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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]