California’s $100 Million Marijuana Bailout Tells You All You Need to Know about Its Government
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Read More »Harvard Business Review: Minimum Wage Hikes Led to Lower Worker Compensation, New Research Shows
Opponents of minimum wage laws tend to focus their criticism on one particular adverse consequence: by artificially raising the price…
Read More »15 States Are Moving to Curb Public Health Agency Powers Following Lockdown Carnage
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Read More »MIT Data Scientist: Lockdowns Not Correlated With Fewer Deaths (But Are Correlated With More Unemployment) |
Dozens of studies show that lockdowns were an ineffective pandemic response. The list just got longer. In May, Youyang Gu,…
Read More »Fauci’s Mask Flip-Flop, Explained (by Economics)
Last summer in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he had no regrets…
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In the summer of 1984, I desperately wanted to swim in the deep end of the water with my friends…
Read More »Why Your Summer Vacation Is Suddenly Looking Way More Expensive
Every summer I take a couple of vacations with my family—a short one to the Wisconsin Dells with my brothers-in-law…
Read More »Bitcoin Uses Half the Energy of the Banking System: New Paper
Elon Musk recently sent bitcoin prices plummeting when he announced that Tesla would no longer accept the cryptocurrency, citing concerns…
Read More »Stossel: Stop Calling It a ‘Labor Shortage.’ It’s an Incentive Shortage
It’s no secret that US businesses are struggling to find workers. Recent surveys have shown that small businesses are reporting…
Read More »Green New Disaster: Hawaii Is Replacing Its Last Coal Plant With a ‘Giant Battery’ – Powered by Oil
In 2015, Hawaii made history, becoming the first US state to mandate a full transition to renewable energy. The legislation,…
Read More »A UFC Fighter Dedicated His Victory to Victims of Communism. Here’s Why It Was Important
After dominating former Lightweight Champion Tony Ferguson over three rounds at UFC 262 on Saturday night, Beneil Dariush had a…
Read More »‘No Evidence’ That Gun Buyback Programs Reduce Gun Violence, New Economic Study Finds
Shortly before Christmas in 2018, a woman named Darlene voluntarily turned in a 9mm pistol to the Baltimore Police Department.…
Read More »Biden Says ‘Generous’ Unemployment Benefits Not Responsible for Biggest Jobs Report Miss in History. He’s Wrong
Following a dismal April jobs report, President Joe Biden took to the podium Monday to defend his administration’s economic policies.…
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