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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Minimum Wage in a Complex Scenario
By LyD (Libertad y Desarrollo, Chile) The Chilean labor market has been deeply impacted by the pandemic and the quarantines decreed, which has led to a combined rate of unemployment and potential workforce (SU3) of 21.3% in the quarter January-March of this year. Added to this substantial imbalance is that 26.7% of those employed are […]
Housing Bubble Stems from Exorbitant Deficits: Feds Need to Attract Investment, Not Debt
By Paz Gomez, Frontier Centre For Public Policy The macro effects of government stimuli to address COVID-19 lockdowns are starting to emerge. In Canada, they have taken the form of an overheating housing market. With mortgage rates plunging to historic lows, the demand for residential real estate is driving prices through the roof. […]
Waiving TRIPS Will Not Solve Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccine
By Edward Longe, American Consumer Institute The COVID-19 pandemic has, among other things, highlighted the need for global cooperation during a public health crisis. Recognizing this need, 100 developing countries, led by South Africa and India, requested the World Trade Organization (WTO) waive provisions of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property […]
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 […]
Afghanistan, the F-35, and the Pentagon: An Opportunity for Conservatives to Rein in the Waste
By Robert Kuykendall With America’s longest war apparently – and finally – coming to an end, the Biden administrations faces critical decisions when it comes to the transition out of Afghanistan. Of particular importance, the lives and welfare of thousands of Afghan translators and their families depend on being granted safe passage to […]
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” […]
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 […]
Congress: Ensure Mid-Band is Part of 5G Future
By Derek Hosford, American Consumer Institute While the Biden administration announced its plan to deliver high-speed internet access to every American in March, auctions for mid-band spectrum broke spending records, showing that mid-band needs to play a critical role in that effort. Spectrum refers to the invisible radio frequencies that […]
An Appalling Theft
By Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute The Biden administration made “the single worst presidential economic decision since Nixon’s wage-and-price controls,” The Wall Street Journal wrote in a lead editorial last week. And we agree. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said the U.S. would agree to “waive” intellectual property rights to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments and encourage other […]