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Scott Powell: Year after debt downgrade, U.S. in worse shape

_{Scott S. Powell
August 17, 2012}

A year ago this month, Standard and Poor’s fired a shot across America’s bow, downgrading the nation’s coveted AAA rating to a AA-plus. S&P’s rationale for the cut was that Congress’s Budget Control Act “fell short of the amount … necessary to stabilize … » Go

Scott Powell on Securing America with Frank Gaffney

_{Scott S. Powell
September 15, 2022}

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Scott Powell joined Frank Gaffney’s TV program Securing America with Frank Gaffney to go over a wide array of topics. The two of them discussed some of the inflammatory rhetoric from President Biden’s “Soul of the Nation” speech, the limits … » Go

How the Changes in China Constitute a Strategic Threat to the U.S. and the World

_{Scott S. Powell
April 16, 2021}

In part three of Scott Powell’s Discussion with China expert Bill Perry, Powell and Perry discuss how the ascendance of Xi Jinping, and his consolidation of power–becoming a communist dictator for life in 2018—now constitute an unprecedented strategic threat to the U.S. and the … » Go

How China’s Economy and Trade Policies with the U.S. Have Changed

_{Scott S. Powell
April 16, 2021}

Part two of Discovery Senior Fellow Scott Powell’s three-part discussion with China expert Bill Perry. Powell and Perry discuss how the economy of China has changed and why it’s necessary for the U.S. to have trade policies that protect our intellectual property and demand fairness and … » Go

Senior Fellow Scott Powell: Trump’s Push for Deregulation

_{Scott S. Powell
March 3, 2017}

Executive Orders provide temporary relief, but long term structural change is needed for the U.S. to free itself from the regulatory leviathan and permanently limit federal bureaucracies and their army of unaccountable regulators. Start with two statutory safeguards: 1) Congressional legislation … » Go

Scott Powell Talks to Students About American Free Enterprise: Its History, Its Critics, and Its Sources of Renewal

_{Discovery Institute
April 13, 2015}

The following is a transcript of a recent talk CWPM Fellow Scott S. Powell gave to a crowd of students at Florida Atlantic University. There have been many civilizations that have come into being over the last 6,000 years—from the ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, and Asian civilizations that … » Go

Powell, Tiefenthaler: Energy independence is within reach for U.S.

_{Scott Powell, Scott Tiefenthaler
May 1, 2014}

This article is co-authored by Scott Powell, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and Scott Tiefenthaler, a Houston-based seismic geophysicist. After some 40 years of OPEC cartel codependence, many Americans recognize the real and symbolic importance of the Keystone XL pipeline. It means … » Go

Powell: America must start thinking beyond energy independence

_{Scott S. Powell
April 18, 2014}

When President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, energy independence was considered impossible, with imported oil accounting for 66 percent of the oil refined in the U.S. That predicament was a troublesome weak link in U.S. national security. But unexpectedly, with the technology-driven energy boom … » Go

Scott Powell: Debt ceiling theater of the absurd

_{Scott S. Powell
October 15, 2013}

As we approach the end of another debt ceiling showdown, people need to keep their cool and remember that this is just one more sideshow in a “theater of the absurd” procession of impasses that include the S&P rating downgrade of U.S. debt, the fiscal cliff and the sequester … » Go

Powell & Lowry: GOP Needs To Go Offense

_{Scott S. Powell and David Lowry
March 14, 2012}

It’s roughly half time in the primary season, and the GOP ought to start playing like a winning team, suspending negative attack ads against Republican rivals and taking an offensive position against the real opponent. Going positive with a message about saving the very programs that are dear … » Go

The Federal Shutdown as Sideshow to the Debt Problem

_{Scott S. Powell
October 10, 2013}

Niall Ferguson correctly states that “The Shutdown Is a Sideshow—Debt Is the Threat” (op-ed, Oct. 5). Financial markets teach us that over time there is a reversion to the … » Go

To See How Marxists Plan To Destroy America, Look At Their War On Virginia’s History

_{Scott S. Powell and Ann McLean
October 3, 2022}

The United States is under a cultural and ideological attack that threatens its continuity and survival more than at any previous time in the 239-year history of the nation. And since the leaders of this attack think strategically, it should come as no surprise that Virginia would be in the … » Go

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