Jon Miltimore

Shrinkflation: Products You’re Buying Are Getting Smaller—Even Though Prices Are Not

The rise in consumer prices has rightly received a great deal of attention, as inflation hovers around 40-year highs. Everyone…

4 years ago

Biden Administration Refuses to Budge on Trump’s Steel Tariffs, Despite 40-Year High Inflation

On Sunday President Joe Biden’s commerce chief Gina Raimondo said the government is looking to repeal tariffs on certain goods…

4 years ago

The Federal Government’s Own Study Concluded Its Ban on ‘Assault Weapons’ Didn’t Reduce Gun Violence

Do something. This is a response—and perhaps a natural one—to a human tragedy or crisis. We saw this response in…

4 years ago

The New York Times Explains Why Mask Mandates Don’t Work

Throughout the pandemic, few things incited more discord than the mandated use of facemasks as a preventative measure to reduce…

4 years ago

How America’s Recycling Program Failed—and Scarred the Environment

In March 2019, The New York Times ran a shocking story exploring why many prominent US cities were abandoning their…

4 years ago

A Gallon of Gas Now Costs More Than the Federal Minimum Wage in These US Cities

As nearly 40 million Americans prepare to travel for Memorial Day weekend, they’re confronted with an unpleasant reality: gasoline prices…

4 years ago

WATCH: Family’s Inflation Parody of Meatloaf Hit Goes Viral

Sunday night a friend sent me a video produced by the Marsh family, an English singing group who shot to…

4 years ago

3 Real-Life Inspirations for George Orwell’s 1984

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. British literary critic…

4 years ago

What Mark Cuban Gets Right (and Wrong) about Student Debt “Cancellation”

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban made headlines Wednesday morning when he weighed in on President Biden’s proposal to “cancel” $10,000 in debt…

4 years ago

Netflix Delivers Salvo for Free Expression With 9 Little Words to Employees: ‘Netflix May Not Be the Best Place for You’

In the wake of a brutal earnings report and a sea of controversy, Netflix recently delivered a blunt message to…

4 years ago

How Government Created the Baby Formula Shortage—and a Black Market for ‘Unapproved’ European Imports

As many know, the US is confronting a shortage in baby formula that has grown quite serious. What started as…

4 years ago

US Faces Electricity Shortages Heading Into Summer, as Grid Operators Warn of Limits of Green Energy

With more than 25 years of executive experience in the utility industry, people tend to listen when MISO CEO John…

4 years ago

No Increase in Flight Cancelations After CDC Mask Mandate Lifted, Data Show

It’s been two week since a federal court threw out the CDC’s transport mask mandate, to the glee of some…

4 years ago

Energy Prices Are Projected to Increase 50% in 2022—After Doubling Last Year

Sometimes I have to remind myself how good we Americans have it because—let’s face it—there is a lot of bad…

4 years ago

Fatal Conceit: Destroying Food to Fight Climate Change Is Madness

On Earth Day, a 50-year-old environmentalist and photographer from Colorado named Wynn Alan Bruce lit himself on fire outside the…

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