Canada: Farmers as Enemies of the State – The Black Art of Wedge Politics

EU: Why gas price caps and consumer subsidies are both extremely costly and ultimately futile

California’s Continued War on Plastics is just Political Grandstanding

Biden Administration Keeps Trade Taxes in Place Indefinitely Pending Further “Review”

Zombie Spending That Just Won’t Die

Stablecoins could make greenback the internet’s reserve currency

Student Loan Forgiveness Treats the Symptoms and Not the Disease

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

Climate Absolutism Works Against LNG, East Coast Pipeline Debate

Newsom Dives In The Deep End

California Faces First Challenge to Income Tax Grab At Out-of-State Businesses

National Microschooling Center

U.S. Economy Shrank Two Quarters

Time for a reset: Could a new prime minister repair the EU–UK relationship?

Ensuring Seniors Can Access New Alzheimer’s Medicines

Canada: Policy on the Frontier – Why Net-zero and ESG Matters to You with Bette Grande

Prominent Short Sellers Target ESG-themed Firms

CPAs Licensed to Kill?

The Latest Form of Discriminatory Digital Tax — Streaming Taxes

Perception and Challenges of Mining in LatAm

Chile’s Left-Wing Constitutional Suicide Pact

The Bond Market Can “Fight the Fed” (And Sometimes Win)

Politically Connected Piggies at the Trough for ‘Inflation’ Bill

European Central Bank’s Gaslighting Defies EU Energy Shortage

California Continues to Push Renewables Despite Energy Storage Problem

Proposed Clean Vehicle Subsidies: Protectionism Trumps Environmentalism

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

Telecoms Mega-Merger Demonstrates the Need to Balance Profit and Job Creation

EU: Unpacking the sense and nonsense behind energy price caps

Four Challenges for Electric Mobility in LatAm

CFPB Has Overstepped its Authority

Sharding and Small-world Networks: the golden needle in the blockchain haystack

The FTC’s Bizarre Move Against Meta’s Purchase of Within

Russian Metal Next Target of Sanctions

U.S. Surface Station Network Is Fatally Flawed, Heartland Report Shows

CBO Issues Warning on Rising Debt, Set to Nearly Double Over 30 Years

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

EU: Managing the energy and food crises: Exceptional times call for exceptional measures

Using the USPS Monopoly as an “Antimonopoly Tool” is a Bad Idea

After Five Months of Bare Infant Formula Shelves, Congress Finally Does the Bare Minimum

Biden’s Inflationary Goal

Weakness of Euro, Pound, Yen, Loonie Are Ominous Signs

Do’s and Don’ts for Policymakers as They Address Inflation

A Closer Look at the Drug Pricing Scheme

Desperate maneuvering

Federal Bureaucracy Threatens 5G’s Future

Certification Program Goes Bananas

FDA to Put ‘Grandfathered’ Drugs Through the Regulatory Wringer

Switzerland: Do We Really Want to Work Less?

Egregious Licensing Rule Holds Working Mothers Back in Tennessee

Summer Forecast: Eastern Europe’s resilience likely to fade as war and inflation pressures mount

Student Loan Forgiveness Would Be Costly and Regressive

Canada: Stagflation Begs for less Government not More

294 Costliest Rules in Biden’s Spring 2022 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations

Argentina: How to Fight School Indoctrination

UK Referendum bill: the logic behind Nicola Sturgeon’s strategic gamble

Congress is Considering a Federal Data Standard, What Consumers Need to Know

More Junk Science 

CBO’s Misleading Description of the Tax Exclusion for Employer‐​Sponsored Health Insurance

Argentina: The effectiveness of the State guides the lives of the population.

Colorado Moves the Ball on Housing Affordability Reform—Will Other States Pick It Up?

