms the failure of BCRA. Why can’t it deliver? The State subordinates the value of the currency to finance the […]