Have you watched this video yet? Three million others have (and counting). American Experiment released the video last month to promote our recent report titled Shattered Green Dreams: The Environmental…
Minnesota utilities face a state deadline to provide 100 percent of power from carbon-free sources by 2040, just 15 years from now. It’s a pipe dream, given the unreliability of…
A new nuclear power plant will be built to replace a Wyoming coal plant slated to retire in 2025. The new nuclear power plant will be constructed by TerraPower, a…
Pre-COVID, the supply of and demand for middle-skill workers created a mismatch in our labor market. The “skills gap” pushed employers to come up with solutions that would combat the…
Tesla's co-founder and CEO Elon Musk wants young people to know that getting a four-year degree is not the only way into top companies. He looks for "evidence of exceptional…
But has that made the average American any better off?
It makes everyone richer.
Raising taxes for redistribution efforts is not an efficient way to reduce inequality due to one important reason; raising taxes especially for redistributive purposes reduces economic growth. This translates to…
If you ever bought anything from Amazon, you chose to help make Jeff Bezos a billionaire.
Creating value does not hurt the poor; it makes everyone richer. This counterpoint originally appeared in the Star Tribune on August 23, 2019. The Star Tribune missed an opportunity to…
Bloomberg reports that El Niño has caused electricity generation from wind turbines to plummet by approximately 14 percent in the Midwest this year. Apparently, it is quite common that wind…
Kids around the country are skipping school to draw attention to climate change, but why don’t these kids demand real solutions to a problem they find so severe they must…
British journalist and politician Daniel Hannan recently wrote a smart defense of high CEO pay in the Washington Examiner. His are arguments rarely heard among the leftist shouts to “abolish…
“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another” - Milton Friedman
Sen. Warren's "Accountable Capitalism Act" fundamentally misunderstands business and the free market system. That is why it is such a rotten bit of legislation. Let us hope it doesn't make…
Why did SAB Miller and Molson Coors have to get permission to merge from the Department of Justice? Monopoly. Why was that a problem? It wasn't.
Editor’s Note: One of the most important themes in last month’s elections had to do with the many millions of Americans who believe they are stuck in place occupationally and…