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Texas Senate Backs Plan to Publicly Fund New Gas-Fired Power Plants
It really is a signal that Texas politicians no longer have faith that competitive markets can adequately and economically satisfy the electricity needs of Texas citizens,” said Beth Garza, a ...
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Insurance Fraud: A $300 Billion Crime
Insurance fraud is the second-largest category of white-collar crime, surpassed in size only by tax evasion. A blight on our economy, insurance fraud impacts every property and casualty insurance line ...
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Lawmakers still turn blind eye toward our pension debt
When arguing about whether the Treasury needed to take urgent action to deal with soaring federal debt in the 1980s, the late former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Herb Stein coined ...
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CFPB Credit Card Late Fee Goes into Effect
The much-derided Credit Card Late Fee Rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has now been implemented. The ...
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Low-Energy Fridays: How Many Regulators Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?
It may be lights out for the fluorescent lightbulb. The Biden administration finalized new efficiency standards for ...
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A Modest Proposal for Police Reform
In the last year, I’ve made three driving errors that sparked the notice of the police. In my latest misstep, I carelessly ...
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Chevron deference is running on fumes
As the current term of the U.S. Supreme Court heads toward its end in June, Court watchers are anticipating a decision that ...
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‘Equity’ grading is latest destined-to-fail education fad
SACRAMENTO – Modern public-education history is littered with novel education theories that have failed so spectacularly that ...
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Letter in support of the VICTIM Act
Dear Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Graham, and members of the Committee: The R Street Institute is happy to support the Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods Act or ...
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Lessons from the States on Entitlement Reform
Lawmakers have an opportunity to overcome the long- standing reputation of Social Security as the third rail of American ...
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Do white rural Americans pose a threat to democracy?
In this week’s episode of Politics In Question, Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman join Lee and James to discuss the urban-rural divide in American politics. Schaller is a professor of political science ...
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Software group cites concerns as stakeholders weigh in on revamped privacy bill
Brandon Pugh of the R Street Institute, in a statement for the record, offers support for the bill on state pre-emption, allowing uses of data for security purposes and other aspects of the draft ...