by Richard W. Rahn | Nov 28, 2022
The U.N. annual climate conference (COP27) that just concluded in Egypt might have set the record for the greatest number of bad ideas ever presented at a major international conference. The expressed reason for these conferences is to solve the global-warming...
by Richard W. Rahn | Nov 21, 2022
POLITICAL SAY GOES TO VERY RICH INDIVIDUALS WHO CAN AFFORD THE ‘ACCESS’ TARIFF Why are some countries rich and others very poor? At the top of this list, put corruption — both policy and personal. The enclosed table contains one of the common measures of...
by Richard W. Rahn | Nov 14, 2022
STOP ANY NEW DEFICIT SPENDING AND ALLOW INTEREST RATES TO RISE AT MARKET LEVELS Inflation makes you rich — well, not exactly — but it can make you appear rich. As a teenager, did you dream of having a $100,000 car and a million-dollar home? A few more years of the...
by Richard W. Rahn | Nov 7, 2022
THE GERMANS TRIED SOLAR AND WIND ENERGY – AND ARE NOW RAPIDLY BUILDING NEW COAL PLANTS Last week, President Biden attacked the coal industry. He said his administration was going “to be shutting down these plants all across America…” He also said that wind and solar...
