A young Asian woman suffering from domestic violence stands alone in the bay window of her home. … [+] (Photo credit: In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images November 25 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a U.N. day designated to focus on the issue of violence […]
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Biden Touts Cheaper Gas As Progressive Policies Stoke Energy Inflation
Politicians tout falling gas prices while championing policies that inflate energy costs. getty The White House is touting declining gas prices heading into the Thanksgiving holiday. Yet the downward trend in fuel costs will strike many as an awkward data point for the Biden administration to promote. That’s because this administration and the most high […]
Read MoreWill Sanctions Replace FCPA As DOJ’s Favored Multinational Focus?
After years of vigorously enforcing the FCPA, a “sea change” in DOJ’s corporate enforcement priorities has appeared to roll in. DOJ leadership now professes that it intends for sanctions to become “the new FCPA.” DOJ has been doing more than just talking the talk to give sanctions the same attention once paid to FCPA violations. […]
Read MoreLiberty Ladd: Going above and beyond
Liberty Ladd has been drawn to public service and fighting injustice from a young age. At 15, as a student representative from the first congressional district of Maine, she testified to the state board of education about unfair grading policies at her school. Later, she decided to join the Air Force, with the understanding that […]
Read MoreStates Limit Chinese Investment, Take Care To Avoid Unintended Effects
The Florida State Capitol Building in Tallahassee, Florida. getty Following the recent release of a government memo noting that law enforcement has identified 270 illegal cannabis growing operations in Maine alone, the state’s congressional delegation sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking for information on the Department of Justice’s efforts to thwart foreign-owned […]
Read MoreU.S. Pushes For Stringent Labor Standards In Trade Pact: Can It Work?
US Trade Representative Katherine Tai (C) speaks during a ministerial pillar meeting at the … [+] Indo-Pacific Economic Ministerial in Los Angeles, California, on September 8, 2022. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) AFP via Getty Images The U.S. and other trade negotiators working on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) are in […]
Read MorePakistan Deports Afghan Refugees
Afghan refugees gather at a makeshift camp upon their arrival from Pakistan, near the … [+] Afghanistan-Pakistan Torkham border in Nangarhar province on November 2, 2023.Thousands Afghans have fled Pakistan in the month since its government ordered 1.7 million people to leave or face arrest and deportation, officials said on November 2. (Photo by Wakil […]
Read MoreYou Don’t Have to Love Trump to Laugh at Letitia James’s ‘Fraud’ Case
As is well known now, former President Trump is presently on trial in New York. The accusations are that he fraudulently inflated the value of his assets in order to secure better lending terms from banks and insurance companies. What a laugh. And the latter isn’t a partisan observation. If readers doubt it, feel free […]
Read MoreWith Its Attacks On Amazon, the FTC Is Arguing With Itself
Imagine trying to demonize Christmas. The Grinch did and failed. It’s hard to put an ugly face on what is glorious. Despite this truth, the FTC continues to try and demonize the much-beloved Amazon. The strategy its bureaucrats have settled on seems to be rooted in finding fault with Amazon’s treatment of its third-party sellers. […]
Read MoreThere’s No Growth-Inflation Link, and There Never Has Been
Vinod Khosla sees AI advances automating 80% of 80% of work. Elon Musk sees robots observing work being done by humans, then performing it themselves. Imagine the staggering growth that awaits if AI in its various forms lives up to even a small fraction of its potential. It was difficult not to think of Khosla […]
Read MoreHow to decarbonize the world, at scale
The world in recent years has largely been moving on from debates about the need to curb carbon emissions and focusing more on action — the development, implementation, and deployment of the technological, economic, and policy measures to spur the scale of reductions needed by mid-century. That was the message Robert Stoner, the interim director […]
Read MoreHundreds Of Colleges Now Offer Automatic Admission To Students
Programs offering “direct admissions”—without a formal application–are spreading. The trend could accelerate in the the wake of the Supreme Court decision killing affirmative action. By Emma Whitford, Forbes Staff More than half of students report that applying to college is the most stressful academic experience they’ve had, but 18-year-old Elsy-Marbeli Cruz-Parra skipped the angst and […]
Read MoreRedwood Materials Gears Up To Recycle First Big Wave Of Used EV Batteries
Even battery packs that have been involved in crashes or a fire have valuable materials that can be recycled and reused, according to Redwood Materials. Associated Press In 2024, a quarter million aging electric vehicles will be ready for dismantling and recycling. That could be more than a 30% jump from 2023 — and Redwood […]
Read MoreBiden White House Releases 2020-2022 Regulatory Cost-Benefit Reports
Some aspire to understand whether federal regulations on the whole do more harm than good—that benefits exceed costs. But how would they know for sure? Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations, Fiscal Years 2020, 2021 … [+] and 2022 White House Office of Management and Budget One would hope […]
Read MoreWording Of Colorado Ballot Measure Is Misleading, State Board Confirms
Proposition HH, the Colorado ballot measure that would weaken the nation’s strongest taxpayer … [+] safeguard, is deceptively worded according to state board. getty While most of the off-year election coverage has focused on the Virginia Senate elections and the gubernatorial contests in Louisiana, Kentucky, and Mississippi, early voting has already begun in Colorado on […]
Read MoreAs Google Searches For the Future, William Barr Looks For Fotomat
