The energy crisis in Europe has put the geopolitical risks of depending on wind and solar power, while banning the domestic development of natural gas, at the forefront of the…
The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow tracker downgraded its forecast for Q3 GDP growth again: it has now dropped from 6 percent at the end of July to 1.3 percent now. Then came the…
Inflation is all the rage right now — and for good reason. For the past couple of months, Americans have been paying more for everyday goods and services, and according…
Congressional Democrats are eager to spend $3.5 trillion on a budget reconciliation package that includes a policy known as the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), which would act as a…
In a press conference Wednesday, President Joe Biden threatened that he will call out businesses in the private sector if they do not move to address the supply chain issues…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a new law banning the sale of small, off-road gasoline-powered engines in the Golden State beginning in January of 2024. Under the new regulations,…
At the beginning of 2021, Congress passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package –– namely the American Rescue Plan Act –– which, among other things, expanded the maximum Child Tax Credit (CTC)…
When I started studying for my economics degree in 2007, people’s eyes would glaze over when I told them what I studied. By the time I started my second year…
Evidence is clear that tax hikes, especially those on income, are very harmful to economic growth since they are more distortionary to productive economic activity than other taxes. Income taxes…
The global energy crisis is so large that CNN ran a story detailing how 80 million households in Europe may struggle to pay their heating bills as natural gas and…
Easy come, easy go. Yesterday, an internal technical issue took Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram offline for six hours starting around 10 a.m. CT. Suddenly, if you wanted to know…
Trying to pitch the $3.5 trillion reconciliation spending package, President Joe Biden made an outrageous claim that his Build Back Better Agenda costs $0. Of course, there is a price…
American imports of Russian crude oil and petroleum products hit an all-time high in May of 2021, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Russian imports have…
White House spokesperson Jen Psaki drew a lot of criticism this week when she said that it would be “unfair and absurd” for companies to increase costs for consumers in…
Yesterday I shared an article for Vox by German Lopez which sets out some of the evidence that police reduce crime and violence. Some in the ‘defund’ movement argue that there are…
Proponents of rent control often claim that greedy corporate landlords hold so much power in the market that they are able to take advantage of renters and raise rents excessively.…