Supreme Court Reins in the Administrative State in West Virginia v. EPA

Medicare to Limit Payment for New Alzheimer’s Drug

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Continues to Attack the Financial Industry

Housing is Not Health Care and Medicaid Must Not Pay Rent

Economists Still Believe in The Price Mechanism

Fintech Faces Regulatory Peril

Competition Policy and the Infant Formula Market

IS IT POSSIBLE TO ABOLISH POVERTY BY ONE SINGLE LAW? THE CASE OF THE ITALIAN UNIVERSAL MINIMUM INCOME PROJECT

The Many Arbitrary and Capricious Aspects of SEC’s Climate Risk Disclosure Rule

No Evidence of Climate Crisis

Congress Explores Relief for Small Businesses Impacted by SCOTUS Wayfair Decision

Journalistic Misunderstandings About the PPI

What Can California Do About Dead Malls?

Why Elon Musk’s war on ESG matters—and How Republicans Can Win It by defunding ESG

How Washington makes it worse

Ninth Circuit Ruling Against Washington State Couple Opens Door to Wealth Taxes

Are Hospital Mergers Good for Patient Care? Or Just Good Business?

GAO Report Shows a Dizzying Array of Federal Broadband Programs

Seniors Pay for Medicare’s Mistake

Wildfires Are Exacerbated by Poor Forest Management Practices

Healthcare: Two bad ideas

Canada: People, Vote for Better Energy Policy, Fast

Eleven Lousy Tech Bills from the 117th Congress: Fair Repair Act

Shipping Protectionism Undermines U.S. Efforts to Address Brewing Food Crisis

Eradicating the “Conscience Rule” Will Worsen the Doctor Shortage

Greening the Australian party system

SEC’s Climate Rule Would Harm Small Businesses

The United States applied the highest interest rate hike in 20 years: how does it affect the Argentine economy?

The Fed Minutes Add New Humility and Flexibility

More Staycations This Summer, Thanks to Biden’s Gas Price-Raising Agenda

President Biden Approves Summer Sales of E15

Retail Pharmacy Paranoia Is Understandable–But Patients Are The Real Victims

New Congressional Effort to Crack Down on Big Tech

Canada: Via Rail, a Business That Would Not Be Created Today

EU: The good, the bad and the ugly of the Conference on the Future of Europe

Ninth Circuit Reverses Federal Win on Challenge to Ban on State Tax Cuts

Baby Formula and Regulatory Failure

What $300 Million for Two Pizzas Might Mean for Blockchain Legislation and Regulation

Fed’s Monetary Stimulus Continues Despite Claims to the Contrary

To endure global crises, the United States needs to better protect domestic innovation

California, Sunny With A Near-100% Chance Of Blackouts

China Competition Bill Shouldn’t Punish U.S. Farmers, Manufacturers, and Workers

EU: Digital product passports: What does the Sustainable Products Initiative bring?

Ten Terrible Tech Bills from the 117th Congress: Platform Competition and Opportunity Act

“Call for a vote, Mr. Chairman!”

Yellen, Crypto, and Risk of Loss

Proposed Mergers Act Codifies Big Is Bad

Nomad Visa in Argentina: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Public trust, safety, and genetic engineering

Why Did the IRS Destroy 30 Million Paper Records Before Processing Them?

EU: Mélenchon may prove to be the real challenger to Macron’s presidency

McCaughey: Biden’s Rising Food Prices

Argentina: Six proposals to create productive jobs and generate higher income

Distinguishing Home‐​Grown Inflation from Global Inflation

Ten Terrible Tech Bills from the 117th Congress: EARN IT Act

Renewable Energy Prices Are Rising

Canada: Cheap Coal Could Pay for Greenhouse Gas Remediation

Gas Price Shenanigans Won’t Help Consumers

Antitrust Shows That Bad Policy Is Bipartisan

James Madison and … Cryptocurrency? 

Fiscal support and monetary vigilance: economic policy implications of the Russia-Ukraine war for the European Union

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

Markets Show the Perils of Arbitrary Antitrust Legislation

A Bad Day for Incandescent Light Bulbs – and Freedom of Choice

Canada, U.S. Cities With Largest CBDs Lost Population

Postal Banking Still Lingers, It’s Time to Close the Loophole

EU: Equal taxes? Lower taxes!

The Updated Case for Free Trade

Would Microsoft’s Proposed Activision Merger Be Positive for Consumers?

