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COP30 & Climate Energy Politics Explained | Yael Ossowski on Tony Kinnett Show
I was invited on the Tony Kinnett show to break down the realities behind COP30, climate accords, and rising energy costs for consumers. From carbon credits to EU net-zero plans, we delve into the complexities of global climate policy and its implications for your finances.
Are we allowed to plan our own retirement?
For decades, Americans have been told their 401(k) is “their” retirement, but when it comes to managing those funds, most find they have little to no control. Tax-advantaged accounts like 401(k) plans, Roth IRAs, Health Savings Accounts, and 403(b) plans generously reward people for setting money aside toward their golden years, and that comes with…
Climate lawfare is raising our energy bills, slowing our economy
The Trump administration is taking a well-earned victory lap after successfully delaying a carbon tax on the shipping and logistics industry at a United Nations meeting in London last month. “The U.S. achieved a diplomatic victory and successfully rallied a coalition to stop the body’s proposed ‘net-zero framework,’” wrote Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the effort to delay by one year a proposal to implement new climate…
Republicans Are Walking Into a Trap on Section 230 Repeal
Among political conservatives, there is no hotter potato at the moment than the civil liability protections afforded by Section 230 to online operators. Unless Republicans learn to love it again and reject the censorship lawfare complex favored by Democrats, they risk dooming our tech leaders and everyone who uses their products to the sharks circling…
Mr. President, Leave Wind Projects Alone
Energy is getting very expensive for American households. NPR reported as recently as August that one in six families struggles to pay their utility bills, and energy costs nationwide are outpacing inflation by more than 100 percent. New Englanders aren’t crazy to suspect their electric bills increased this year, and winter has yet to even…
If you want fewer Internet outages, more data centers!
The US-east-1 outage of October 20th, 2025 explains why we need yet more data centers and energy capacity. Yesterday, Internet users in the US and abroad awoke to some kind of errors and issues when loading their favorite websites and services. A global outage! Hundreds of thousands of users flocked to real time monitoring websites…
RFK’s Tylenol-autism link bails out his class action lawsuit-industry friends
The federal health bureaucracy’s latest health advice deals with Tylenol, pregnancy, and a supposed link to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. It’s a controversial flag for the Trump administration to plant, but it’s on-brand for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who knows precisely what he’s doing. RFK Jr. is relying on select studies and questionable experts for…
The Aussie experiment with ‘online safety’ is going about as well as you would expect
The Australian eSafety Commissioner is using the Online Safety Act to force online platforms to take down certain videos, or else. The Anglosphere is in the midst of yet another drawn-out battle questioning the limits of freedom of speech, online safety, and the ability for online users to share information on their social media networks.…
The Shutdown’s 800-pound Gorilla: Healthcare is political because the federal government dominates it
Like a broken clock, a reboot of a superhero movie, or a rehabilitation of Charlie Sheen, Americans faced with yet another shutdown of the federal government. With funding that expired on September 30th at midnight, the usual partisan fights are evolving and devolving in Washington, D.C., breaking open the fissures of the cobbled-together mess of…