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A Lavish Holiday Season for the Favored Programs of Government

by Bartlett Cleland | Dec 17, 2024 | Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Taxes & Budget

With a month to go, and only a week or so until Christmas, the Biden administration is checking its winners and losers list, and delivering cash packages as fast as it can. Welcome to the season of Bidenomics at the speed of Donner and Blitzen. Bidenomics was peddled...

When the Fix Is In, Patients Lose

by Bartlett Cleland | Feb 1, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, Healthcare Innovation, IEI post

Last year, many statehouses across the country looked to address a growing consumer issue broadly known as “right to repair.” Now with legislative sessions kicking off in more than 40 states across the country, this policy looks like it will continue to stay at the...

CLELAND: The Biden Admin’s Latest Micromanagement Project? Your Online Subscriptions

by Bartlett Cleland | Jan 17, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Privacy

The Federal Trade Commission is fast becoming a living case study in ideological overreach. Undaunted by a string of embarrassing court losses and plummeting morale among career staffers, the agency keeps grasping at the most slender reeds of legal theories and...