Julia Cartwright

Well, it sounds like they could be talking about the United States, too.

However, we welcome back to our panel Dr. Julia R. Cartwright, Senior Research Fellow in Law and Economics at the American Institute for Economic Research.

Dr. Cartwright, welcome back to Your News Talk America.

Are you there, Dr. Cartwright? Yes.

And the student protests, which obviously fueled many more people who were not students, clearly, but I think it's just indicative of the lack of leadership, frankly, in France, coupled with the fact that they have lost a lot of credibility because they have just been so reckless with their budget.

Right.

We're being joined on the panel this morning by Dr. Julia R. Cartwright, Senior Research Fellow in Law and Economics at the American Institute for Economic Research.

Dr. Cartwright, let me lay out some of the statistics.

But today on the show, our guest argues that this isn't a reason to panic.

When we come back, economist Julia Cartwright brings us a few examples from history to argue why the current boom in data centers doesn't mean we're doomed to high electricity prices.

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But the contents of this report was anything but boring.

They said, "Hey, we do not have the capacity or resource abundance to meet the demands of particularly electricity in the future."

Julia Cartwright is a senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, a think tank that advocates for free markets and limited government.

So the report says we anticipate that the real price of energy is going to rise about 150%.

That's a super cool title.

Julia Cartwright, Senior Research Fellow in Law and Economics, and Thomas Savidge, who is a Research Fellow at AIER.

Welcome, guys.

Thanks for having me.