Tag: industrial news
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Opinion | The Nippon Steel Protectionists
[ad_1] The news that Japan’s Nippon Steel will purchase U.S. Steel has sent much of Washington into a political fit, and President Biden is now registering his great concern, teeing up a government investment committee to review the sale. Public service reminder: Japan is arguably America’s most important ally as a bulwark against China. The…
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Opinion | Biden’s Foolish Snub of Nippon Steel
[ad_1] Nippon Steel’s proposed $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel “appears to deserve serious scrutiny,” the White House said Thursday. The statement came after an outcry from protectionist lawmakers, including Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.), who have cited union and national-security concerns and vowed to block the sale. The anti-Japanese business rhetoric is reminiscent of…
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Opinion | Congress’s College Financial Aid Fiasco
[ad_1] Next to paying tuition bills, parents of college-age students dread few things more than completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, aka FAFSA. So it would seem to be good news that the Education Department this month is rolling out a new and supposedly simpler form. But government makes nothing free or simple.…
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Opinion | Union to Eric Adams: Drop Dead
[ad_1] Public unions are big cities’ toughest customers, even for an ally like New York’s Eric Adams. The mayor is patching the city’s budget amid a growing migrant crisis, but government workers are dragging him to court to block cost savings. One of New York’s largest public unions sued Wednesday to prevent City Hall from…
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Opinion | California Kills Auto Jobs in Toledo
[ad_1] Sacramento’s crusade to banish fossil fuels isn’t merely destroying jobs in California. It’s harming workers in other states too. On Thursday Chrysler parent Stellantis warned 3,600 auto workers in the Midwest that they could lose their jobs owing to California’s electric-vehicle mandate. Stellantis said it plans to cut a shift at a Jeep plant…
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Opinion | Biden Ambushes Pharma Patents
[ad_1] While the press frets about Donald Trump establishing the Fourth Reich, President Biden is rewriting laws to arrogate sweeping power for himself. On Thursday the Administration threatened to seize patents of drugs and other innovations, which could be its most economically destructive executive act to date. The Commerce and Health and Human Services Departments…
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Opinion | The Truth About Net Zero, at Last
[ad_1] The great and good of politics and business have converged on Dubai this week for the global climate conference known as COP28, and by now they must wish they hadn’t. The event has done the one thing such confabs are supposed never to do, which is expose the truth about climate change and the…
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Opinion | John Kerry and CO2 Emissions Reality
[ad_1] Give John Kerry credit for persistence if not realism. President Biden’s climate envoy keeps demanding the end of fossil fuels while the world continues to blow through his apocalyptic warnings. A new report in time for the COP28 climate conference in Dubai says that global CO2 emissions will hit a new peak this year.…
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Opinion | Congress Takes on the EV Mandate
[ad_1] House Republicans have teed up a vote this week on legislation to block President Biden’s back-door electric-vehicle mandate. Democrats are spinning the legislation as an attack on public health, innovation and free markets. The debate is a preview of what we can expect in the 2024 election campaign. The Environmental Protection Agency “is not…
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Opinion | Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America
[ad_1] America faces a formidable range of calamities: crime out of control, borders in chaos by design, children poorly educated while sexualized and politicized against parental opposition, unconstitutional censorship, a press that does government PR rather than oversight, our institutions and corporations debased in the name of “diversity, equity and inclusion”—and more. To these has…
