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Consumer Inflation Expectations Suggest Prices Could Keep Rising
Over the last year, consumer prices have increased roughly 5 percent, the biggest increase in 13 years. Driven in large…
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Unemployed Households Can Earn $25/Hour on Welfare in 21 States, New Study Finds
The US economy is in a perplexing state of labor market purgatory. We have 9.3 million unfilled job openings, all…
Read More » After Skyrocketing To Record Highs, Lumber Prices Fall Back To Earth
Lumber prices have begun to drop following record highs, with futures closing Monday at their lowest price in over two…
Read More »The Compact That Preceded the Magna Carta
On this date—June 15—in the year 1215, English nobles compelled King John to affix his seal to a remarkable document,…
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1.2 Million Children World-Wide Could Die From Disrupted Healthcare Amid Pandemic Lockdowns, Analysis Finds
From mental health to drug overdoses, some of the most apparent unintended consequences from COVID-19 lockdowns and pandemic restrictions have…
Read More » Inflation Fears Reach All-Time High, Key Federal Reserve Report Shows
Consumers’ fear of inflation has surged in recent months as the price of everyday goods across industries has increased, according…
Read More »Inflation Up Again in May. The Worst Is Yet to Come.
The Commerce Department recently reported that the consumer price index (CPI) increased by .6% in May. That means prices have risen…
Read More »Viral Videos Show Maryland Teens Tased, Hogtied, Arrested for Vaping
From banning certain flavors to raising the purchasing age, government regulations restricting vaping are gaining momentum across the US. But…
Read More »Biden Administration Wants to Take More of Your Earnings Without Telling You
Three proposed initiatives show that the Biden administration and extreme-left politicians want to take control of more of your income…
Read More »Banning Alcoholic Beverages on Flights Is (Still) a Really Bad Idea
At a Senate subcommittee hearing in the summer of 1957, South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond sought to protect Americans from…
Read More »New Biography Reveals Thomas Sowell’s One-of-a-Kind Career
Thomas Sowell is a one-of-a-kind thinker, scholar, and commentator. Through his more than 50 books on subjects including economics, race,…
Read More »New Biography Reveals Thomas Sowell’s One-of-a-Kind Career
Thomas Sowell is a one-of-a-kind thinker, scholar, and commentator. Through his more than 50 books on subjects including economics, race,…
Read More »The Dark Side of Paradise: A Brief History of America’s Utopian Experiments in Communal Living
This is an article about a famous utopian community that flopped. But for context, let me first relate a story…
Read More »California Governor Gavin Newsom is Trying to Pull Off a Shocking Pandemic Power Grab
With one of the lowest COVID-19 case rates in the country, a 70+ percent adult vaccination rate, and widespread reopening…
Read More »The Malthusian Fallacy Paul Krugman Just Fell For
Over the last decade, United States population growth was at its lowest rate since the 1930s, according to a report…
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