In the six months since President Biden signed the landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directing a trillion dollars of government investments in transportation systems and high-speed internet access, federal agencies have begun rolling out the rules that will govern thousands of projects. ...
Earlier this year, sky-high inflation forced the Federal Reserve to slam the monetary policy brakes. The same appears to be happening in Europe, where the European Central Bank (ECB) is being forced to reverse course to contend with inflation at the highest level since the euro’s 1999 ...
Note to medical professionals in 2022: You may greatly embarrass your great-grandchildren. From 1999 to 2017, I taught 48 semester-long classes in health economics to master’s and doctoral students. My students were mid-career doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. Today, I ...
Who says bipartisan solutions to high prescription drug prices are impossible? Senators Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, recently introduced legislation to rein in the biggest culprit behind high drug costs: pharmacy benefit managers. The bill prohibits some of PBMs’ ...
The 27-member European Union has agreed to a partial ban on Russian oil in a move that will affect 75 percent of its imports now and 90 percent by the end of the year. The bloc had originally proposed to impose an immediate and full embargo on all Russian imported oil but had to settle for a ...
The Food and Drug Administration’s recently announced proposal to ban menthol cigarettes is ill advised on multiple fronts. Not only does this proposal make no economic sense but it also fails to recognize a simple fact: People in a free society should be free to choose their poison. The ...
