Economy
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Blue State Primed To Clear Cut Hundreds Of Acres Of Forest To Make Way For Solar Panels
By Nick Pope Michigan is poised to cut down hundreds of acres of forest in order to make space for…
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Global life expectancy and income hit all-time high; poverty falls worldwide
“According to the United Nations, the average global life expectancy in 2019 was 72.6 years. It dropped to 70.9 years…
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Amazon warehouses benefit local economies, study finds
Groups staffed by progressives have claimed that Amazon warehouses harm local economies, such as a left-wing group whose managers include…
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Biden Admin Invoked ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ To Cut Alaska Drilling, But Some Tribal Leaders Are Ready For Trump
By Nick Pope The Biden administration justified major crackdowns on fossil fuel and mineral development in Alaska by playing up…
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North Carolina bans downzoning, protecting property rights
“Last week, the Republican-controlled North Carolina Legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill (S.B.) 382—an omnibus bill…
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Cruise ships keep breaking records
“Airplanes today fly no faster than they did in the 1970s. In many countries, road speeds have decreased,” notes Works…
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It’s Time To Improve Our Ports
by John Stossel Some union leaders are self-destructive idiots. America’s ports have fallen behind. Not a single one ranks in…
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Kenya will build its first nuclear power plant
“Officials with Kenya’s Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA) said the country is on track to start construction on its…
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Diets become more interesting across the world
A century ago, most humans had dull, monotonous diets. They consumed mostly grain. People ate less vegetables than today, and…
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Beef production consumes less land, emits less greenhouse gases than predicted
Some environmental activists want to curb beef consumption, saying that “the cattle we raise cause about as much greenhouse pollution…
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Biden-Harris Admin Has So Far Piled On Nearly $1,780,000,000,000 In Regulatory Costs On Americans
By Ireland Owens The Biden-Harris administration has put in nearly $1.78 trillion worth of rules and regulations as of October…
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More Americans Have No Job: Biden-Harris Admin Adds Nearly No Jobs In Last Report Before Election
By Owen Klinsky The number of Americans who are not employed rose in October. The U.S. added only 12,000 nonfarm payroll jobs…
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California voters to vote on making rent controls harsher; Proposition 33 would harm the supply of housing
In this election, California voters will decide whether or not to expand rent control in California. Around 93% of economists…
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‘Climate Extremism’: Biden-Harris Admin’s Own Data Undermines Its Fav Selling Point In Push To ‘Electrify Everything’
By Owen Klinsky The Biden-Harris administration released data on Oct. 17 suggesting its push to electrify everything will ratchet up…
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Which Kamala Harris Should Voters Believe?
By David Blackmon With the presidential race winding down to its final weeks, voters still have no real way of…
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Tim Walz has the lowest score of any governor on fiscal policy. Walz received an “F”
Recently, the nation’s 50 governors were rated based on their fiscal record, such as whether they made their state more…
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‘Make America Affordable Again’: Here’s How Much More Everyday Items Cost Than When You Voted Four Years Ago
By Owen Klinsky High inflation during President Joe Biden’s term will result in voters paying significantly higher prices as they…
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Biden-Harris Admin Threw Over $40 Billion At An Internet Buildout — Three Years Later Not A Single Project Is Underway
By Owen Klinsky President Joe Biden’s 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) earmarked tens of billions of taxpayer dollars for expanding broadband…
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Leaders Of Union That Threatened To Shut Down Economy Have History Of Splurging On Luxury Restaurants, Resorts
By Robert Schmad Leaders of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), who recently spent big money on upscale restaurants and swanky…
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Biden and Harris back destructive strike shutting down America’s ports and supply chain
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are supporting economic extortion, to help a powerful, high-paid union get a 77% pay raise,…
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Hurricane Helene Leaves Over 60 Dead, ‘A Lot Of Damage,’ Devastation Across Southeastern US
By John Oyewale Hurricane Helene left a wide path of destruction from Florida to Ohio in addition to dozens of…
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Kamala Harris legislation ‘would crush taxpayers’, increase national debt by unprecedented amount
“Two outrageous bills Kamala Harris sponsored would crush taxpayers,” notes the American Enterprise Institute. “As a U.S. senator, Vice President…
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‘Sign Of Impoverishment’: Part-Time Jobs Continue To Soar As US Economy Hemorrhages Full-Time Gigs
By Owen Klinsky The U.S. economy lost hundreds of thousands of full-time jobs in August in a shift that suggests…
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America’s Labor Market Is Already Showing Cracks. Kamala Harris Would Shatter It Into Pieces
By Alfredo Ortiz Friday’s jobs report reveals accelerating weakness in the American economy. Only 142,000 jobs were created last month, below expectations.…
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Labor Day barbecue costs are up by more than 25 percent since Biden became president
Labor Day barbecue costs are up by more than 25 percent since Joe Biden took office. The Bureau of Labor…
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Kamala Harris’ War On Food Prices Is An Assault On Freedom
By Bob Unamue Vice President Kamala Harris recently rolled out a proposal to tackle food prices, framing it as a…
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Inflation Reduction Act Is Taking America Down The Road To Ruin
By Bonner Cohen While serving as vice president, Kamala Harris played a key role in enacting legislation that increased the…
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Kamala Harris endorses trillions in tax hikes
“Here’s the $5 trillion list of tax hikes Kamala Harris just endorsed,” says Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax reform.…
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‘Recession May Have Already Begun’: Biden Admin Admits It Overestimated Employment By Nearly 1 Million Jobs
By Owen Klinsky The federal government overestimated the number of jobs in the U.S. economy by 818,000 between April 2023…
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Two Years On, The IRA Is Exactly What Its Critics Said It Would Become
By David Blackmon In a recent interview, World Energy Council Secretary General Angela Wilkinson told me that one of the main impediments to…
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Kamala Harris’s Stale Excuse For Policy Proposals: Price Controls, Which Always Failed In The Past
By J.D. Foster When leftists run out of alternative ideas, they dip into the stupid bucket to come up with…
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Harris’ Price Gouging Plan Could Be Campaign Stunt, Or A Slide Toward Venezuelan-Style Socialism
By James Pinkerton The best thing that can be said about Vice President Kamala Harris’ price-control gouging plan is that it could be…
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‘Catastrophic’: Top Grid Official Sounds The Alarm On Biden’s Sweeping Power Plant Rules
By Nick Pope Mark Christie, a top power grid regulator, is deeply concerned that the Biden administration’s aggressive power plant…
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Kamala Harris backs price controls that would lead to food shortages rather than fixing the inflation she helped cause
In the 1970s, Kamala Harris’s father, a Marxist economist, advised Jamaica’s government to adopt price controls for food. The result…
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Exempting tip income from taxes would spike the budget deficit and be inequitable; Harris and Trump are wrong to support it
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump want to exempt tips from income taxes — even though everyone else who doesn’t earn…
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$2.1 Trillion ‘Hidden Tax’: Cost Of Federal Regulations Hit Record High In 2023, Report Says
By Owen Klinsky Federal regulations added record-breaking costs of $2.1 trillion for the average American in 2023, according to a…
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