In late June the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would pare back several key policies put in place during the Trump Administration related…
In March, I wrote that the so-called “COVID Relief Bill” could block Minnesota’s next governor and legislature from cutting taxes. In May, I followed up, writing that a federal court had…
While the Affordable Care Act provided coverage through Medicaid expansion and generous premium subsidies, it also put the individual market in chaos and on the verge of collapse. Back in…
The following article was written by Michael Shellenberger and originally appeared on Substack: Until recently, many renewable energy advocates claimed that China had made solar panels so much cheaper than…
Back in March, I wrote that the so-called ‘COVID Relief Bill’ could block Minnesota’s next governor and legislature from cutting taxes: Senate amendments to the American Rescue Plan Act prohibit the use of any…
Gov. Tim Walz is still holding on to his tax increases even with a huge surplus.
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was on CNN the other morning and I mentioned to my wife Diane that I liked him for several reasons, one being he’s among the…
Sen. Sanders took a laptop costing a few hundred dollars and produced Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, for which he was paid $795,000.
Business columnist Lee Schafer wrote in Saturday’s Star Tribune that Minnesota “needs to take a look at its income tax.” Schafer began with the fact that Minnesota’s personal income tax…
"I'm a billionaire. Please raise my taxes" So wrote Tom Steyer, president of the left wing advocacy organization NextGen America in an op-ed for the LA Times last year. But the U.S. Treasury…
The Energy Information Administration has updated its analysis of federal energy subsidies to include the fiscal year 2016 numbers. The key takeaway is that energy subsidies have fallen substantially since…
I’ve always found Brian Wesbury of First Trust to be insightful and a particularly good communicator of sometimes difficult to understand economic issues. Here’s his new Thoughts on Trade. You…
Economists are often having the same debates today as they were at some time in the past. Here, in Newsweek from this day in 1963, the great economic writer Henry…
Imposing tariffs to solve a trade deficit is a harmful non-solution to what is a non-problem in the first place.
Fiscal policymakers have accepted for centuries that taxes act as a negative incentive on whatever is being taxed. That doesn’t always keep them from taxing.
Earlier this year I wrote a piece (Government, Not Wall Street, Caused Financial Crisis) that showed that the Trump administration was right to call the Dodd-Frank legislation passed in the…
Acclaimed author Diana Furchtgott-Roth explains how liberal policies betray America’s young.
The Trump administration is right to call the Dodd-Frank legislation passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis a “massive government overreach.” As critical repair efforts begin in Washington,…
In one of his last official acts, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act. As summarized by the Washington Post, the bill “boosts funding for medical research, eases the…
Speaker: Dodd-Frank prevents small business from creating jobs
I have several good buddies who make sure I see I keep up with my pension math. So earlier this week, I got a number of friendly pings pointing to…
As much as I continue to pore over news stories, blogs, and academic papers, at least five fundamental questions regarding the so-called bailout remain unanswered. ● First, why was everyone…