by Richard W. Rahn | Sep 13, 2022
The annual Economic Report of the World was just published by the Fraser Institute and a number of other think tanks. The authors of the Report measure economic freedom on a number of dimensions, including the size of government and taxation, legal system and property...
by Richard W. Rahn | Sep 6, 2022
Do you understand quantum physics? I didn’t think so! There are few physicists who claim to fully understand it, and there is still much disagreement among them about some core aspects of quantum physics. Nevertheless, much of it is proving to be very useful, and the...
by Richard W. Rahn | Aug 29, 2022
Over the period from 1980 and 2018, “the world’s population rose by 71.2 percent, yet the average working time to earn enough money to buy 50 kinds of energy, food, raw materials, and metals fell by 71.6 percent. Put differently, the amount of effort required to buy 1...
by Richard W. Rahn | Aug 22, 2022
The good news is that the world will be awash with clean and inexpensive energy; the bad news is that utopia may be up to a century off due to government drag. All too many people think you can just wish or legislate outcomes, such as “zero-carbon emissions by 2050,”...
by Richard W. Rahn | Aug 15, 2022
If you had been aware of the following facts, would you have voted for the just-passed climate and health care bill? The bill includes major tax increases (including tax increases on people at all income levels), greatly increases government spending and will provide...
