By Uri Dadush and Andre Sapir, Bruegel The European Union is very open to foreign direct investment. By comparison, despite considerable liberalisation in the past two decades, foreign investors in China’s markets still face significant restrictions, especially in services sectors. Given this imbalance, the EU has long sought to improve the situation […]
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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 […]
Congress Misses the Mark on the INFORM Act
By Edward Longe, American Consumer Institute On March 23, 2021, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators led by Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers (INFORM Consumers) Act. If the INFORM Act becomes law, it would “direct online retail marketplaces…to authenticate the identity […]
The Price of Drug Controls: Patient Care and Innovation
By Jim Edwards, Executive Director, Conservative Property Rights The bad idea of “international reference pricing” is raising its ugly head again. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reintroduced H.R. 3, which contains several government price controls and other punitive measures. Among them is international reference pricing. So is government price-fixing of 250 medicines […]
Protect the Rights of Independent Contractors
By Edward Longe, American Consumer Institute Of all the economic changes the United States has experienced over the past decade, none have been so profound as full-time employees shunning traditional 9 to 5 employment in favor of the flexibility offered by independent contract work. In 2020 alone, 3 in 10 full-time workers left traditional […]
Should EU regulators treat Big Tech as natural monopolies?
“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 […]
European Voices Beginning to Side with US on Important Trade Issues
By George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom European businesses who are paying the economic price for the European Union’s illegal subsidies to Airbus are now siding with the US and its attempt to resolve the EU’s illegal launch aid to Airbus. Because of more than a decade of flagrant and illegal subsidies the EU has […]
Competitive Spectrum Policies Keep America Online
By Oliver McPherson-Smith, American Consumer Institute Video conferences, online classrooms, and telehealth have all become mainstream in 2020. This huge change has been made feasible by federal policies that focus on getting the most value out of America’s telecommunications resources. To replicate this success and avoid future waste, access to American spectrum needs to […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Feds Shouldn’t Cover State Budget Shortfalls
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor They say bad things come in threes. Well, we’ve had a pandemic, a wave of protests and riots, so what else does 2020 have in store for us? But no matter the obstacles, free market policy people keep right on working, offering perspective and policy options to lead […]
UK needs tax cuts, regulatory clear-out to speed recovery
“New report outlines deregulatory and tax-cutting measures to reboot Britain” By Julian Jessop and Len Shackleton, courtesy of IEA The uncertainty created by the COVID-19 crisis has reinvigorated many old debates about the role of the state, says a new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs and Civitas, written by IEA Economics Fellow […]