Remembering Foster Friess: CRI's friend & benefactor June 4, 2021     "In 2018, Foster launched Foster's Outriders with the mission to promote principles of free enterprise, limited constitutional government, fiscal responsibility, and traditional American values. Working with Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, the foundation strives to unite Americans from all backgrounds around issues we can all agree on." These Outrider principles are totally aligned with those of C

Delaware Legislators reduced the supply of manufactured homes   by Dr. John Stapleford Co-Director Center for Analysis of Delaware's Economy & Government Spending May 7, 2021   Beginning in 2010, Delaware State legislators began efforts to put rent controls on manufactured home communities.   The argument was that there was an unequal bargaining position between community owners (landowners) and tenant-manufactured homeowners (homeowners).   If the homeowners believed that a

Reducing taxes would jump-start Delaware's economic growth   by John Toedtman, Executive Director Caesar Rodney Institute (Updated May 4, 2021)     According to the  Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council , Delaware will end up with a $425 million cash surplus at the end of this Fiscal Year 2021 (June 30, 2021). With the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan just signed into law by President Biden, there is a high probability that the small states will be given another

A look into "Delaware's Economic Recovery": strongly suggests it's time for a tax cut   by Dr. John Stapleford Co-Director, Center for Analysis of Delaware's Economy & Government Spending April 29, 2021     On April 13 th,  the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank president, Patrick Harker,  spoke to members of the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce . According to Harker, the real Delaware economic recovery is underway, but it is "a work in progress."   Total Delaware employment

Feds Approve "Environmental Disaster" off our Coast for Earth Day   by David T. Stevenson Director of Center for Energy & Environmental Policy April 19, 2021 (last updated April 20, 2021)     It is time to know the truth about what an "environmental disaster" will look like if we build thousands of skyscraper-sized wind turbines off every major coastal beach from Massachusetts to North Carolina.   Creatures from the lowly horseshoe crab to the majestic whale are threatened. V

Delaware's $7.5 Billion "Shadow Budget" dominates total spending in the first state   by Charlie Copeland, Co-Director Center for Analysis of Delaware's Economy & Government Spending April 14, 2021     Delaware will spend around $12.5 billion over the next year despite a widely-reported "General Fund Budget" of around $5 billion. The $7.5 billion "Shadow Budget" is 1.5X larger than the "General Fund" and has almost no legislative oversight or citizen input. The General Assemb