“Regulating big tech: the Digital Markets Act” By Julia Anderson and Mario Mariniello, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute Digital market forces drive huge efficiency gains. But they also create winner-take-all dynamics that can, left unchecked, lead to monopolistic markets and hurt consumers in the long-run. Slow-moving competition policy tools are ill-equipped to fully address […]
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Powell Signals Accommodative Policy, But Questions Remain on Inflation Targets
“Powell Reiterates Commitment to Accommodative Policy As Vaccinations Remain the Key to Recovery” By Marc Dupont, courtesy of the Mercatus Center As the virus-stricken U.S. economy transitions into 2021, many are just beginning to see the light approaching at the end of the tunnel. President Joe Biden was sworn into office on January 20, […]
Low income households suffer the most from lockdowns
Courtesy of the Austrian Economics Center The coronavirus has dominated all of our lives in recent months. Radical paths were taken by politicians in the form of lockdowns to contain the pandemic. But we should recognize that even if the coronavirus is a (major) challenge for us, we always have to keep a holistic […]
ObamaCare: Democrats Promise Throwing $36 Billion at Healthcare Will Work This Time
By Michael F. Cannon, courtesy of the Cato Institute House Democrats are proposing a temporary but massive $34 billion increase in subsidies for ObamaCare plans. The proposal would offer its largest subsidies to high‐income earners. It would offer more subsidies on behalf of men than women. It would cover few previously uninsured individuals, and at […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Will Medicare Cuts Be The Price Of Partisanship?
By Andy Blom, TES Correspondent After a Wild Card team with a 43 year old quarterback won the Super Bowl we once again believe anything can happen in America. Who knows…maybe taxes will go down…maybe regulations will disappear…maybe COVID-19 will vanish…maybe Government will stop spending us into debt. But until that happens and pigs […]
A California Energy Lesson From Europe
By Kerry Jackson, Pacific Research Institute Days before Joe Biden and former Sen. Kamala Harris took the oath of office, the Los Angeles Times said California was “emerging as the de facto policy think tank” of a Democrat-controlled Washington. This doesn’t inspire confidence in those who see up close that the best California can offer is […]
5G Can Put the U.S. Economy into Hyperdrive if States Allow It
By Edward Longe, American Consumer Institute The Biden Administration has promised to get broadband out the all Americans. However, wiring the U.S. may not the best means to accomplish this, considering that there are already more wireless subscriptions in the U.S. than people. As wireless services continue to become much faster, a more effective […]
Decentralized Finance Is The Future Of Banking
By Bradley Allgood & Oliver Gale Tesla’s $1.5 billion buy has Bitcoin soaring to new highs. It’s another powerful signal the market is shifting to a decentralized finance system that is transparent and secure, open to all, and immune to manipulation by political factions. Decentralized finance is based on a distributed network […]
Growing Evidence Shows COVID-19 Treatments Are Working
Just over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple drug treatments are finally breaking through the veil of confusion that has obscured these safe, widely used medications. A growing body of evidence supports combinations of oral therapies including ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), doxycycline, azithromycin, steroids, and blood thinners, along with zinc and vitamin D. With […]
Kansas Dropped The Ball on COVID-19 Response
If you were at the Okun Fieldhouse COVID-19 vaccination center in Shawnee last Tuesday, you could witness the mortifying spectacle of senior citizens forced to line up in the freezing cold to get their first shot, an embarrassing planning failure which one senior’s family member called a “zoo.” Once concerned citizen’s email to Johnson […]