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How the Free Market Is Providing the Solution to Global Warming
While governments continue bickering over a climate solution, the private sector is working to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
September 25, 2020
Commodity.com
Commodities
Oil Beneath $0, Exxon Dropped From the Dow
Less Wealthy Oil Companies Signals Breathing Room For the Environment, Yet Can Rentiers Replace Oil Rent With Other Rents?
August 31, 2020
Jeffery J. Smith
Activist
Utilities Monopolize Land
The prices you pay go up whenever monopolies get their way. Will prices still rise if technology does in monopolies?
May 22, 2016
Jeffery J. Smith
Activist
Make Prices Reward “Green” Choices
Target the most sensitive body part—the wallet. Make prices tell the truth. Earth as object of speculation? Not with geonomics.
April 11, 2016
Jeffery J. Smith
Activist
Buildings Waste Energy. But We Tax’em!
You want efficient buildings yet you tax them—improving them raises their tax liability. How rational is that? Not very. So do something else!
April 3, 2016
Jeffery J. Smith
Activist
More Energy, Less Waste
The carbon tax advocated by Bill Gates can limit climate-changing pollution, but it has to be on the emissions.
October 18, 2015
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
The Copenhagen Conference a Victory for Polluters
Billions of dollars will go to the chiefs of the less developed economies, with little benefit to the people of these economies, while much deforestation will continue anyway.
December 21, 2009
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
What's the Best Way to Save Energy?
The “cap and trade” law passed by the House of Representatives also contains command-and-control regulations that affect owners of dwellings.
November 23, 2009
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
The Folly of 'Cap and Trade' Approach to Pollution Reduction
Pollution control is mandatory if humanity is to survive, but the way that governments world-wide are going about it is astonishingly insane
September 7, 2009
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Speculation and the Price of Oil
Why pay more at the pump? There are solutions!
July 1, 2008
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Save Energy, Get Punished
Government chiefs claim they want to reduce environmental damage and promote energy conservation, but in practice, they punish people for doing this
May 1, 2008
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
The High Cost of Food
When there is a product subsidy, then the increase in demand is artificial, and this shifts production from one use to another. That shift distorts prices, profits, and quantities.
April 1, 2008
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Russia's North-Pole Land Grab
Russia is trying to claim what once was owned by nobody and used only by indigenous hunters. Might there be a better way to satisfy everyone's interests?
June 1, 2007
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Liquified Tax Dollars
The coal industry spent $6 million on federal lobbying in 2005 and 2006, and if a new bill passes, they would get billions in subsidies
June 1, 2007
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Corruption in Tapping the Oil Rent
In the US, the Minerals Management Service has been lax in tapping the oil rent
December 1, 2006
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
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