Tapping into Strategic Oil Reserves
The International Energy Agency releasing oil reserves is a command decision. The additional oil adds supply to the market. Releasing reserves now creates a potential opportunity cost of having less reserves when they might be needed in the future. Oil is always more scarce than a lot of other commodities, but has been made even more so because of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, which is a command/government intervention move. There is high demand for oil worldwide.
Holding Congress Accountable
There is a scarcity of trust in Congress among everyday Americans. The House does not have many resources for dealing with potential ethics issue; the Senate has even fewer ethics enforcement resources. Congress is 1/3 of the Federal government, so this all falls under the umbrella of government intervention/command. The opportunity cost of continued ethics violations is a further eroding of the scarce trust of many people. The "slush fund" for paying for Congressional sexual misconduct is a surprising and perhaps distressing allocation of taxpayer-funded resources. The tradition of the expectation of an ethical government is being tested.
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