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How a U.S-EU green energy subsidy war harms taxpayers

The Biden administration hopes to assuage European economic fears over green energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act. The European Union is concerned that the law gives tax credits on certain electric or hybrid vehicles built in North America, excluding those made in the EU. This has ...

ChatGPT, commercially viable innovation or premature launch?

ChatGPT — or Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer — has received major media attention for its human-like dialogue and “articulate” answers across a range of knowledge. This chatbot, developed by OpenAI, was initially launched on November 30, with a stable release on February 13. ...

Biden’s Russia policy is too little and too late

War is an ugly thing. Sustained war depletes a country’s resources and typically their resolve. However, because of President Biden’s continued weakness, Russia is growing stronger, economically and in perceived strength. Russian President Vladimir Putin hoped his invasion of Ukraine ...

Seek symmetry in employment

Non-compete agreements, wherein an employee agrees not to work for a company’s competitors for some time after leaving the company’s employ, became popular during the dot-com era of the 1990s, when internet companies were struggling to grow as fast as possible and had to keep their ...

HOLY COW! HISTORY: The gift that killed general grant

Watch out for unintended consequences. They’ll get you every time. It happened 160 years ago when a simple act of courtesy set in motion a chain of events that wound up taking a famous American’s life. Really. When you hear “Ulysses S. Grant,” what comes to mind? The more scholarly ...

Credit regulation doublespeak hurts many consumers

Before the first month of 2023 was over, a raft of studies once again reinforced what we have always known: government attempts to “regulate” certain products in the name of “consumer protection,” “equity” and “justice” are flat-out disastrous for consumers, many of whom are ...