Tax & Finance

Retailers Adjust Work Schedules to Offset Minimum Wage Hikes

    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 […]

Health

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 […]

Society

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 […]

Health

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 […]

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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. […]

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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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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 […]

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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” […]

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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 […]