By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor July 4 may be past, but it’s always a good time to celebrate Freedom and Liberty. Fortunately Free Market people are always working to help secure these precious possessions with better perspective and policy options. So for Liberty, here’s this week’s news … Freeing Us […]
Tag: drugs
Hey Congress, drug price controls are still a bad idea
Bad ideas have a way of sticking around , but fortunately there’s a home for them called Congress. The recently proposed legislation on drug prices is firmly in this category, relying on what are in effect government-imposed price controls, backed by the threat of […]
UK needs to be cool on drugs (let the Church lead the way)
The British political scene got a little uptight over drugs this week, with reports that top Tory leadership contender and environment secretary Michael Gove used cocaine on a handful of occasions while working as a journalist in the 1990s. The not terribly surprising story first surfaced in Michael Gove: A Man in a […]
EU jeopardizing innovation with IP threats
Philip Stevens, Executive Director, Geneva Network. The European Parliament in April voted through a proposal that will allow generic companies to manufacture and export outside the EU copies of medicines that are still essentially patent protected in Europe. This vote around what’s known as the Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) Export Waiver may […]