by Russell Gold and Daniel Gilbert. The U.S. is overtaking Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas, a startling shift that is reshaping markets and eroding the clout of traditional energy-rich nations. U.S. energy output has been surging in recent years, a comeback fueled by shale-rock formations of oil and natural gas ... MORE
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Showing posts with label industry. Show all posts
Star Parker: We Need To Restore The Spirit Of Capitalism
Our president is hardwired to the socialist view. President Barack Obama went to Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., this week to rearticulate his vision for the American economy and to reassure the American people that, yes, he knows what he is doing. The president's prodigious political skills are always on display, even in the most ... MORE
How Free Markets And Ingenuity Can Save The Planet
by Ronald Bailey. “We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost
over the next 50 years or so,”
warned the famed British television naturalist David
Attenborough in the January Radio Times. He added: “It’s
not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for
this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or
the ... MORE
Rich Trzupek: Obsessive-Compulsive Environmentalism
Focused on the next big scare. America’s massive and well-funded environmental industry is always in need of new worlds to conquer, or at least to attack with broom and dustpan. But the irony behind the modern-day environmental movement in America is that the more successful the movement is, the more petty subsequent goals necessarily ... MORE
Mitch McConnell & Rand Paul Join Forces To Legalize Hemp
Push to legalize industrial hemp is gaining steam. Supporters of industrial hemp gained a powerful ally in Washington several weeks ago when Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) joined fellow Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul and Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) as a co-sponsor of S.359, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act ... MORE
David Deming: What If Atlas Shrugged?
Dark ages revisited. Atlas Shrugged is the title of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel in which the world grinds to a halt after the productive segment of society goes on strike. Tired of being demonized and exploited, the world's innovators and entrepreneurs simply walk away. What would happen to the US today if the fossil fuel industry went on a strike ... MORE
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Mark J. Perry: The Truth About Those 'Big Oil Subsidies'
A lesson in political double-talk. Do a Google search for the term “subsidies for oil companies” and you’ll get more than 600,000 results. Try a search for “subsidies for Big Oil” and you’ll get almost 700,000 results. The term “tax breaks for Big Oil” has almost half a million results. Then do a Google search for “tax breaks for green energy”
and you’ll only ... MORE
Who Will Defend Capitalism If Not The Capitalists?
Cowardly CEOs throw capitalism over fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff is exposing some brassy hypocrisy on Wall Street. Eager to score points with the White House, one CEO after another is throwing capitalism over the edge. Remarks by leading captains of industry over the past few weeks have sounded alarmingly anti-market. Some of these ... MORE
Marijuana Legalization Poses Threat To Prison Industry
For-profit prisons fear bleak outlook. Does the move toward legalization of marijuana pose a threat to the for-profit prison industry? On November 6th, voters in Colorado and Washington passed referenda legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. It is not clear yet how federal enforcement officials will respond to the new laws in practice, ... MORE
How's That ObamaCare Waiver Workin' Out For Ya?
by Michelle Malkin. Exactly two years ago this week, the Obama administration announced it had issued more than 100 waivers en masse to a select group of companies, unions and other health insurance providers seeking relief from the onerous federal health care law. The Obamacare waiver winner's club now totals 2,000. Where are they now? ... MORE
Ralph R. Reiland: Back When Democrats Knew Economics
Who warned us about big government spending? Eleven months before he was assassinated as he rode with his
wife in the back seat of an open convertible in a motorcade through
downtown Dallas, President John F. Kennedy delivered a major address to the Economic Club of New York at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel on December 14, 1962. ... MORE
The EPA Moves Goalposts After The Game Has Started
by Merrill Matthews. Football fans would be outraged if every time one team was preparing to kick a field goal the officials moved the goalposts further back, making it harder to score. And yet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) frequently moves the goalposts further away for companies and industries trying to abide by ... MORE
Business Insider: Rand's Dystopian Masterpiece
SEE ATLAS SHRUGGED II TRAILER HERE In a Leningrad University classroom in the early 1920s, as the professor drones on about orthodox Marxist theory, a young woman with an intense gaze is writing furiously in her notebook. The woman is Alisa Rosenbaum, later to be famous as Ayn Rand, and her jottings do not concern the relationship between ... MORE
Charles Kennedy: EPA Regulation Squelch US Coal Industry
The EPA forces through their agenda. A group of economists at the Brattle Group have just released a report that studies the impact of the Environmental Protection Agency’s
(EPA) air regulations on coal fired power plants. The findings predict
that between 59,000 and 77,000MW capacity of coal power plants will be
forced to retire ... MORE
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