deregulation 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/2/2021
After 20 Years, Enron Still Haunts Us
by Gavin Benke
Despite Enron's bankruptcy and the resulting economic fallout, American business media is still dangerously credulous toward promises of "innovation" and "disruption" without asking whether the latest hot entrepreneur is using smoke and mirrors.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/21/2021
Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan
An analysis of three interrelated failures of planning, logistics, and markets that led to the Texas electrical disaster.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/21/2021
Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal
by Naomi Klein
The Texas blackouts show the political and social dead ends of the market revolution and the fossil fuel economy, says Naomi Klein. Politicians and industries wedded to the status quo are attacking the idea of a "Green New Deal" because it's encouraging people to imagine alternatives.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
2/17/2021
From COVID to Power Outages in Ice Storms, the Texas Republican Party has Created a Failed State
by Juan Cole
Texas Republicans have gotten out of the way of the market and preached the futility of government action. A non-winterized utility grid is the result.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/23/2021
Energy Deregulation Worsened the Texas Crisis — And Enron is Partly to Blame
by Gavin Benke
The problems in Texas are a product of an approach to the energy business that Lone Star State companies like Enron pursued at the end of the 20th century.
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2/18/2021
The Texas Weather and Power Catastrophe
by HNN Staff
The combination of severe winter storms and persistent cold and a deregulated energy supply system without compulsion to invest in winterization has left Texans without power, heat or drinking water for days. Senator Ted Cruz appears to have decamped to Cancun while politicians blame wind and solar power for frozen natural gas refineries.
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SOURCE: Democracy
2/17/2021
Limbaugh Was Partly Scalia and Bork’s Fault
by Michael Tomasky
"The admittedly and lamentably glorious career of the most prominent racist, sexist, poisonous radio host of our time probably never would have happened if it weren’t for a policy change: the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, under Ronald Reagan."
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SOURCE: Special to HNN
8-10-13
Jim Cullen: Review of Niall Ferguson's "The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die" (Penguin, 2013)
In The Great Degeneration, Niall Ferguson offers a précis of his libertarian brand of thinking with an expansive view of Anglo-American society -- and why it's falling apart. It rests on a key insight, and a questionable prescription.
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