No, we don’t need a new industrial policy for semiconductors
There’s a shortage of semiconductors in the world that’s affecting large sectors of the economy – from cars to phones and many things in-between. The normal economic response to shortages…
Time to bury a 135 year-old cronyist law at sea
The federal government maintains a thicket of laws from decades ago that have long outlived their usefulness and now serve only to rob the many to enrich the few. Among…
The Commerce Department’s ‘rogue, unaccountable, police force’
Another day, another federal agency exposed spying on the American people for reasons that make not a bit of sense. This time the culprit is the otherwise staid, boring, and…
Getting the incentives right can protect the Prairie Chicken and energy production
The Biden administration is considering extending federal protection to the Lesser Prairie Chicken, a bird that once roamed the Great Plains in unfettered abundance but whose population has dwindled in…
Texas dropped its mask mandate and disaster failed to follow
Because the debate over when, where and who to mask is still a thing in the country…the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson looked at what happened in Texas after Gov. Greg Abbott…
Warren seeks a permanently beefed-up IRS
As part of the Democrats’ push to extract more tax revenue from the “rich,” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is backing an idea to give the IRS a permanent budget boost:…
Mask rules for toddlers are theater, not science
Even as new coronavirus cases continue to decline and vaccinations continue to rise, the great masking debate continues, in some cases, taking absurd new twists. As Reason’s Robby Soave writes,…
Whitmer’s anti-pipeline crusade will inflict pain across the Midwest and Canada
The ransomware attack that temporarily shut down the Colonial Pipeline showed the nation’s (real) infrastructure is ripe target for criminal gangs and nation states bent on disrupting our economy. But…
California’s Democratic Pols Want to Gut the Recall Law
Steven Greenhut writes that California “has morphed from a land of limitless opportunity to a highly regulated land of limits and control.” The change has prompted an exodus of people…
State Budgets Overflow With (Borrowed) Federal Relief Funds
A key component of the Biden Administration’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan was giving $350 billion or so to state and local governments to plug the coronavirus-related holes in their…