Climate Skeptics, Immigration and Interest Rates

CEI launches a new video series featuring experts who are skeptical of alarmist global warming predictions.

Supporters of immigrant rights rally in several cities across the country.

The Federal Reserve announces a seventh consecutive interest rate cut.

1. ENVIRONMENT

CEI launches a new video series featuring experts who are skeptical of alarmist global warming predictions.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on the need for additional voices in the climate change debate:

“With so many activists and fellow travelers insisting that the science is settled on climate change, it is vital to remind people that there is a large – and increasing – array of experts who disagree with the misleadingly labeled ‘consensus’ view.”

 

2. IMMIGRATION

Supporters of immigrant rights rally in several cities across the country.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Crasher-in-Chief Pete Eyre on the Bureaucrash Activist Network’s “immigration is immiGREAT” campaign:

“When government imposes limits on the potential pool of mental and physical labor, it diminishes the market’s potential to create wealth and lift people out of poverty.”

 

3. BUSINESS

The Federal Reserve announces a seventh consecutive interest rate cut.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on the likely results:

“The Fed has cut interest rates again, reducing its key rate to 2 percent — a real interest rate of less than zero, after taking into account inflation. It will be about as ineffective (in stimulating the economy) as pushing on a string. But it will trigger renewed inflationary pressures. International investors are already disgusted with the Fed’s inflationary attempts to bail out borrowers by chopping interest rates, and this will make them even more reluctant to invest in the U.S.”

 

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