As the latest issue of Thinking Minnesota reaches doorsteps, the news is dominated by the COVID-19 epidemic that began in China and now has spread worldwide. A number of states…
Standing on the banks of the Mississippi River in Cohasset, Minnesota, the Boswell Energy Center is the most productive, lowest-cost source of electricity in the entire state. Because Minnesota’s mining…
Xcel Energy bombards the airwaves to inform us that they plan to generate 100 percent of their electricity with carbon free resources by 2050. To accomplish this goal, Xcel plans…
It appears a study that claimed to show an increase in Coronavirus deaths linked to small particulates is being walked back by Harvard University. The study originally claimed that higher…
The following article originally appeared on the Babylon Bee: BEIJING—In a candid speech Tuesday, President Xi Jinping stated he was “pretty impressed” by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s handling of the…
One of the core arguments for limited government involvement in the private sector is that private companies are much more receptive to changes in market conditions than governments because they…
Happy Earth Day, everyone! Last year I did a seven-part mini-series on how capitalism is saving the planet, which detailed how capitalist countries routinely have a cleaner environment than countries…
On April 16, 2020 the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) wrote an article entitled “Minnesotans Want Clean Cars: The Oil Industry, Not So Much.” The article, which mentions Center of…
The article below appeared in Forbes, and it does a good job of summarizing how many of the policies advocated by environmental activists harm human safety in times like the Coronavirus outbreak.…
Bashing a major multi-national like 3M might make for good Twitter, but it is very dangerous public policy. In the fight against the Coronavirus, it is more important that usual to…
Environmentalists’ call to shutter the Boswell Energy Center would devastate the Iron Range economy, with no measurable impact on future global temperatures.
The government is putting large swathes of the economy into 'sleep mode' to fight the Coronavirus. Here is what we need to do to make sure there is an economy…
American Experiment’s work continues, albeit from home.
How pop culture accelerated the fall of Communism.
The news is all COVID-19, all the time. But how serious is the epidemic so far, here in Minnesota? A friend emailed this analysis, which suggests that the virus has…
The Coronavirus is disrupting the global supply chain for solar and wind energy because many of the components used in solar panels and wind turbines are made in China, according…
Coronavirus is a human tragedy. It illustrates, once again, the need for a strong economy to provide the resources to cope.
Last week, the Star Tribune ran a story about how the Coronavirus has disrupted the global solar panel supply chain, potentially causing the delay of two large solar installations in…
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.
We’re delighted to report that Senator Jason Rarick (R) cited American Experiment’s research on copper nickel mining in Minnesota in his piece to the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Journal…
To boost GDP per capita as well as total GDP, immigrants need to be more likely to be employed than workers already resident and/or more skilled.
The following article originally appeared in Reason. Baltimore County residents’ have had their perceptions about where their glass ends up shattered. Over the weekend, news broke that the county—which does not include…
Heartland’s Donald Kendal, Justin Haskins, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode 225 of the In The Tank Podcast. One Child Nation, a documentary now available on…