Build Back Better

By: National CT/ET Fellow Hannah Slowik They say fear of layoffs causes more psychological damage than the act of layoffs itself. By now all major Onshore Wind OEMs have taken drastic action to combat continued pressures from inflation, supply chain challenges, and reductions in unit volume. Vestas has eliminated hundreds…

Late last year, President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislation died in the Senate. Moving into the first half of 2022, we have seen gas and energy prices skyrocket, seemingly with no end in sight. What will President Biden’s energy policy look like sans Build Back Better, and what is…

About a year and a half ago, I wrote a sanguine piece about Joe Biden, celebrating our ability to unite around him, despite his myriad flaws. I was, perhaps, a less-reluctant supporter of Biden than many of my fellow Progressives. My primary reason for this lack of reluctance is that…

A Party That Serves the 0.1 Percent While Posturing for the People Needs “Obstacles” — First, a prediction. Joe Biden will finally declare a climate emergency. This will empower him to order a series of significant actions. He will, however, prescribe precious few, and the declaration will be mostly, well, a declaration. Joe Manchin’s and Kyrsten Sinema’s ability to block climate-change, infrastructure, voting-rights, and tax-reform…

Senate Democrats may pass a trimmed down climate-social benefit package I was wrong: it’s ‘not over…’, yet. (1) Climate legislation passed the House that will be paid for by taxing the wealthy. Family and health care benefits passed the House that will be paid for by taxing the wealthy. …

Welcome to the World of the Wealth Class and Their Infinite Universe of Free Stuff I was recently reading an editorial from a publisher of a New Hampshire newspaper, entitled “Why the Free Stuff Isn’t Free.” …

The Pandora Papers, Money Laundering, and the Theft of a Nation’s Wealth In the annals of Greek mythology, when Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus, the king of the gods, took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Prometheus’ brother Epimetheus. …