By Duggan Flanakin, heartlanddailynews.com Senate Bill 1278, sponsored by state Sen. Kelly Hancock (R-Fort Worth), would require Texas wind and solar companies to pay the costs for backup or supplemental power needed whenever they cannot deliver electricity reliably to the grid. Currently, those costs are imposed on ratepayers. The bill requires the […]
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Washington Beyond the Headlines: An IRS on Steroids
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor Okay everybody, take five. Relax. We have become a nation obsessed with a rush to judgment, an immediate overreaction to almost everything. A policeman stops a teenage girl from knifing another teenage girl and a basketball star — a basketball star! — instantly tweets to attack him. Georgia […]
Washington’s New General in Its Antitrust War
By Edward Longe, American Consumer Institute Shortly after entering office in January 2021, President Joe Biden announced the nomination of Lina Kahn to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Responding to the announcement, the FTC’s Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter stated, “her creative energy, groundbreaking antitrust work, and passion for the FTC’s mission make her an excellent […]
Humanized Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming The Market. Check It Out!
By Instituto Millenium, Brazil The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly common in our daily lives in the most diverse ways, whether to log in to a social network through facial recognition, for companies to optimize service, or even for autonomous cars. However, although AI appears to be efficient, the […]
Who Lives in Rural Areas?
By Randal O’Toole, Cato Institute One of the provisions of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan is to spend $100 billion bringing broadband internet services to “more than 30 million Americans” who live in rural “areas where there is no broadband infrastructure that provides minimally acceptable speeds.” That’s $3,333 per person or about $8,800 […]
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 […]
Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity: Benefits and perils
Lorenzo Pupillo, Stefano Fantin., Afonso Ferreira, Carolina Polito, CEPS Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gradually being integrated into the fabric of business and widely deployed across specific applications use cases. Not all sectors are equally advanced, however: the information technology and telecommunications sector are the most advanced in terms of AI adoption, with the […]
Sweeping Labor Reform Bill, Amazon and Employee Freedom
By Russ Brown, CEO of RWP Labor By now all of America knows that the Amazon employees in Bessemer, Alabama voted to reject unionization by a nearly 3 to 1 margin. Do we know why? This is where spin is taking over the narrative. Main stream media pulled out all the stops trying […]
WeChat or We Don’t Chat? A Total Ban on WeChat Goes Too Far
By Huan Zhu, courtesy of the Cato Institute WeChat is an internet application owned by Chinese tech company Tencent. It may not sound familiar to most Americans, but it is a tool widely used in China and among Chinese communities world‐wide. It is a one‐stop‐shop that combines payment services, social media, messaging platforms, and news outlets. […]
Debunking “Big is Bad”: The Economics of Big Tech
By Liam Sigaud, American Consumer Institute Though calls to break up “Big Tech” — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook — have intensified over the last few years, the logic behind the movement is as tenuous as ever. From the perspective of consumer welfare, the standard that has guided competition policy in the U.S. for […]