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Chart of the Day: Last year the United States had the largest decline in CO2 emissions *in the entire world* for the 9th time this century.
@AEIdeas
@Mark_J_Perry
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“A study by AEI shows that 90% of the $68b the US has already sent to Ukraine supports weapons factories here in the US.”
@JenGriffinFNC
on the facts: Ukraine aid isn’t a blank check to Kyiv.
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California as a separate country would have been the 5th largest economy in the world last year, ahead of the UK, France, and India.
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Capitalism isn't broken. It doesn't always work perfectly, of course. But the free market combined with our strong safety net has drastically reduced poverty and improved quality of life for the vast majority of Americans.
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The birth of the United States was unique because it was a nation founded not on blood or ethnicity, but on ideas.
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"Capitalism turns luxuries into necessities. Socialism turns necessities into luxuries."
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JUST RELEASED:
Research from AEI's
@MEaglen
estimates that China's true military spending is $710.6 billion.
This calculation is 3x larger than Beijing's self-reported totals and several billion dollars higher than estimates from the US intelligence community.
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Pro-Beijing members of Hong Kong's Legislative Council have proposed making it a crime, punishable by jail, to disrespect the playing of the Chinese national anthem. But don't expect many NBA stars to speak out against it, writes
@GaryJSchmitt1
.
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President George H. W. Bush’s handwritten note to incoming President Bill Clinton is a model of political civility.
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Prediction: No 2017 graduation speaker will mention this – the growing ‘gender college degree gap’ favoring women
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'You can’t redistribute wealth without creating it. And that is what innovation-driven
#capitalism
has done really well for the past two centuries.'
#endpoverty
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The truth is that most black men will not be incarcerated, are not unemployed, and are not poor. In fact, millions of black men are flourishing in America today.
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The Czech Republic proves that the costs of a principled, values-based posture toward China are much smaller than Europe’s current waffling between talk of “partnership” and “systemic" rivalry.
@DaliborRohac
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More than half of young Germans do apprenticeships. Why don't Americans?
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The strength of capitalism can be attributed to the the 3 Ps:
1) Prices determined by market forces.
2) A profit-and-loss system of accounting.
3) Private property rights.
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Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2016 for 8th straight year & outnumber men in grad school 135-100.
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Beijing has been waging an audacious campaign to set the limits of political speech not just in China but also in countries around the globe, posing a profound challenge to the democratic world.
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Give credit where its due: Trump’s strategy to get NATO allies to spend more appears to be working.
@marcthiessen
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Inconvenient energy fact: It takes 79 solar workers to produce same amount of electric power as one coal worker.
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Ukraine must be allowed to hit military targets in Russia with US weapons.
From AEI's
@HalBrands
.
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International trade is a vital part of the U.S. economy and has a positive impact on each of our 50 states.
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Democratic presidential candidates remain dismissive of the American economy and its record-long expansion. They fail to recognize that wages are rising, and they're rising fastest for those at the bottom.
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Not only is the economy continuing to generate gobs of jobs, but the expansion is now in record territory.
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• Tanks from Lima, Ohio
• HIMARS from Niceville, Florida
• Rocket parts from Huntsville, Alabama
Ukraine aid is reinvigorating American jobs — in states and cities whose politicians have voted against it.
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In recent years, the Christmas radio classic "Baby, It's Cold Outside" has begun disappearing from the airwaves amid accusations that it promotes sexual entrapment.
#FactualFeminist
@CHSommers
begs to differ.
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Reality: 90% of the aid already allocated for Ukraine has stayed in the US, supporting American workers and modernizing an atrophied US defense manufacturing base.
AEI's
@MarcThiessen
on the America First argument to keep supporting Ukraine.
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How is supporting Ukraine in line with 'America First' policies?
@MarcThiessen
gives 10 reasons in the
@WashingtonPost
👇
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Like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, the 23% wage gap claim is a myth that just won’t die.
#EqualPayDay
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While socialism promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny.
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We’re too dependent on China for too many critical goods. Especially medicine.
