By Ryan Bourne, Cato Institute In both his Cato paper and then an article for the Journal of Economic Perspectives, UC San Diego economist Jeff Clemens delineated the full range of ways any business might adjust to a minimum wage hike. Most empirical research has focused on whether firms cut jobs or […]
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Past Pandemics Handled With Common Sense
By Brian Giesbrecht, Frontier Centre for Public Policy Great events in history usually have one picture that manages to capture their essence. The iconic photo of the American troops planting the flag on Iwo Jima does it for WWII and the disturbing picture of the naked little girl running for her life from […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Gunning for the 2nd Amendment
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor Our Vice President deals with immigration by flying over the border…but she still hasn’t visited Europe. The Senate is at a standstill, gas prices are rising and inflation is starting to show its ugly head. Welcome to summer 2021. But have hope…free market thinkers and doers […]
Rx Importation Poses a Threat to Consumers, Not A Solution
By Foday Turay, American Consumer Institute According to the GoodRx Research Team, 832 brand drugs have increased by an average of 4.5% since December 31, 2020. Americans pay around $1,200 for prescription drugs a year. The continuing rise of prescription drug prices has a significant impact on many Americans, especially during a global […]
Roll out Renewables before Biden’s Blackouts Roll in
ByOliver McPherson-Smith. American Consumer Institute Commuters in California will be familiar with radio ads that ask them to ration electricity when they get home from work. The campaign begs consumers to power down between 4 pm and 9 pm, when renewable energy generation dips and utilities struggle to power the grid. […]
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 […]
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. […]
A joint declaration on the importance of IPRs to Covid vaccine manufacturing scale-up and future pandemic preparedness
From the Geneva Network We are an informal coalition of civil society organisations that believes that continued collaboration between governments, international organisations, the private sector, and civil society is the fastest way to end the Covid-19 pandemic and kickstart stalled economic growth. Respect for intellectual property rights is key and will […]
Analyzing the Biden Administration’s Tech and Innovation Policy Agenda
By Bartlett Cleland, Pacific Research Institute While it took a couple of months for clarity to replace idle speculation, the Biden administration’s tech and innovation public policy agenda is increasingly clear. The forecast? Government with little chance of free markets. At his recent address to Congress President Biden highlighted “technologies of the future” […]
Competition Collapse: How Consolidation Threatens American Defense Innovation
By Kelli Kedis Ogborn The experience of American innovation is radically intertwined with American competition, so much so that competition might be considered the catalyst for innovation. Competition in the marketplace forces companies to think forward and think differently. This thinking-outside-the-box is indistinguishable, happily so, from the defining features of innovation and such […]