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$42 Billion Broadband Boondoggle Brought Internet to Zero Homes
The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program (BEAD) allocated $42 billion to extend broadband access to all homes nationwide. Nearly three years after passage, 16 states still lacked funding approval. In its first…
Do ESG and DEI Follow a Product Life Cycle?
ESG pushback within the United States is affecting business matters in a substantial way. In January, a Texas federal judge ruled that American Airlines was in violation of federal law after the airline invested 401(k) plans…
Gold Surpasses $2900 Per Ounce
Gold has surged to a new all-time high, breaking through $2,911.72 per ounce on a thick mix of domestic and foreign uncertainty, inflation concerns, and a shifting macroeconomic landscape. While bullion has historically…
Morano on Sky News: Trump has driven a stake through heart of the Green New Deal
CFACT, founded in 1985 by Craig Rucker and the late (truly great) David Rothbard, examines the relationship between human freedom, and issues of energy, environment, climate, economics, civil rights and more. View all posts
Say You Want a Revolution?
By Bill Wilson On June 4, 1989, an election was held in Poland, at the time a solid member of the Soviet bloc, a dedicated communist government that had the full support of their masters in the Soviet Kremlin. The results…
Treasury Secretary Blocked From Treasury Payment Systems. What’s Next? The Commander-In-Chief Can’t Direct The Military?
By Robert Romano U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Paul Engelmayer on Feb. 8 issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessant or any other…
Erasing the IRA’s “greenhouse gas pollution” words
The infamous Inflation Reduction Act is best known for throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at green causes. Along the way it also says repeatedly and falsely that carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases (except…
Scrapped Ventilators and Sovereign Wealth: Why Central Planners Shouldn’t Invest
President Trump’s executive order directing the formation of an American sovereign wealth fund (SWF) was greeted, like so much else, with approval from his closest supporters and muted grumbling from his detractors…even…
What Milei Got Wrong About Market Failure—and Why It Matters
On January 23, Javier Milei delivered his latest speech on challenges to Western Civilization at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It was long, detailed, bold, and compelling. One part of the speech, however, lacked the…
Fires, wars undermine “net zero” and worse
Barack Obama tried but failed to enact the Green New Deal. Joe Biden, aided by California’s Nancy Pelosi, succeeded in spades – on paper, at least. Whether or not one believes that an all-electric society, aided by wind and…
