“Clipped Wings: How Excessive Red Tape Holds Back the Drone Industry” By Adam Thierer, Michael Kotrous, and Connor Haaland, courtesy of the Mercatus Center Throughout much of human history, technological innovation has raised living standards and saved lives. But when regulators prioritize red tape over experimentation, these opportunities can quickly be lost. Unmanned […]
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To fight entrenched poverty, Egypt MUST reform
“Why Egypt is not on a path to end its long struggle with poverty” By Mahmoud Farouk, courtesy of Atlas Network In 1979, Fouad Ajami wrote that Egypt finds herself between her “pride and place, between her limited material resources and her unbounded psychological esteem for herself, between her old glory and her current poverty.” […]
Time for a new generation of cities?
By Erik Sass, TES Editor-in-Chief One interesting (and paradoxically characteristic) aspect of our frenetic modern world is how rarely we found new cities. After all, for thousands of years it was perfectly normal to “pick up sticks” and start a new settlement. Most of the great cities of Europe are products of Greek, […]
Without reform the EU will self-destruct
“How to Destroy the European Union” By Prince Michael of Liechtenstein, courtesy of ECAEF and GIS Once, the “European idea” helped unite a war-weary continent. Now, overbearing central authorities, suffocating bureaucracies and reams of red tape are limiting the freedom that idea once promised. Europeans are losing trust in their […]
New bill would legalize agricultural labor (but E-Verify is still a disaster)
“Bipartisan Bill Increases Legal Migration & Legalizes Farmworkers” By David Bier, courtesy of the Cato Institute A bipartisan group of about 50 House members, equally divided between both parties, introduced legislation today that expands both permanent and temporary migration for agriculture, while legalizing illegal farmworkers. The Farm Workforce Modernization Act will be […]
Blocking GM crops has killed, blinded millions of children
It’s an article of faith among many environmentalists that genetically modified (GM) foods are bad. Why? Apparently because they came out a laboratory and science is bad (never mind that virtually all the foods we already eat were already genetically modified, by painstaking selective breeding by our ancestors over thousands of years). Of […]
Quixotic: Spain leads Europe in meaningless bureaucracy for small biz
Courtesy of Civismo Spain is the country in which small businesses must spend the most hours dealing with bureaucracy. This is the takeaway from a new international comparison, Bureaucracy Index 2019, for which several European think tanks, including Civismo, calculated […]
Urgent reforms needed to help Argentine entrepreneurs succeed
Courtesy of Libertad y Progreso The reality of Argentine entrepreneurs is arduous. With growing inflation, the highest taxes in the world, Kafkaesque regulations, and overflowing labor costs, it is not surprising that in Argentina only 15% of the economically active population owns a business […]
Electronic Health Records: A Good Idea, Poorly Executed
By Davis Warnell and Sloane Shearman, courtesy of the Mercatus Center The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (popularly known as the “stimulus”) required all healthcare providers to adopt the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in their daily practice in order to sustain their Medicaid and […]
DOL Safeguards Religious Liberty, HUD Tackles Zoning Discrimination & more: WASHINGTON BEYOND THE HEADLINES
By Andy Blom, TES Contributor While Congress tries to decide if they need to come back from vacation…oops, recess…for a special session to not do anything about gun control, President Trump floats the idea of buying Greenland. Wow! Washington at work! Still, free market conservatives […]