Supply Chain
Business & Economics
Federal Officials Must Steel Themselves Against Tariff Proposal
Stocking the pantry has become significantly more expensive over the past two years. The attempts by domestic steel manufacturers, such as Ohio manufacturer Cleveland-Cliffs, to impose costly steel tariffs will only worsen this already difficult situation. Americans are already paying almost 15% more to purchase canned fruit and vegetables than last year. By ...
Business & Economics
Rounding Up The Usual Suspects Won’t Alleviate Inflation
Doing his best Captain Renault impersonation, President Biden is trying to alleviate the troubling inflationary environment by “rounding up the usual suspects”. In this case, that means blame a problem that can only be caused by errant government policies on politically convenient targets such as rising drug prices, Russia’s invasion of the ...
Climate Change
Regulating The Environment Through The Securities And Exchange Commission
Apparently, it is not enough for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to simply maintain fair, orderly, and efficient financial markets. The agency is now considering becoming a climate regulator with a new rule whose comment period ends tomorrow (June 17, 2022). That is not how the SEC frames the ...
Commentary
Empower Entrepreneurs To Improve Outcomes: The Case Of Integrated Care
Entrepreneurs, empowered by competitive markets, drive economic progress. When market regulations incentivize productive activities, entrepreneurs radically improve existing goods and services and create new products we never knew that we couldn’t live without. The wrong regulatory structures misalign these positive incentives. They thwart or misappropriate entrepreneurial efforts resulting in lost ...
Blog
Baby Formula Crisis Exemplifies the Danger of Protectionism
Parents across the United States are becoming increasingly frantic as the baby formula shortage worsens. To the chagrin of parents looking for answers, the shortage has devolved into a circuitous blame game. Last week, outgoing White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki pointed her finger at the manufacturers for not keeping ...
Agriculture
How California Agriculture Can Survive Another Year of Drought, State Water Cutbacks
Water management and drought preparedness should be cornerstones of every state in the West. Among the states suffering the most from lack of water is California. Water has shown itself to be a finite resource in many states, particularly those reliant upon surface snowpack sources from mountain ranges in the ...
California
Trying to cancel “Flip or Flop” won’t improve home affordability
One of the most popular home renovation shows has been “Flip Or Flop,” starring an Orange County couple that buys ratty houses, renovates them, then sells – usually but not always – at a profit. The pair, who eventually split, developed a loyal following of viewers. But in the eyes ...
Commentary
Drug Pricing Reforms Should Expand Choice, Not Government Control
As President Biden‘s recent State of the Union address made clear, drug pricing will remain a top policy issue for the foreseeable future. The president is correct that something must be done, but his proposals are wrongheaded and will only make things worse. Instead of focusing on government price controls, Congress ...
Blog
Biden’s Non-Plan for Fighting Inflation
In a recent survey, Americans ranked inflation as the most urgent issue facing the country. So, our ears perked up when Pres. Biden began laying out his plan to bring down inflation in his State of the Union address. After listening to his speech, you can’t help but think that ...
Agriculture
Feckless Feds Freeze Out Frost Fix
“That morning I squeezed every orange and it felt like a wet sponge – I knew I lost the whole crop,” said Natalia Derevianko, a small farmer in the tiny Florida town of Archer, somewhere in the void between Orlando and Tallahassee. Florida’s peninsular climate offers farmers an opportunity to grow ...
Federal Officials Must Steel Themselves Against Tariff Proposal
Stocking the pantry has become significantly more expensive over the past two years. The attempts by domestic steel manufacturers, such as Ohio manufacturer Cleveland-Cliffs, to impose costly steel tariffs will only worsen this already difficult situation. Americans are already paying almost 15% more to purchase canned fruit and vegetables than last year. By ...
Rounding Up The Usual Suspects Won’t Alleviate Inflation
Doing his best Captain Renault impersonation, President Biden is trying to alleviate the troubling inflationary environment by “rounding up the usual suspects”. In this case, that means blame a problem that can only be caused by errant government policies on politically convenient targets such as rising drug prices, Russia’s invasion of the ...
Regulating The Environment Through The Securities And Exchange Commission
Apparently, it is not enough for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to simply maintain fair, orderly, and efficient financial markets. The agency is now considering becoming a climate regulator with a new rule whose comment period ends tomorrow (June 17, 2022). That is not how the SEC frames the ...
Empower Entrepreneurs To Improve Outcomes: The Case Of Integrated Care
Entrepreneurs, empowered by competitive markets, drive economic progress. When market regulations incentivize productive activities, entrepreneurs radically improve existing goods and services and create new products we never knew that we couldn’t live without. The wrong regulatory structures misalign these positive incentives. They thwart or misappropriate entrepreneurial efforts resulting in lost ...
Baby Formula Crisis Exemplifies the Danger of Protectionism
Parents across the United States are becoming increasingly frantic as the baby formula shortage worsens. To the chagrin of parents looking for answers, the shortage has devolved into a circuitous blame game. Last week, outgoing White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki pointed her finger at the manufacturers for not keeping ...
How California Agriculture Can Survive Another Year of Drought, State Water Cutbacks
Water management and drought preparedness should be cornerstones of every state in the West. Among the states suffering the most from lack of water is California. Water has shown itself to be a finite resource in many states, particularly those reliant upon surface snowpack sources from mountain ranges in the ...
Trying to cancel “Flip or Flop” won’t improve home affordability
One of the most popular home renovation shows has been “Flip Or Flop,” starring an Orange County couple that buys ratty houses, renovates them, then sells – usually but not always – at a profit. The pair, who eventually split, developed a loyal following of viewers. But in the eyes ...
Drug Pricing Reforms Should Expand Choice, Not Government Control
As President Biden‘s recent State of the Union address made clear, drug pricing will remain a top policy issue for the foreseeable future. The president is correct that something must be done, but his proposals are wrongheaded and will only make things worse. Instead of focusing on government price controls, Congress ...
Biden’s Non-Plan for Fighting Inflation
In a recent survey, Americans ranked inflation as the most urgent issue facing the country. So, our ears perked up when Pres. Biden began laying out his plan to bring down inflation in his State of the Union address. After listening to his speech, you can’t help but think that ...
Feckless Feds Freeze Out Frost Fix
“That morning I squeezed every orange and it felt like a wet sponge – I knew I lost the whole crop,” said Natalia Derevianko, a small farmer in the tiny Florida town of Archer, somewhere in the void between Orlando and Tallahassee. Florida’s peninsular climate offers farmers an opportunity to grow ...
