A Furious Hungary Threatens To Veto Europe’s Green New Deal
A Furious Hungary Threatens To Veto Europe’s Green New Deal Yesterday, to much fanfare the EU unveiled an absurd set of climate change and emissions targets for 2030 which will …
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Why Biden’s Broadband Bonanza Is Likely to Fail
Never-ending infrastructure week is back, baby, and it’s bigger than ever! The Biden-Harris administration’s proposed infrastructure-jobs bill is both expensive—with a $2 trillion sticker price—and expansive. What isn’t infrastructure, these …
Biden’s New Budget Plan Means Trump-Era Mega Spending Will Continue
The reality of federal spending under Donald Trump did much to put to rest the obviously wrong and long-disproved notion that Republicans are the political party of “fiscal responsibility.” With …
Joe Biden’s No-Boondoggle-Left-Behind Plan
Joe Biden’s No-Boondoggle-Left-Behind Plan Authored by Jim Bovard, “Government must be a powerful force for good in the lives of Americans,” White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese announced on March …
200th Anniversary of a Great American Demolition of Tyranny
This is the 200th anniversary of the publication of one of the best American books on trade policy by one of the most thoughtful and least appreciated political analysts of …
Big Tech, Voting Rights, and Weed
The Reason Roundtable mixes it up this week with the usual host, Matt Welch, vaccinated and vacationing. In his absence, Peter Suderman leads the weekly discourse with Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick …
The True Nature of Social Security Revealed
A friend who opted to take early Social Security benefits at age 62 last late last year was aghast when he recently found out that half of his benefits might …
The Odd Decouple
The Odd Decouple By Michael Every of Rabobank The Odd Decouple Yesterday saw Fed-dy bears return to the site of the picnic massacre with Sriracha sauce and take out those …
Why a Green New Deal Is More Expensive Than Joe Biden Realizes
Wind and solar power can work well when placed in an ideal location. Much of the time, however, these projects require a lot of fossil fuel to produce, but then …
Lin Yutang, a Classical Liberal Voice for a Free China
China Rising! The news media has stories every day about China’s continued positioning as a geopolitical and economic “power” on the international stage. Beijing says its economy will have strong …