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Offshore wind energy might be the starkest example of how broken our permitting process has become. The United States has 42 megawatts of offshore wind capacity in operation. There is currently more than 18,000 megawatts (!) of potential capacity stuck waiting for permits...

Gourmet to Go

Carbon pricing, whether through carbon taxes or cap and trade, has been one of the big successes of economic ideas. 70 national and subnational jurisdictions covering 23% of global emissions have adopted them--including the European Union and China.

Is California finally reckoning with its housing imbalance? Staff writer Mcconnell Bristol talks about the steps to address California's housing problem. brownpoliticalreview.org/2023/03/califo…

It's a great day in Colorado Springs. Let's get to work.

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Yes! Yes!!

This debate has a serious anti-Doug Burgum bias

Thanks to immigrants, the US won 75% of Nobel prizes in 2023. Without them, we only would have won 25%. High skilled immigration is a policy lever for more innovation unlike anything else. Oh and its free.

New op-ed from me, talking about how the Bush tax cuts, their bipartisan extensions, and the Trump tax cuts broke our modern revenue code. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

Behold, National Park LVIII.

McConnell Bristol (McConnell Bristol), a sophomore concentrating in political science and economics, examined working-class political representation and the economic impacts of population growth in Colorado mountain towns in a recent research paper. 🎥➡️ vimeo.com/873069553

For anyone who is sometimes struggling to comprehend the enormous speed of the energy transition towards renewables (myself included), this deck by the Rocky Mountain Institute is a gold mine. rmi.org/wp-content/upl…

Time to cut Federal Reserve !

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Interesting, and funny to argue this wouldn’t be a worthy tradeoff, but I think a much better answer is that we haven’t:

Whenever I talk to YIMBY advocates and lawmakers about ways the federal government could deal with housing, I ask whether they’ve thought about trying to repeal or reform the DC Height Act. Usually, they say no. I hope this study helps change that. brookings.edu/articles/up-or…

Coloradans will soon be able to file their federal income taxes directly online for free under a program created by the Inflation Reduction Act. trib.al/JYSQI2Z