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12/12/2025

The loudest voices attacking data centers today are the same ones who’ve ignored America’s crumbling electric grid for decades.

Conveniently, they’ve found a shiny distraction: AI, cloud computing, and high-density data centers.

But the truth—confirmed by federal research, independent analysts, and basic economics—is that data centers are not driving higher electricity prices. Government-owned and government-regulated utilities are.

If policymakers spent half as much time fixing their own failures as they spend blaming innovators, Americans would already have lower bills.

This isn’t a tech problem. It’s a government problem.

And until we acknowledge that reality, electricity prices will continue rising no matter how many data centers get built—or blocked.

America’s future depends on building—and privatizing—the next generation of essential infrastructure.

https://vanceginn.substack.com/p/stop-blaming-data-centers-start-fixing

12/11/2025

Great to visit with in DC yesterday! She has been a huge part of our success at Ginn Economic Consulting. Thank you, Mollie!

12/11/2025

NEW EPISODE: If you’re trying to understand why starter homes have vanished, why marriage and birth rates are falling, or why your kids can’t afford to move out, you won’t find a clearer guide than Dr. Emily Hamilton at Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Her latest piece in Governing, “To Support Families, Repair the Housing Ladder,” is a must-read.

It makes a simple but devastating point: lWe’ve eliminated the low rungs of the housing ladder—and now we’re shocked people can’t climb it.

Starter apartments? Outlawed. Manufactured housing? Zoned out.
SROs? Gone. Family-friendly rentals? Blocked by NIMBY politics. And now the U.S. is flirting with population decline for the first time ever.

This conversation makes clear: you can’t have a thriving society, strong families, or a growing population without affordable housing. And affordable housing requires freedom, not more bureaucracy.

Watch, listen, share, and subscribe: https://vanceginn.substack.com/p/how-bad-zoning-broke-the-housing

12/10/2025

I enjoyed a Christmas party on a rooftop overlooking the U.S. Capitol, taking in its majestic and leviathan view.

12/10/2025

Why are some Republicans wanting to prop up Obamacare?

There’s a better way to empower patients!

Check out my latest newsletter and subscribe: https://vanceginn.substack.com/p/stop-propping-up-obamacare

12/10/2025

12/09/2025

Across classrooms, homes, and hospitals worldwide, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping childhood and health. Not in some distant, futuristic way—but right now.

This advanced computing is helping children learn to read, teenagers overcome language barriers, parents support their kids’ education, and doctors diagnose and treat patients faster and more accurately. AI is creating customized, affordable tools for learning and care—tools that were once only available to the rich.

And yet, much of the political response in the U.S. and abroad has been marked by one thing: fear.
Instead of welcoming these advances, too many governments are trying to clamp down—regulating AI development before they even understand it. They’re trying to micromanage algorithms instead of holding people accountable for results. That’s backwards.

As The Economist put it in a powerful recent piece, “children are the pioneers—and guinea pigs—of artificial intelligence.” The question isn’t whether they’ll grow up using AI. They already are. The real question is: will we empower families to adapt and thrive—or will we smother progress in red tape?

Read my latest: https://vanceginn.substack.com/p/ai-is-improving-education-and-healthdont

12/08/2025

What the last economic news of 2025 reveals about the challenges ahead.

Watch, share, subscribe: https://vanceginn.substack.com/p/what-decembers-headlines-mean-for

12/05/2025

Washington has a famous trick: declare something “temporary,” then treat it as permanent the moment anyone depends on it.

That’s exactly what happened with the turbocharged Obamacare subsidies created during COVID.

These subsidies dramatically expanded eligibility—pulling millions of middle-income Americans into a program never designed for them.

Now, according to The Economist, those temporary subsidies finally expire at the end of this month. And unless Congress acts, the Congressional Budget Office says 3.5 million people could lose health insurance coverage over the next few years.

Here’s the twist: Most of these people live in Republican-leaning states. The political panic is predictable. The policy drift is not.

The GOP spent 14 years arguing Obamacare was failing—and they weren’t wrong. But now the enhanced Obamacare subsidies that masked that failure are vanishing, and Republicans are scrambling for a response that doesn’t exist yet. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal warns we are “sprinting toward healthcare gridlock” with no unified strategy, no clarity, and no courage.

Washington didn’t design this cliff overnight. It built it over decades.

We need to empower patients, here’s the full article with why and how: https://vanceginn.substack.com/p/the-gops-obamacare-subsidy-hangover

12/04/2025

This week on the Let People Prosper Show, I sit down with someone who has lived enough life experience to fill three biographies: Dr. Meaghan Mobbs () of .

She’s a West Point grad, paratrooper, combat veteran of Afghanistan, clinical psychologist, humanitarian leader in Ukraine, national security advisor, and now one of the sharpest voices at the Independent Women’s Forum.

Her new report, Women and the West: Liberty, Tyranny, and True Liberal Values, is a wake-up call. It argues that women’s rights are being quietly eroded inside the very societies that claim to be the most “progressive.” And she’s right — something is slipping.

This episode digs into the uncomfortable truth: freedom for women isn’t collapsing in some distant corner of the world; it’s being chipped away here at home under slogans like “equity,” “inclusion,” and “progress.”

We talk about true liberalism (the good kind), the danger of what Meaghan calls “suicidal empathy,” why motherhood sharpened her perspective, and how Western civilization can still protect what made it great.

It’s an important conversation — and an encouraging one — at a moment when the West badly needs clarity.

Check it out today…https://vanceginn.substack.com/p/women-and-the-west-liberty-strength

12/04/2025

Typical fearmongering by those who want to keep people from owning property is on full display below.

Texas CAN eliminate property taxes while reducing the overall tax burden and funding limited government.

Just need truth and courage. Here’s why & how: https://vanceginn.substack.com/p/why-texas-can-eliminate-property