Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and opinion contributor at The Hill. He also serves on the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, co-author of On the Edge: America Faces the Entitlements Cliff, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).
He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.
Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas.
The Keystone XL Pipeline Might Have Kept Biden from Embarrassing Himself
Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have provided the U.S. with roughly the same amount of crude oil the U.S. used to buy—and hopes to buy again—from Venezuela.
Blame La Nina, Not Climate Change
News Alert! Not all droughts and floods are a result of climate change.
Russia Used 'Soft Power' to Influence EU Policies and Anti-fossil Fuel Efforts
Congress must expose any Russian financial shell games, funding schemes and money laundering intended to stymie U.S. energy production and independence.
Did Sen. Rick Scott Propose a Tax Increase?
Sen. Rick Scott's been accused of wanting to raise taxes. He may be talking about a tax principle rather than tax policy. But Republicans have to be careful how they talk about taxes.
We Want World Peace--So Why Is it So Elusive?
Although billions of people want to live in peace and never see the death and devastation war can bring, it takes only one person – in this case, Putin, backed by his enablers – to shatter that hope for peace.
Investigate Russia's Covert Funding of US Anti-fossil Fuel Groups
If Democrats and the media are still interested in finding some type of Russian collusion, maybe they should begin by investigating whether Russia actually has been covertly funneling money to environmental NGOs.
The State of the Union and the Allure of Price Controls
The left thinks it can plan and control human behavior and the economy, yet Biden's State of the Union address will likely reveal that the economy is not going as planned.
Note to Biden: The US Can't Export Renewable Energy to Our Energy-deprived Allies
The best way to ensure that U.S. wells are producing and that oil and natural gas are available at home or abroad at reasonable prices is if there is a sustained, robust international demand for energy. Not only does our economy depend on it, our, and our allies’, national security depends on it.
Russia's Minuscule Economy: The Mouse That Roars
Russia has a large, strong military but a small, weak economy—much smaller than you might think, given its belligerence.
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President Biden is desperately looking for ways to address his inflation problem by lowering prices. Eliminating most or all of President Trump's tariffs would be a good start.
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