Is Trump a new cold warrior?
View related content: Economics, International Economics, Pethokoukis
Does the Trump White House think it’s waging a tactical trade war or a strategic cold war? In fact, Trump and the White House may see things differently.
The California auto mileage deal and the leftist crusade against personal transportation
View related content: Economics, Environmental and Energy Economics
The deal between California and the auto producers is a manifestation of both the age-old quest for ever-more power on the part of politicians and bureaucrats and the ill-advised unwillingness of businessmen to resist the de facto expropriation of their shareholders’ property.
LeBron, Taco Tuesdays, and trademarks
View related content: Intellectual Property, Technology and Innovation
A closer look at US Patent and Trademark Office standards reveals that LeBron James’ attempt to trademark the term “Taco Tuesday” isn’t quite as crazy as it sounds.
To lower residential energy costs, waive goodbye to the Jones Act
View related content: Economics, Environmental and Energy Economics
Waiving the Jones Act would have a substantial beneficial impact on the sales of natural gas by US producers to US consumers in New England. It’s a good bipartisan idea whose time has more than come.
The faith factor in prison education
View related content: Citizenship, Criminal Justice, Society and Culture
Faith-based postsecondary institutions were stakeholders in the Pell Grant-funded prison program before 1994. These institutions and people of faith continue to be driven by their values to serve those in prison and advance human dignity.
1619 and all that
View related content: Foreign and Defense Policy
In our current confusion, a deeper dive into the origins of the American experience is well warranted, but there’s much more to those origins than is dreamt of in the New York Times’ philosophy.
Don’t blame Facebook for America’s lack of Mars colonies
View related content: Economics, Innovation, Pethokoukis
It’s odd to use Apollo to attack Silicon Valley when tech billionaires are leading America back to space. It’s also strange to put the entire burden of America’s technological future on the private sector after Washington’s decades-long retreat from R&D.
Faster! No wait, slower! An update on broadband speeds
View related content: Technology and Innovation, Telecommunications
Over the last decade, one of the chief arguments of those pushing greater regulation of US broadband networks was that America severely lagged behind the rest of the world on data speeds. But the Wall Street Journal reports that America’s internet speeds are in fact “blazing” fast, and the report contains many useful specifics.
5 questions for Ryan Bourne on Joseph Schumpeter, the tech giants, and the case against monopoly fatalism
View related content: Economics, Pethokoukis, Technology and Innovation
Cato’s Ryan Bourne discusses his recent paper, “Is This Time Different? Schumpeter, the Tech Giants, and Monopoly Fatalism.”
An Argentine canary in the coal mine?
View related content: Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Economics
The Argentine government has announced that it intends to seek a US$100 billion government debt restructuring. This might be an early warning sign of what might happen in other corners of the global credit market where very risky loans have also been made.