In 1980, there were over 4,000 Fotomats around the United States. Time was when you had pictures to develop, you took your film to the store. Fotomat was frequently the choice. Some might have said monopoly. The good news is that in commerce, the present is always and everywhere a look into the past. This […]
Read MoreWhat Happens When Monetarist Central-Planning Marries Santa Keynes
Why is money so abundant in the United States? There’s no riddle here, nor does the question rate some kind of conspiratorial answer about central banks joining forces with rich families to keep the “little guy” down. There’s a popular book that contends exactly the latter. Back to reality, money is abundant stateside simply because […]
Read MoreF. A. Hayek, Conservatism, And The Free Economy
I have spent my entire professional life promoting economic freedom. Most of this has been in the United States, where parties and groups labeled “conservatives” have favored the free economy. Various leaders and groups made some exceptions, usually for national security, education, health, and the environment, but by and large they always defended private property. […]
Read MoreH1-B Work Visa Modernization Update Proposed By The DHS
The Department of Homeland Security is trying to improve its H1-B visa rules getty The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would modernize and improve the requirements for H-1B specialty occupation workers. Through the proposed rule, DHS seeks to streamline the requirements of the H-1B program, […]
Read MoreNet Neutrality Resurfaces To Join The Bidenomics Regulatory Costberg
“It was always about government control.” —Commissioner Brendan Carr, Federal Communications Commission Open Meeting, October 2023 Just in time for Halloween, “net neutrality” regulation buried by the Trump-era Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under the auspices of then-commissioner Ajit Pai has been unearthed from the grave. Chanting subterranean and abhorrent rites, last week’s FCC Open Commission […]
Read MoreQ&A: Magnifying research impact with policymakers
The MIT Policy Lab at the Center for International Studies works with researchers across the Institute to develop and enhance connections between the worlds of academia and public policy. Led by Associate Professor Chappell Lawson, who serves as faculty director, and Drew Story, who serves as managing director, the MIT Policy Lab has supported over […]
Read MoreWith Export Controls, Gina Raimondo Vandalizes Logic, & U.S. Companies
An economic known that is sadly lost on politicians has to do with the basic truth that if producers can’t sell to us, we can’t sell to them. Trade is all about products for products, so if we mindlessly put up barriers to foreign goods, we by extension erect barriers to the sale of U.S. […]
Read MoreWhat Is Happening To Ukrainian Prisoners Of War In Russia?
On October 18, 2023, relatives of Ukrainian Azov regiment war prisoners held a rally at St. Sophia Square in Kyiv calling for their quick exchange with Russian prisoners of war. Prisoner swaps between Ukraine and Russia are rare. While more than 2,500 Ukrainians have been released, up to 10,000 are believed to remain in Russian […]
Read MoreLawmakers react to Biden’s Oval Office address
Lawmakers react to Biden’s Oval Office address | The Hill Skip to content Lawmakers reacted after President Biden delivered an Oval Office address Thursday night, during which he spoke on the Israel-Hamas conflict and the war in Ukraine. Democrats seemed to react well to their leader’s Thursday night speech, with many praising the president’s words […]
Read More3 Questions: What should scientists and the public know about nuclear waste?
Many researchers see an expansion of nuclear power, which produces no greenhouse gas emissions from its power generation, as an essential component of strategies to combat global climate change. Yet there is still strong resistance to such expansion, and much of that is based on the issue of how to safely dispose of the resulting […]
Read MoreFor First Time, Oil Likely To Be Top U.S. Export In 2023
The primary oil category is the No. 1 U.S. export through August. If it ends the year at No. 1, it … [+] will be the first year the category has ranked first in decades and perhaps ever. The chart shows the percentage for each exports. ustradenumbers.com For the first time in 50 years and […]
Read MoreAgainst Backdrop Of Gaza, Ukraine, 10 Predictions For 2023 Trade Results
Oil is likely to replace refined petroleum products like gasoline as the United States’ most … [+] valuable export, when the final tallies for 2023 are made. The chart shows the percentage of the value of all U.S. exports through August, the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data. ustradenumbers.com Here are 10 predictions for U.S. […]
Read MoreNathaniel Hendren wants to understand the conditions of opportunity
The U.S. is a land of opportunity, but it’s a complicated thing. People in the workforce today are much less likely to earn more than their parents did, compared to people born around 1940. Some parts of the country generate much more economic mobility than others. And even with other matters being equal, there are […]
Read MoreTax Lessons From Little Rock
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP, File) AL DRAGO Governors and legislators have enacted income tax cuts in 25 states since 2020. Among that group of tax cutting states, Arkansas recently became the first to enact two income tax rate cuts in the same year when Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) […]
Read MoreClosing The Talent Gap: From K-12 To Career
In the post-pandemic era, our nation is facing a persistent and increasingly urgent challenge: many students graduating from our education systems are not adequately prepared to meet current and future workforce needs. A concern I’ve previously shared is that in my home state of Tennessee, for every 100 job openings, we have just 56 workers […]
Read MoreJoin VentureBeat and Anzu Partners for our first DC meetup: ‘AI ❤️ DC’
VentureBeat is partnering with Anzu Partners on an exclusive gathering for the AI community in Washington DC this coming Thursday, October 26: AI ❤️ DC! Join us for an evening of incisive discussions and high-level networking, spotlighting the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and its implications for national security in the city that’s at the […]
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