@dpletka
@DerekScissors1
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"In my opinion, there is no economist alive today who has done more to eloquently, articulately, and persuasively advance the principles of economic freedom, limited government, individual liberty, and a free society than Thomas Sowell." —
@Mark_J_Perry
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ICYMI:
@senrobportman
cited a map from
@criticalthreats
and
@TheStudyofWar
during his recent Senate floor speech👇
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"Do you want it to be the 1930s, when America watched from afar as dictators began to march? We pretended we were safe, only to be attacked with our guard down."
AEI Irving Kristol Awardee Paul Gigot on the dangers of New Right isolationism.
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Free markets, free trade, and
#capitalism
propelled the US from a minor colony to a global economic superpower and the world’s largest economy, with dozens of metro areas that produce the equivalent to the GDP of some of the world’s largest countries.
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Only 52 US companies have been on the Fortune 500 since 1955, thanks to the creative destruction that fuels economic prosperity.
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Release: Paul Ryan joins AEI as a distinguished visiting fellow
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Biden has a variety of options to both counter China and uphold human rights. Wavering on Uigher genocide is not one of them.
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The wage discrimination myth has made it to the Super Bowl because it has become an enthusiasm — with rallies, speak-outs, affinity networks, even its own holiday. The truth about pay disparities can hardly compete.
@CHSommers
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"The entire Republican party was unprepared for actually winning the fight... over abortion... Some of them had been stuck in positions that were theoretical, that never had to be put to the political test in an actual election."
@RameshPonnuru
on
@TheLeadCNN
with
@jaketapper
📺
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Many Americans think poverty is a constant state for those who experience it. Many also think most poor people hold steady jobs. A new working paper suggests that both conditions are actually very uncommon.
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“What’s Your Major”: Another Blow to the So-Called Gender Pay Gap
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Subsidized loans drive up tuition far more than other forms of student aid. How is that progressive?
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.
@Mark_J_Perry
's “bar chart race” visualization shows the world’s top ten manufacturing nations by share of world factory output from 1970 to 2017.
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Prediction: No 2017 graduation speaker will mention this – the growing ‘gender college degree gap’ favoring women
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What’s keeping you from finding love?
New data show when it comes to dating dealbreakers, the only things less desirable than being a Trump supporter are smoking, unemployment, or long distance.
@dcoxpolls
’s research identifies least appealing traits for potential partners👇
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"Capitalism turns luxuries into necessities. Socialism turns necessities into luxuries."
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A state of constant conflict is a major source of stress and unhappiness for millions. Is there a solution?
@arthurbrooks
& The Dalai Lama believe the answer is yes.
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Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2016 for 8th straight year & outnumber men in grad school 135-100.
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Prediction: No 2017 graduation speaker will mention this – the growing ‘gender college degree gap’ favoring women
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This map really puts America’s ridiculously large $18T economy into perspective.
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As
@ZelenskyyUa
is named
@TIME
’s 2022 Person of the Year, we’re flashing back to
@KoriSchake
’s visit with the Ukrainian president in September. She described him as “historic in his own time—brave, smart, funny, and incredibly inspiring.”
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Dr. Fauci: China delayed our understanding of COVID-19’s efficient transmissibility
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America’s future depends on Congress. But today, Congress is increasingly polarized and ineffective.
Phil Wallach's forthcoming book 'Why Congress' examines the history of Congress & offers solutions to work through our toughest political problems🎥
Pre-order your copy today.
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🚨 NEW AT AEI 🚨
Can't get enough of AEI podcasts? We're bringing Banter, What the Hell Is Going On, and Eastern Front to YouTube, too!
Check it out👇
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• HIMARS from Florida
• C-4 from Tennessee
• Abrams tanks from Ohio
Ukraine aid is invigorating 122 defense production lines across 65 congressional districts, even in those whose representatives voted against it.
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“What’s Your Major”: Another Blow to the So-Called Gender Pay Gap
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Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2016 for 8th straight year & outnumber men in grad school 135-100.
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Is it time for a new system of government?
@Jay__Cost
's "Democracy or Republic?" makes the case for a renewed hope in America's political system.
Order your copy today!