‘State of the Planet’ Is Good, No Climate Crisis in Sight

EU: New Tax Slovakia Has Had for Long Time

Countering Civil Forfeiture Myths with Facts

UK: How can we tame the inflation tiger?

Myopic IRIS Program Could Blindside Taxpayers

EU: The moral cost of ‘social peace’ in Germany

ECASH?

Celebrate What Earth Has Given Man

New Inflation Numbers Show Folly of Price Controls

Disqualify Sanction-Busting Airbus From U.S. Defense Contracts Now

Canada: The Federal Climate Plan – Far Out of Touch with the World, with First Nations, with its Regions, and the Feds J...

Global inequality at lowest level for 140 years

Fuel Producers, States Challenge New EPA Rule Effectively Mandating Electric Vehicles

Free Labor Markets Benefit Workers and Businesses

Medicare: Illegal “Fix”

EU: HOW DOES GLOBAL MINIMUM TAX HURT DEVELOPING NATIONS?

Remember When Critics Said We Rely on China for Pharmaceuticals? Not so Fast

‘ESG’ Efforts to Rid the World of Fossil Fuels Will Drive Humanity Back to Medieval Times

Argentina: Inflation in food does not cave: It has already risen 4,6% in March

Elon Musk’s Purchase of Twitter Stock Is an Important Reminder of How Capitalism Works

Ignore the Union Siren Song

The CFPB Has a Dim View of Other Federal Regulators

Delusional Climate Extremism, Reliance on Autocracies, and Vapid Leadership Equals War

Back to the Future or Back to the Past? The Implications of Revisiting the Gas Tax

Georgia’s Social Media Regulations Would Make Things Worse, not Better

New FERC Guidance Adds Climate Considerations to Natural Gas Pipeline Approval Process

New Report Highlights Importance of Mergers and Acquisitions

With an early Alzheimer’s diagnosis, my wife might still be living at home

Biden’s Budget Deficits

EU: One-Dimensional Healthcare COVID-19 Policy

How Congress Can Boost Ocean Shipping

Rent Control Can’t Stop Soaring Housing Rents

The Patent Eligibility “Quagmire” 

Former IRS Heads Ought to Know: Don’t Rush Into a Gov’t-Run “Return-Free” Scheme

UK: Is it too late to save the economy?

Cap On Travel Nurse Pay Is Bad for Patients

Case Studies on Smart Zoning Reforms, Part Four: Removing Parking Requirements in Buffalo, New York

Government and Business Leaders Must Step Up to Stem the Healthcare Worker Shortage

The Iron(y) in Steel Protectionism

Russia’s War on Ukraine Hits Critical Mineral Supply Chains: A Look at Nickel

Alternative Technologies Will Not Provide Budget Relief to Hard Working Families

Switzerland, the Land of Subsidies

Refreshing real-world facts

Canada: The Failed Economics of Carbon Taxes

Antitrust Bill Puts Consumer Data At Risk 

Congress Tried Fiscal Responsibility for Once. It Lasted About 16 Hours.

Cereal exports: Ukraine default hits African countries hard

U.S. EPA’s Revised Water Rule Expands Federal Control over Private and State Lands

The Unintelligible Psaki‐​Biden Theory of Oil Prices

Case Studies on Smart Zoning Reforms, Part Two: Portland, Oregon’s Accessory Dwelling Units

How to Retain U.S. Foundational R&D Leadership Over China

Wealth Taxes Are Economic Failures

American Consumers Find Savings in High-Speed Internet but GONs Threaten to Erase Progress

Switzerland: When Politicians Pull the Plug

Fiscal Illusion

How Did COVID-19 Impact the Canadian Manufacturing Sector?

Corn Ethanol More Environmentally Harmful than Gasoline, Says Study

Antitrust Legislation Needs to Weigh the Benefits of Big Tech

Argentina: Inflation is the main income source of the National Treasury

Case Studies on Smart Zoning Reforms, Part One: Houston, Texas

U.S. Protectionism Gives Boost to Russian Energy Imports

The Stakes Just Got Higher – The State of U.S. Critical Mineral Resource Security

California Should Embrace Nuclear in Race to Meet All Renewables Mandate

Canada: How Long Will Investor Confidence Last?

