A Christmas Carol in Cold, Cold Europe
Charles Dicken’s novel, A Christmas Carol, was set in England in the early 1840s. We hope England and Europe escapes the cold of the winter of 1840-41. Modern industrial societies should be safe from...
Author: Gregory Rehmke
US/Europe Energy Policies and Exports
A November 12 article in The Hill explains why: Natural gas: A wellspring for the US and global energy future. For students advocating energy policy reforms, natural gas provides reliable, inexpensive, and clean energy...
Julian Simon readings, Liberty Fund, Orange Beach, Alabama
Links to readings for this Liberty Fund colloquium on Population, Resources, and Liberty: The Continuing Impact of Julian Simon SESSION I : Julian Simon’s Contributions to Perennial Policy Debates• Simon, Julian.”Philosophy and My Work...
Subsidized Wood Pellet Exports to Increase Pollution and Forest Mayhem
The US Federal Government promotes, discourages, taxes, subsidizes and regulates a range of energy policies toward European countries. Current policies raise costs, consume tax dollars, reduce energy reliability, and increase pollution. What’s not to...
Free Trade: A look at Hong Kong with Milton Friedman and Johan Norberg
The economics of trade and trade policy will be key to the NCFCA resolution on import and/or export policy reform. And for the Stoa league with its U.S.-European country or countries resolution, trade policy...
Reforming US Import/Export Policies
The 2022-23 NCFCA team policy topic is: The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its import and/or export policy. Congress has passed and the USFG administers a wide range of import and export...
Reforming US/Europe Policies: Energy, Environment, Dietary/Public Health
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform its policy towards one or more countries in Europe. The Stoa Spring Vote 2022 page briefly reviews past US military operations for Europe (WWI, WWII,...
Housing and Urban Development
Choice two for the Stoa league this year is: Resolved: Housing and urban development policy should be substantially reformed in the United States. The brief discussion on the Stoa Spring Vote 2022 page notes...
NCFCA TP: International research, import/export, eastern or southern Africa
Many interesting resolutions with great opportunities to learn, discuss, and debate. [Update: the import-export policy reform topic was chosen. Discussed in other posts.] Let’s start with Africa: “The United States Federal Government should substantially...
Biomedical Engineering or Normal Nutrition? (SS/Medicaid/Medicare)
The Stoa league debate topic and institutional bias for surgery [Also posted on NormalNutrition.substack.com here.] Biases (or preferences) are baked into institutions such as the National Institutes for Health. NIH fiscal year 2021 funding of...