Economics

Saudi Arabia Will Eventually Have To Increase Oil Production

OPEC+ decided on December 5 to kick the can down the road yet again, postponing the timeframe for putting additional barrels back into the market until April 2025 and slowing...

Will the Click-To-Cancel Rule Survive the Trump Administration?

Americans love the idea of the free market, but is the market really free when consumers are trapped in paid subscriptions they no longer need? In an attempt to protect...

How To Stop China From Manipulating North American Markets

Chinese companies are on the move. Facing increasing tariffs on Chinese goods under the Biden administration, such as those on steel and aluminum, Chinese manufacturers responded by increasingly moving production...

OPEC+ Has Painted Itself into a Corner

OPEC+ energy ministers are engaged in another round of recriminations and handwringing, having delayed their scheduled meeting from December 1 to December 5 to give them more time to argue....

MAGA Needs Clean Energy

Climate change is an issue of global concern but not a MAGA priority. Clean energy, on the other hand, should be. Conflating the two is a big mistake. Increasing American...

Out-Competing China Starts With The Tax Code

Tariffs are almost always the main issue connecting the tax reform debate with strategic competition with China. However, some provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) should...

Biden’s Botched Electric Vehicle Legacy

As we head into the final weeks of the Biden administration, the ambitious goal it had set coming into office to build out a competitive American clean energy and electric...

Elon Musk at conference.

Explaining SpaceX’s Success

Yesterday marked the sixth test launch of SpaceX’s “Starship” shuttle, following a fifth successful test in October. If you want to know how this was possible, you should read this...

Understanding Climate Migration

Representatives from countries around the world are convened in Baku, Azerbaijan, through Friday (November 22) for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the COP29, for ongoing talks...

Will Donald Trump Restart America’s Inflation Crisis?

There is good news and bad news on the inflation front. The good news is that inflation has come down from its May 2022 high of 9 percent to close...

Donald Trump: A Threat to the U.S. Economy?

H. L. Mencken, the late American journalist, famously wrote that “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”...

Donald Trump Cannot Deliver the Change U.S. Trade Policy Needs

The era of unrestrained free trade is over, and it’s not coming back. It’s not what the modern, interconnected world demands. Instead, a new era of trade policy is needed—one...