As a longtime advocate for capitalism, I’ve been considering the prospects for free market ideas in a White House presided over by either of the two major party candidates for president. It’s not an easy challenge. Both candidates, in their own way, misunderstand the need for, and the benefits of, a free economy. And it’s […]
If I were moderating a GOP presidential debate, I might ask a question like this: India’s Tata Steel has announced plans to sell or shutter its British operations. The UK business directly employs 15,000 workers with, I assume, those jobs supporting many thousands of others. It’s another indication that British steel-making is in permanent decline. […]
Whatever one thinks of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, when it comes to fighting against the unhealthy marriage of government and big companies (also known as cronyism), he has been more principled and courageous than all of the other remaining candidates in this race. Case in point: Even though on the campaign trail in Iowa, and in […]
Now a week out from the Iowa caucuses, the politics of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)—the federal mandate requiring fuel refiners to blend biofuels into their gas and diesel fuels—are nearing their quadrennial high watermark. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad exhibited as much last week, publicly calling for the defeat of presidential candidates who support eventually ending the […]
If Ted Cruz holds on to his slim lead in Iowa, he may be the first politician in ages in either party to win the Hawkeye presidential caucuses without supporting federal ethanol supports. Cruz has been under constant assault from the ethanol lobby to get behind the mandates that ethanol be blended into gasoline. The […]