by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 14, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on Inside Sources on August 9, 2016. An historically slow recovery with weak economic growth has created enough economic angst to fuel multiple populist, outsider campaigns this election season. At least one apparent bright spot in the economy,...
by Brian Garst | Aug 12, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
We’ve written considerably about Elon Musk’s ability to benefit from cronyism. A recent op-ed by CF&P President Andrew Quinlan drew attention to how both of the companies in the recently announced merger between Tesla Motors and SolarCity—both...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 5, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller on August 4, 2016. It was announced this week that one of Elon Musk’s companies, Tesla Motors, will buy one of his other companies, SolarCity, for an all-stock deal worth $2.6 billion. The merger was first proposed...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2016 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I have a Bureaucrat Hall of Fame to publicize civil servants who manage to get wildly over-paid while being notoriously under-worked. And I have a Moocher Hall of Fame to identify welfare recipients who have displayed special skills in living off the labor of other...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 21, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
Last year, I shared the most depressing PowerPoint slide in Danish history. Back in 2011, I wrote about a depressing picture of tax complexity in America. Let’s continue with the “depressing” theme today. James Bessen, from Boston University Law School, has an...
