President Obama’s State of the Union Address is tonight. Along with his expected calls for higher taxes on the rich, the president’s agenda for 2015 will also include the expansion of his administration’s regulatory overreach. As President Reagan might say,…
The U.S. is participating in two trade agreement negotiations that, if successfully concluded, will meaningfully improve our nation’s economic future. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would create a trade agreement amongst Pacific Rim countries including the U.S., Japan, Canada, Australia, and…
Unfunded government pensions are driving municipalities across the country into bankruptcy — from Detroit, Michigan (the largest municipal bankruptcy ever) to Vallejo, California. Despite the need for states and municipalities to have contributed large annual payments to their pension funds…
Perhaps President Obama envisions that the Internet is operated by Ernestine, the condescending telephone operator played by Lily Tomlin on Laugh-In. Otherwise, it is difficult to justify why he would want to hobble the 21st century broadband industry with regulations…