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Co-opting Capitalism: From Value Creation to Virtue Signaling
When a business is conducted efficiently, effectively, and ethically, a business serves its own interests and also the society around it. Despite this comfortable collaboration, people outside those businesses continually…
Hochul’s senseless $75B climate cash grab will only speed New York’s decline
Gov. Hochul last week signed a new climate bill forcing fossil-fuel companies to pay $75 billion in “recovery” assessments over the next 25 years for their alleged role in causing “extreme weather.” “It’s time for large…
Why Are There No Trillion-Dollar Companies in Europe?
Europe is a wonderfully diverse continent, with 44 countries, each with its own rich (and long) history and unique constellation of policies. Despite this, though, there are no trillion-dollar companies in all of Europe. In…
Has Generation Z Gotten a Raw Economic Deal?
Popular newsletter writer Aaron Renn recently highlighted a guest post by Tom Owens arguing that young people today face much more difficult economic circumstances than previous generations did. Anyone who has looked into…
Climate cartel frays as Goldman Sachs exits global Green Banking Alliance
One month after the election of Donald Trump, and amid a deepening economic crisis in Europe, investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has broken ranks with a U.N.-sponsored coalition of high-end banks, dedicated to directing…
Want Progress? Lose the Spoon Jobs
Politicians want to create jobs, “good-paying union jobs,” in existing industries. But that’s not what markets do. The “destructive” part of creative destruction eliminates jobs in existing industries. In a dynamic economy,…
‘Asian Drama’: Gunnar Myrdal’s Flawed Masterpiece
The Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half of the 1974 Nobel Prize to economist Gunnar Myrdal. The prize honored his 1968 work Asian Drama, a 2,200-page magnum opus, the result of 10 years investigating the economies of…
Trump and Musk Are Right: Legal Immigrants a Boon to US Economy
The media have been playing up the "civil war" inside the GOP between what Politico calls the "MAGA Republicans and Big Tech." The restrictionists in the party want fewer visas, and the pro-growth wing…
Trump and Elon Are Right: Legal Immigrants a Boon to U.S. Economy
The media have been playing up the "civil war" inside the GOP between what Politico calls the "MAGA Republicans and Big Tech." The restrictionists in the party want fewer visas, and the pro-growth wing…
My 41 wind-threatens-whales articles track federal deception
A New Years’s retrospective. Many of these 41 CFACT articles were sent to key NOAA whale protection people when published over a period of 2.5 years. All have been carefully ignored, an ongoing deception. Trump has promised…