Investors Are Increasingly Shunning Green Energy Stocks and Funds

The Big Tech Self-​Preferencing Panic

UK: Appeasement and the Ukraine crisis: the whiff of Munich?

EU: Deregulate to Boost the Economy

Economic Forces Are Competing; Inflation Will Win

Living With The Climate Karens

FCC & NTIA Agreement Is a Step In The Right Direction

Buttigieg’s Latest Scheme to Shut-down Your Family’s Car

VA Gov. Youngkin Takes Steps to Remove Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

The Empty Case for Stakeholder Capitalism and ESG Investing

Empowering Government to “Fix” Big Tech is a Cure Worse Than the Disease

DOE’s War on Career Colleges Will Harm the Very Students it Seeks to Help

The Fed Doesn’t Rule the Stock Market

States Have Until April 1 to Use UI Funds Without New Federal Conditions

An Economy on the Rebound: What Next?

UK: Unchecked inflation: will restaurants pay the price?

Biden Administration to Scrap Trump-era Plan to Expand Drilling in National Petroleum Reserve

Argentina: Another government chooses gradualism

IRS Train Wreck

Is Space the Final Frontier – Imagine?

An Environmental Assault By Batteries

Biden Climate, Energy Policies’ Costs: High and Rising

A Primer on Inflation and Fiscal Policy

In 2022, Will Congress Pass an Agenda that Hurts Small Businesses and Their Workers?

UK: Average household will pay over £1 million in tax in a lifetime

Real Earnings Should Stop Falling If Energy Prices Stop Rising

A Better Way to Go After Big Tech

EURO FINANCING, A STRATEGY FOR EU SURVIVAL

Canada poised to join expanding number of countries endorsing crop gene editing. That’s encouraging – but global reform ...

Washington State Adds Further Complexity to the Privacy Hodgepodge

UK: Inflation: the tax imposed without representation

Already, IRS Miscues Are Making a Complicated Tax Filing Season More Complicated

On the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, “Fair Access”, and Vertical Integration

Americans Mainly Reject Labor Unions

Argentina: “New taxes on personal assets reduce economic freedom”

A Failing Grade

Dozens of Natural Gas-Fueled Power Plants Are Under Construction in the United States

Let the Sun Set on Solar Tariffs

UK: Transatlantic security cooperation: another stalemate?

The Search for Workers is Complicated by New Businesses Taking Flight

Bringing Britain’s woes to North America?

South Carolina Regulators Reject Duke Energy’s Coal Closure Plan

EU: Decarbonisation of the energy system

A Pandemic Broken Windows Fallacy?

Universal Health Care Back For Another Try

IRS Faces Skeptical Questioning from Supreme Court in Boechler “One Day Late” Case

Priorities

The bioengineered food label is not expected to have any benefits to human health or the environment

GOP and Democrat Antitrust Focus Unwittingly Helps China

Argentina: Can we afford not to export?

OSHA Vax Mandate on the Ropes

EUROPE: NO MAGIC WAND FOR PUBLIC DEBT, EXCEPT…

Businesses Sue Over California Animal Welfare Law

The U.S. Should Evaluate Safety Concerns While Avoiding Unnecessary 5G Delays

Fostering a Constructive, Business-Friendly Regime Sustains Innovation, Not Government Money

The Profound Junk Science of Climate

SALT Cap Constitutional Challenge Faces Long Odds at Supreme Court

British Antitrust Reforms are Bad Example for U.S.

Arizona Republic Report Leaves Out Important Details and Context On Universal Licensing

The Nuclear Alternative

Farmers and Ranchers – The Unsung Heroes of 2021

The Produce Cartels

Director Chopra’s FDIC Power Grab Yet Another Reason to Rein-in the CFPB

The FDA Should Provide Guidance Based on Sound Science

Antitrust Proposals Could Leave Consumers Vulnerable

Biden Administration to Overturn Trump Water Quality Rules and Revive WOTUS

Producer Prices for Goods Rise and Fall with Oil Prices

Biden Administration Takes on the “Cozy Sugar Industry” — Or Does It?

