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AEC Announces Austrian Economics Conference in Vienna

  By The Austrian Economics Center   The 10th AEC International Conference, “The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century” will be held live in Vienna, Austria on November 4 and 5, 2021.    Offered by the Austrian Economic Center (AEC) and Foundacion Internacional Bases, the event will not be online or zoom, but a […]

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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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New International Tax Plan Will Come at the Expense of Consumers

By Steve Pociask, American Consumer Institute   Efforts in the last couple of years to produce a new international tax plan to deal with the growth and effects of the digital economy may soon become a potential windfall for many international governments. As countries struggle across the globe from the COVID-19 health crises and the […]

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Washington Beyond the Headlines: When in doubt, raise taxes. That’s the New Jersey way!

By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor   Summer’s over and it’s back to work…well for the rest of us. Not Congress, of course. They are too busy campaigning and recessing to do something as simple and BIPARTISAN as passing coronavirus relief for us working folks. Well, free market policy people are still working — offering […]

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The race for CARES Act (taxpayer) broadband funds

By Johnny Kampis, Taxpayers Protection Alliance   As the race for broadband funds from the CARES Act heats up, policy experts and taxpayer advocates hope the money ends up in the right place to help close the digital divide.   The relief package, passed and signed into law in March, included $150 billion in relief […]

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Washington Beyond the Headlines: Raising Taxes During a Disaster Is A Very Bad Idea

By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor   Here’s some great public mental health advice: stay home, wear a mask, and definitely wear earplugs and blinders when you watch TV news. Or you can just read about free market policy people who are working through the storm, offering perspective and policy options to lead us to […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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Dump anti-business taxes to unleash French potential

“Let’s dismantle our anti-economic taxation before it finishes our economy” By Nicolas Marques, courtesy of Institut économique Molinari    The future is particularly worrying for French society. Companies, suffocated by extraordinary taxation and finicky regulations, have structural competitiveness problems. The previous crises have left their mark, with abnormally high unemployment. The coronavirus strikes a weak economy. In the first […]

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Will Post-Pandemic California Be More Progressive or More Libertarian?

By Kerry Jackson, Pacific Research Institute From government officials to pundits, we’ve been told the world will be a different place after the COVID-19 lockdowns have been lifted. What, one wonders, will California be like? Will it move even further left?   If we’re willing to listen, the pandemic has provided some instructive lessons on […]