posts tagged as government intervention
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April 2022
This is a peculiar time in U.S. energy policy history. The Biden administration’s newfound more-oil-and-gas-now approach is being hoisted upon a web...
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August 2021
A half-century ago this week, the energy market was forever changed by a seemingly unrelated act of government intervention. Against the recommendation...
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July 2021
Adam Smith’s masterworks from the 18th century inform today’s debates in political economy. In more recent times, Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action,...
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May 2020
Domestic oil producers have encountered an unprecedented external turbulence in recent months. In response, almost a dozen interventionist proposals have emerged since...
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April 2020
On Monday we saw an unprecedented event: the price for the May futures contract for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil dropped below...
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October 2019
Although the roughly two million affected residents of Northern California are recovering from the rolling blackouts imposed by utility PG&E, the company...
