At the same time, Biden administration must ensure that unemployment-payment increases are only temporary and can nix altogether the $15 federal minimum wage.
Minnesota is lagging in its neighbors in administering the Covid-19 vaccine and Gov. Walz will only have the Trump administration to blame for another 48 hours.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
In 2015, Target's location zipcodes averaged a median income of $78,964 and Walmart Supercenters $63,488. The differing performances of the two chains illustrates the differing economic experiences of better-off and less-well-off…
Last weekend, two million Californians suffered through rolling blackouts during record-breaking heat because cloud cover reduced the amount of electricity generated from solar power, and low wind speeds resulted in…
At the end of May, my friend Todd Myers, of the Washington Policy Center, wrote an excellent piece for The Wall Street Journal detailing how Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s response to…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
Center of the American Experiment has been at the forefront of exposing the short lifespan and enormous cost associated with decommissioning wind turbines at the end of their 20 year…
California is once again serving as a valuable example to the rest of the United States, but it is an example of what not to do. Despite California’s plans to…
In March of 2019, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) released a public “fact sheet” alleging the cost of electricity generated by wind and solar in Minnesota had reached new record lows,…
We are often told that installing solar panels on our homes can be a great way to ensure that the lights stay on in the event of a blackout, but…
Wind lobbyists are claiming that steel tariffs enacted by the Trump administration are causing such a large increase to the cost of wind that the industry needs more taxpayer money,…
Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan and other lawmakers recently traveled to Germany to supposedly learn about Germany’s “Energy Transition,” and bring home useful lessons that can be gleaned for Minnesota’s energy…
You know its bad when Bloomberg, which almost always treats renewables with kid gloves, comes out with a piece that is one of the most devastating critiques of the unreliable nature of…
The Minnesota House of Representatives has proposed spending $550,000 on a study to be conducted by the University of Minnesota exploring the impacts of climate change in Minnesota. What’s unique…
Gov. Walz’s 100 percent carbon free energy proposal is a government-mandated wealth transfer from Minnesota families to the monopoly utilities that helped write the legislation. This is crony capitalism at…
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
The article below was originally printed in The Blaze and details the spectacular failure of the “test of humanity” conducted by the founder of Panera. It turns out people won’t…
It is heartbreaking to see the people of Venezuela, formerly the poster child for 'democratic socialists' like Sen. Bernie Sanders, reduced to being lab rats in another experimental proof of…
Hundreds of thousands of Californians are feeling the negative effects of their renewable energy mandates, which was recently increased to a 100 percent mandate for zero emission electricity by 2045, as…
As student debt becomes a more onerous problem in the American economy, we have to look at why fees have risen so much. This leads us back to the disproportionate…
You’d never know it from the media’s selective coverage of the environment. But our nation’s air quality has vastly improved over the past several decades, even as the economy tripled…
There's good news and bad news. Gas prices this summer are forecast to be higher than they have been for the last four years, according to the U.S. Energy Information…