Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
You’ve got to hand it to the climate alarmists: They do some really skillful marketing (or what a skeptic might call “propagandizing”) to promote their cause.
Millions of Americans should watch this movie. It sounds a timely warning about the political regimentation into which the climate alarmists wish to herd us.
The engine that has been driving prices higher (and the purchasing power of our currency lower) is not “greedy corporations,” but Uncle Sam and the Fed.
The left’s constant corporation-bashing manifests gross ignorance of a salient economic truth: Corporations are the major economic benefactors of our country.
The ethos that impelled generations of American leaders to refrain from laying a heavy debt burden on America’s children and grandchildren is long gone.
There are many reasons to halt the drive to eliminate fossil fuels. The charge toward renewables isn’t rational; it’s the fanaticism of a quasi-religious cult.