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Is This What A Trade War Looks Like?
NPR
Glenn Hubbard, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and ACCF Scholar discusses the trade debate with NPR's David Greene.
EPA Leads the Way on Permitting Reform
Real Clear Policy
The mere act of reevaluating a permitting process intended to protect the environment is not, in itself, pretext for allowing manufactures to pollute more. Environmental regulations, like all regulations, need to be evaluated with respect to their mandated purpose.
Don’t skimp on energy innovation dollars — interest groups
E&E News
"If steps are not taken to bolster U.S. leadership in this sector, the nation could eventually need to import energy technologies from China, rather than domestically manufacture them and export them across the world," wrote the groups, which include American Council for Capital Formation.
Most everything is better than you think
The Washington Times
The Trump administration has been undertaking a massive deregulation effort in order to get rid of regulations that are counterproductive and do not meet reasonable cost-benefit tests. This will reduce the direct regulatory expenses made by government but will cause a far larger reduction in private business and personal expenses made to support regulations.
A debt crisis is on the horizon
The Washington Post
ACCF Scholars weigh in on the looming debt crisis.
Talking Trade with Gary Hufbauer
Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) nonresident senior fellow Gary Hufbauer recently spoke with the Adam Smith...
Trump’s tariff is the wrong way for trade enforcement — but there is a right way
Washington Examiner
In contrast to sweeping tariff proposals, targeted and deliberate enforcement efforts are imperative both to maintain public trust in international trade and to ensure the domestic economic benefits of those agreements.
Despite Opposition, Trump Is Expected To Unveil International Tariffs Soon
NPR
Rachel Martin talks to ACCF Scholar Glenn Hubbard about the looming tariffs.
Trump’s Really Bad Idea
Washington Times
With his steel and aluminum tariff proposals, President Trump seems to have missed some of the trade basics that Adam Smith and David Ricardo taught the world more than two centuries ago.
Capital Corner Blog
- End Market Distortions to Keep Energy Sector CompetitiveTo call U.S. power sector developments of the last couple weeks “interesting” would be an understatement. Two weeks ago, the Department of Energy issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) that aims effectively to bring back or keep online some of the less competitive coal and nuclear power plants. That proposed rule was followed this […]Dr. Pinar Cebi Wilber
- Thoughts on the Regulatory Accountability ActThe Regulatory Accountability Act incorporates many bipartisan solutions to problems that have plagued the expansion of the federal regulatory system. The ideas expressed in the bill are certainly worthy of continued analysis and discussion. Read more in the Bloomberg View column by Cass Sustein: A Regulatory Reform Bill That Everyone Should Like Look! Bipartisanship […]Tim Doyle
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