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Chart of the day, or... of the century?: Price changes 1997 to 2017
from
@Mark_J_Perry
@AEIdeas
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What are the 'America First' reasons for supporting Ukraine?
Watch the full video series on YouTube as
@marcthiessen
outlines 10 reasons for America to support Ukraine 👇
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@mike_mazza
: Beijing should be stripped of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics to best ensure the health and safety of athletes, officials, journalists, and spectators and to hold China accountable for its many misdeeds.
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This week we had Equal Pay Day, but the next ‘Equal Occupational Fatality Day’ will be on January 21, 2029.
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How was 80% of the world’s worst poverty eradicated in less than 40 years? Free market capitalism.
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Animated chart of the day: US state job growth, 1990 to 2019
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“What’s Your Major”: Another Blow to the So-Called Gender Pay Gap
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The best anti-poverty program isn't on this chart. It's free enterprise.
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To snuff out the pandemic as quickly as possible, national pharmacy chains should be allowed to play a role in getting shots in arms, argues
@ScottGottliebMD
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This map really puts America’s ridiculously large $18T economy into perspective.
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An AEI report from
@ScottGottliebMD
et al. provides a roadmap for navigating
#COVID19
, outlining the steps that can be taken as transmission is brought under control, with measurable milestones for reopening America for businesses & families:
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@ScottGottliebMD
: It’s time to start testing patients with unexplained pneumonia, even if they haven’t traveled to China.
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🚨BIG NEWS🚨
Matthew Continetti has been named the Director of Domestic Policy Studies at AEI.
"Amid divides on the political right, the country urgently needs AEI’s creative thinking, impartial scholarship, and principled policy solutions," said
@continetti
.
Details below 👇
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The best anti-poverty program isn't on this chart. It's free enterprise.
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The truth is that most black men will not be incarcerated, are not unemployed, and are not poor. In fact, millions of black men are flourishing in America today.
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"Protectionist measures have been tried, and tried, and tried again: for low-tech and high-tech products, by Democratic and Republican administrations, in booms and in busts... In advancing the interests of Americans as a whole, its record is one of almost unrelieved failure."
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Check it out: America's ridiculous $19 trillion economy shown by comparing the GDP of US metro areas to countries
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"The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents."
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The best anti-poverty program isn't on this chart. It's free enterprise.
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A different kind of
#inequality
: Men are 12X more likely than women to die from their jobs.
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"I suggested that more balance was needed in academic programming. Within hours, my office door and surrounding corridor was vandalized."
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Bono: America is ‘an idea.’ That’s how we see you around the world, as one of the greatest ideas in human history
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Amazon does not need the Post Office; the Post Office needs Amazon.
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"In journalism, going back and substantially “fixing” your copy without alerting readers to what you’ve changed and why is a huge no-no.
But this is much, much worse."
@JonahDispatch
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A new study finds that in-person instruction presents the same risk of fatality as driving alone in a car for 16 miles, a level of risk that many teachers took while driving to school-reopening protests.
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All of us are immensely proud of
@ScottGottliebMD
, an AEI scholar since 2003. In addition to his many accomplishments, he was recently named No. 24 in
@Mediaite
's Most Influential in News Media 2021.
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Join Robert Doar as he sits down with the nation’s most preeminent policy experts to explore the issues facing America today.
Tune in to One on One with Robert Doar - for insights into the issues!
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On the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine,
@KoriSchake
calls on the West to help ensure Ukrainian victory and rebuild the nation post-war 🇺🇦
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The truth is that most black men will not be incarcerated, are not unemployed, and are not poor. In fact, millions of black men are flourishing in America today.
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At yesterday’s event with
@DaliborRohac
and
@IRIglobal
’s
@ahrferrier
,
@Tsihanouskaya
made the case that the US cannot solely focus on combatting China and must combat tyranny worldwide 👇
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A different kind of
#inequality
: Men are 12X more likely than women to die from their jobs.
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'Over the last 12 years, I’ve probably posted more than 3,000 graphics...Of all of those, I don’t think any single one has ever gotten more attention, links, RTs, re-posts, and mentions than this one.'
@Mark_J_Perry
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