The Renewable Part of Hydrogen is the Hype

Covid’s Gales of Change: A Golden Age for Entrepreneurs?

Congress, Again, Lacks Any Fiscal Fortitude on Sequestration and PAYGO

Patent Trolls Hurt Consumers and Access to Broadband Connectivity

Biden’s Climate Policies Damage America, Democrats, and the Climate

Dying Transit Industry Grasps for Solutions

UK: Voters’ evaluations of the impact of COVID-19 and Brexit

Policymakers Must Recognize Mergers Can Benefit Consumers

Senator Warren’s Corporate Minimum Tax Analysis Is Deeply Flawed

‘Side Issues’ Result in Much Higher Costs to Our Health and Social Systems

The Rock Hardness Of California Climate Imagery

Merck Antiviral Drug Moves Closer to Approval

Why is Congress About to Declare War on Seniors? – Commentary

Argentina: Deal with the IMF: An opportunity to remedy inflation-driven instability?

On China’s Trade Practices, the United States Is Ramping Up Efforts with Allies

Has the Pandemic Shifted the Labor Market to a New Normal?

The (missing) link between temperature and economic growth

IRS Announces Inflation Adjustments to 2022 Tax Brackets

Global Minimum Tax Is Cartel Scam with Loopholes

Michigan Gov. Whitmer Sparks an International Pipeline Dispute between the United States and Canada

The Midwest Rail Plan: A Disaster Waiting to Happen

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Twice the Size of Texas is Fake

UK: A tax on responsibility?

The Consumer Welfare Standard Does More to Promote Competition Than Overzealous Antitrust Legislation

Close the Digital Divide with Private Investment and Competition

Research & Commentary: Michigan House Considering Harmful Minimum Wage Hike

Germany in the EU after Merkel: A view from Italy

Germany in the EU after Merkel: A view from the Nordics

More Regulation Will Not Improve Port Efficiency

NZ: Housing Crisis Solved?

Argentina: A long story of price controls and inflation

What Would You Do With a $20 Tax Cut?

Global inequality at lowest level for 140 years

As Inflation Hits 30-Year High, Chinese Economic Problems Could Hammer U.S. Economy

USPS Need Changes as Fiscal Chaos Deepens

International Declaration on Market Environmentalism

Penalties for Violating OSHA’s Proposed “Vaccine Mandate”

UK-Canada Nuclear Fusion Project Could Generate Jobs, Unite Climate Alarmists and Skeptics

EU enlargement to the Western Balkans – Three observations

Critical Mineral Shortages Threaten to Undermine the Political Drive for Electric Vehicles

Proprietary Colleges Crackdowns Will Harm Students

Steel and Tariffs: How Bad Trade Policy Hurts Americans

Why Millennials Prefer DIY Investing

The UK’s Greening Finance Roadmap

Should the Bankrupt Feds Subsidize Cash‐​Flush States?

Getting the Drug Spending Facts Right

IRS Wants Data on Your eBay Sales

Lawmakers Break Free from Logic with Anti-Plastic, “Climate” Legislation

Monstrous Sugar Program Costs Americans Billions

UK: Taxpayers deserve a level playing field between HMRC and Jobcentre Plus

Washington beyond the headlines: Democrat Civil War?

Making the Child Tax Credit an Annual Extender Would Be a Fiscal Disaster

FDA to Consider Pricier Alternative to COVID-19 Early Treatment Drugs

Federal Subsidies for Electric Cars Should Not Be Increased

FDA Quietly Changed Ivermectin Warning After Criticism – Commentary

Beijing’s Minions Don’t Belong on Canadian Stock Exchanges

Gas-Powered Lawn Equipment Ban Another Major Burden on Minority Entrepreneurs

EU crash course in geopolitics: Navigating the transatlantic minefield

Tax Rates on the Rich

The Real Estate Exposure of the Bank of England Questions its Independence as Rate Setter

Read the Bill!

