Topic:
Regulation
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All Aboard! Next stop: Prosperity Through Freight Rail
Opinion -While Americans grapple with stubborn inflation brought on by overspending and the bottlenecking of energy production, consumers and voters need to be aware that freight rail isn’t the boogeyman. -
Poor People Home Mortgages Down 46% – Rich People Art Collection Mortgages Up 30%
Opinion -Dodd-Frank made Wall Street and big banks more powerful, not consumers. -
$101 Million?!? The Ridiculous FTC Interference Minimum
Opinion -The Joe Biden Administration’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is completely out of control. -
Hubris: DC Even ‘Fixes’ Its Errors Wrong
Opinion -Little did we know that our plan to stimulate job growth and innovation would be subject to abuse by giant tech companies. -
‘Bring Out Your Dead’ ‘Bank Crisis’: Fake News for Big Banks
Opinion -Every business actually loathes competition. Monopoly is easy. A flourishing marketplace is hard. -
Government Price Fixing Is Just as Stupid in Europe
Opinion -Rather than let the market players determine the value of SEPs, Government in its infinite ineptitude is going to fix the rates -
Surging New England Energy Prices: No Surprise
Opinion -New Englanders now pay more than twice the price for natural gas than most other US residents pay, and that gap is growing. -
Florida: Where ESG goes to die
Opinion -DeSantis signed a landmark bill designed “to protect Floridians from the corporatist environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) movement -- a worldwide effort to inject woke political ideology across the financial sector." -
‘Too Big to Fail’ – to ‘We Only Need 3 or 4 Banks’ – in 13 Years
Opinion -We’re supposed to simply forget the cataclysmic, corrupt outcome of DC’s last bank “too big to fail” “reform.” -
EV Weirdness Looms Large
Opinion -Editorial -People are not excited about buying electric vehicles, so word has it that the Biden administration is gearing up to force us to do it. The trick is to use the so-called Fuel Economy Standards to do it. -
Follow The Science, At Least On Nutrition
Opinion -Editorial -Even if we hew to politicized science on Covid and climate, can’t we do real science on food? -
Progressive Myths About Mass Shootings and Weapons of War
Opinion -Editorial -In the wake of the Boulder supermarket massacre and other mass shootings, progressive activists, politicians, and journalists have misled the public about major aspects of these tragedies. -
Dem Senator Wants to Weaponize the IRS, Again
Opinion -Editorial -Wyden, one of the most liberal U.S. senators and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, wrote a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig -
California’s Dysfunctional Electricity Policies may lead to more Blackouts
Opinion -Editorial -California is proud of being the only state in America that imports more electricity than any other state. -
Food Security in a Post-Covid World
Opinion -Editorial -US-EU trade talks are already stalled over agriculture issues. And yet the European Union’s new “Farm to Fork” strategy doubles down on the EU’s contentious agricultural regulations. -
Trump Administration Delays Summer Season Fuel Switch
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is delaying the normally required shift to summertime gasoline blends after the coronavirus pandemic caused a plummet in demand, leaving, pipelines, refineries, and storage tanks full of winter-grade fuel. -
Proposed Violence Against Women Act Revisions Could Cost States Billions in Unemployment Benefits
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Legislators in many states are considering bills that would reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) on the state level, jeopardizing the solvency of state Unemployment Insurance trust funds -
Ten Years Out, Electronic Health Records Raise Ire
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were once touted as an easily transferrable, cost-effective way to record patient care, but more than a decade after their introduction, they are a subject of heated debate. -
Physicians Still Waiting for Flexibility in Prescribing to Suicidal Patients
Opinion -health-care-news, News -After publicly calling attention to the problem eight years, physicians say there has been little to no change in the way insurance companies cover prescription medications for suicidal patients considered in danger of a drug overdose. -
COVID-19 Response Sets New Normal for Big Government
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -During my last visit to the grocery store, the clerk directed me to the hermetically sealed conveyor belt and, grinning proudly, said, “Welcome to the new normal.” -
New Strategy on Patient Health Data Targets Consumers
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Before the Coronavirus pandemic took center stage, the Trump Administration began executing new rules for better production, use, and sharing of medical records. -
COVID-19: The Government Practice of Medicine
Opinion -Editorial -I hope you are doing well--for access to medical help is increasingly threatened. -
FDA Gives Biosimilars a Boost by Expanding Database
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The so-call "Purple Book" is a list of all licensed biologic products and is a reference guide for patients, providers, payers and manufactureres. -
Litigation in the Public Interest?
Opinion -Editorial -Fear of litigation delayed delivery of millions of N95 masks for healthcare workers. Should the law be slowing our emergency response?