The Partisan Divide Over the Carbon Tax is all Smoke Alex Brill and Scott Ganz | Real Clear Policy Republican lawmakers who oppose a carbon tax are usually motivated by a belief that their constituents will get a raw deal. But standard...
FDA Should Approve Less Harmful Alternatives to Cigarettes Alex Brill | The Daily Caller Cigarettes are known killers, with nearly one in five deaths each year in the United States attributable to smoking. But there is a chance that U.S. smokers may soon be able to...
New State-Level Estimates of the Economic Burden of the Opioid Epidemic Alex Brill | AEIdeas No one disputes that opioid abuse has caused an epidemic in our country, one that costs tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions, of dollars per year. Less well known,...
MGA’s Alex Brill on CNBC’s Squawk Box During Alex Brill’s latest Squawk Box interview, he discusses the outlook for the labor economy based on the December jobs report: “Those with a college degree or more have been enjoying a relatively tight labor market...