By Mark Pfeifle and Bob Jensen While Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer was steering bipartisan legislation to stimulate major investments in science through the Senate, his former chief counsel, acting Federal Trade Commission chairwoman, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, was leading the FTC in an unprecedented effort to block a merger of two U.S. companies […]
By William Yeatman, Cato Institute All told, Congress has authorized about $5.9 trillion in spending to address the social and economic fallout from the pandemic, of which $4.1 trillion has been disbursed or committed through the present, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s “COVID Money Tracker.” By now, more than […]
By Dr. Julián de Diego, Libertad y Progreso The dehumanizing process of HR sectors at corporations has begun. It is a metamorphosis that implies the application of exponential technologies to replace human labor through artificial intelligence. As a result of the accelerated pace of digitalization imposed on all activities by the pandemic, the […]
By Ivano di Carlo and Shada Islam, European Policy Centre Amid the intense competition underway between the US and China and the increasing presence of Russia, China, Turkey, Iran and Britain in the Indo-Pacific, the EU must build better bilateral relations with all South Asian countries – and not just India. […]
Writing in The Hill, David Balto, a former policy director of the Federal Trade Commission in the Obama Administration, and Wayne Winegarden, an economist with the Pacific Research Institute, discuss the growing pressure on public officials to address anti-competitive industry practices known as “rebate walls” or “rebate traps”. “Rebates and discounts are generally […]
By Philip Stevens, Geneva Network Last week the United States unexpectedly announced that it would join India, South Africa and others in supporting a proposal at the World Trade Organization to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights for Covid vaccines. In theory, this would free up other companies to make copies of proprietary vaccines […]
By Will Yepez, National Taxpayers Union Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Angus King (I-ME) recently introduced the Broadband Reform and Investment to Drive Growth in the Economy (BRIDGE) Act of 2021 (S. 2071). This well-intentioned legislation would provide $40 billion in funding to states, Tribal governments, U.S. territories, and […]
By Selena Zito, Heartland John F. Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said only months ago that those losing fossil fuel jobs in coal and hydraulic fracturing will find they have a better choice of jobs either in the solar industry or as wind turbine technicians. That was then. Now, a wind […]
By Ryan McMaken, Fundación Internacional Bases In the context of trade and immigration, borders are often explained as a means of excluding foreign workers. Thinking in a certain way, borders offer an opportunity for states to exclude private actors, such as workers, merchants and entrepreneurs. On the contrary, borders can also serve a […]
By Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute Today we are focusing on the latter in an article just published in The Hill, written by leading long-term care expert Steve Moses and Galen Senior Fellow and Medicaid expert Brian Blase. The title says it all: “Using Medicaid to protect inheritances.” Here’s the issue: Many affluent Americans are hiring […]