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Powering up America by giving consumers choice Posted : 2021-06-27 17:00 By Peter Roff America's high national living standards lead us to consider things like abundant access to clean water, comprehensive cellular service, and a reliable electric grid commonplace. Much of the rest of the world regards them as luxuries unavailable to many people. Consequently, we tend to think about these things only when they don't work. Cloudy water creates a crisis. A cell phone outage leaves us stranded. Failures in the power market leave us, literally and figuratively, in the dark about what to do. Th...

Biden Trade Policy Should Focus on International Trade Commission by Peter Roff, April 21, 2021 When you break it down, Donald Trump's trade policy was simple. "No more bad deals," he'd say while flexing America's economic muscle and bringing miscreant trading partners back into line. Joe Biden, on the other hand, has yet to make his trade priorities clear. There are a few things we do know. One, he's eager to reunite with partners on the world stage. With the pandemic and climate change as the centerpieces of his administration's international efforts, we can expect trade pacts to be less ...

Commentary: Peter Roff - The big bailout hidden in relief Peter Roff FacebookTwitterEmail The $2 trillion in new spending just enacted by congressional Democrats is a COVID relief bill in name only. It’s plenty of money all right, but so little of it goes to fighting the pandemic it brings to mind an observation attributed to Benjamin Franklin concerning an ox that had been mistaken for a bull. “He’s thankful for the honor,” the great man supposedly said, “but he’d much rather have restored what’s rightfully his.” The politicians and public sector employees whose campaign cont...

Pension bailout hidden within COVID relief bill

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