Washington beyond the headlines: Feeling the Debt Ceiling

Moderna Suspensions Raise Alarm

The new German government faces the challenge of a hollowed-out political system

More Certainty Still Needed Before Implementing Global Tax Agreement

Immigration Law Creates a Lose-Lose Scenario for America

Canada: Toxic Plastiphobia

China’s CPTPP membership bid

New Analysis Shows Build Back Better Could Put American Companies at a “Meaningful Competitive Disadvantage”

Market Economy Beats Planned Economy

Central Banking and Climate Change

Washington beyond the headlines: More Government? What is this, China?

Antitrust Reform Would Harm Workers, Not Help Them

Medicare for “Y’all” Means Better Deal for Some, Not Others – Commentary

Mexico: Gender Roles In The Wage Gap

Medicaid Blowout

Why Cash is Still King in Switzerland

California Desperate for Fossil Fuel to Keep the Lights On

Washington beyond the headlines: Death, Covid and, of course, Taxes

Everything We Don’t Need to Know about How the Economy Works

Chile: Back to Normal

Environment: Computer Models, Like “Selfies,” are not Reality

Congress Shouldn’t Let the IRS Snoop on America’s Bank Accounts

Biden Urges OPEC to Increase Its Oil Output to Offset Rising Prices

Girl Power in Pakistan

Washington beyond the headlines: Red Menace, and Teacher Menace

Explaining the International Tax Provisions in the House Reconciliation Bill

Germany: Air pollution reduces electoral support for government parties

Austria: Risks of an antitrust turn in the U.S

Blaming U.S. Passenger Vehicles for Climate Change Is Ignorant but Lucrative

Big Tech’s Big Consumer Wins

The Case for Electric Vehicles Is Losing Its Charge

Washington Beyond The Headlines: Dang, Taxes Again

New IRS Rule on Small Businesses Sends Them to Bizarro World

The Compelling Case for Selling Canada’s Water to the U.S.

Confiscating Entire Wealth of All US Billionaires Couldn’t Pay for Democratic Spending Plans

High Prices, Competition, and the Biden Administration

CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Slow-Built Rail

Back To School Season Highlights Heavy Burden of Tariffs on Families and Students

Facebook is Back in Court

Biden’s American Families Plan Poised to Harm Families through the Death Tax

France — Afghanistan: Joe Biden has bet on the American defeat from the start

Critical Economic Theory

UK: The European Central Bank’s revised monetary policy strategy

The FTC’s Absurd Attempts At Defining Facebook’s Product Market

The Political Pill for COVID

Washington Beyond The Headlines: Bigger Brother Watching You

Focus on the Problem, Please

Denmark: The Danish economy needs reforms, dynamism and reality checks

Should the Government Tell Americans What Kind of Car to Drive?

Chile: Mining royalty and its consequences

Republicans Should Defend the Consumer Welfare Standard 

Washington Beyond The Headlines: It’s the Infrastructure, Stupid

Apple’s iPhone: Now With Built‐​In Surveillance

What could explain the gender pay gap in the labor market?

As Postal Losses Grow, Regulatory Scrutiny Reaches a Boiling Point

Restaurants Are Winning the Fight With Cities Trying to Ban Gas-Powered Stove

Irish economy to record double digit growth as exports surge

Too Many Rules Block DPC – New Report

Flawed New Carbon Tariff Bill Belongs in the Dustbin

Creating Two-Part Drug Pricing System Would Ensure Prices More Accurately Reflect How Patients Value a Drug

Washington Beyond The Headlines: Special Not-Olympics Edition

How Profits Created the Prosperity We Enjoy Today

How to Increase Housing Flexibility for Low-Income Americans

Argentina: Restrictions to the right to choose union health care insurance are once again applied to the detriment of wo...

Wasteful Corporate Subsidy Programs Should be Eliminated

House Passes Bill Requiring U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to Create ESG Disclosure Regulations

Washington Beyond The Headlines: Surviving Summer in the Swamp

EU–South Asia relations in the 21st century: Rethink, reimagine, reshape

Review of the Emerging Evidence on Ivermectin