Economy
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Minimum wage hike in West Hollywood eliminating some jobs
Some jobs are disappearing in West Hollywood due to a minimum wage hike. As an economist notes: “Wage hikes kill…
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Biden Is Spreading Around Green Subsidies Like A Vegas Gambler
By David Blackmon A pair of stories published this week help document a rising phenomenon on the U.S. energy landscape:…
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Progressive environmentalists push polices that harm the environment
Many policies championed by progressive environmentalists are so stupid they harm the environment. The New Yorker unintentionally furnishes an example…
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Radical Chicago mayor backs policies that will shrink the amount of housing in his city
Cutting the supply of housing increases homelessness. But radical Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is backing policies that will shrink the…
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Rosy Jobs Predictions Come Crashing Back Down To Earth
By Alfredo Ortiz Today’s jobs report shows the labor market isn’t nearly as strong as the topline 3.6% unemployment rate…
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State Supreme Court Lets University of Delaware Keep Biden Records Hidden From the Public
By Katelynn Richardson The Delaware Supreme Court sided with the University of Delaware Thursday, denying the release of President Joe…
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‘Bidenomics’ Is A Bust
By Stephen Moore Word out of the White House is that President Joe Biden wants to tout his economic successes.…
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Due to inflation, Fourth of July cookouts cost a record amount, rising by 11 percent since 2022
Inflation is causing Fourth of July cookouts to cost a record amount in 2023, rising by 11% from 2022, reports…
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This Might Be The Biden Admin’s Most Ludicrous Idea Yet
By David Blackmon No aspect of the vaunted “energy transition” screams out the word “fantasy” quite so starkly as projections…
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Biden’s EV Diktat Will Cost Consumers And Threaten Jobs
By Linda McMahon The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced aggressive C02 mandates, with the expressed goal of 67% of…
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Biden Labor Department Announces Massive Revision To Wage Data, Revealing Big Drop in Wages
By Jason Cohen The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revised a wage growth estimate by a massive…
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Conservative World Fractures Over McCarthy’s Debt Limit Deal
By Arjun Singh Fiscally conservative non-profit groups, who have long been the loudest advocates for limiting federal spending in Washington,…
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Plastic recycling mandates harm the environment and possibly human health
Progressive government officials are mandating more recycling of plastics. But recycling of plastics “could be releasing huge quantities of microplastics,”…
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Supreme Court rules deserts are no longer wetlands, even if the EPA says they are wetlands
Prior to this week, the definition of “wetland” under the Clean Water Act was so broad (in the eyes of…
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Let’s Ditch The Masks And Make These Common-Sense COVID Changes Permanent, Instead
By Brooklyn Roberts The federal government quietly put an end to its Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19 earlier this…
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Debt crisis confronts much of the world as China calls in loans, and massive hidden debts are revealed
Fortune Magazine writes about the coming debt crisis, and how in “a lot of the world, the clock has hit…
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New Biden Admin Mandate Will Raise Costs On Mobile Homeowners For ‘Zero’ Climate Benefit, Experts Say
By John Hugh DeMastri The Biden administration’s upcoming rules requiring stricter energy efficiency standards for mobile homes will raise costs…
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If You Liked The 2008 Financial Crisis, You’re Going To Love Biden’s New Mortgage Rule
By David McGarry Borrowers pay interest and fees in large part to compensate the risks incurred by financial institutions during…
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Biden’s Radical Labor Nominee Wants To Raise Your Taxes
By Grover Norquist President Joe Biden nominated an extraordinarily radical candidate for U.S. Secretary of Labor who wants to wield…
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New York’s Solution To Stabilizing Its Ailing Grid? Chase People Out Of State
By Isaac Orr Several blue states are deploying a bold new strategy to keep their electricity grids solvent as they…
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South African power blackouts to expand
South Africans are already routinely going without power for many hours a day. Soon, things will get worse. The struggling…
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Legalizing kidney sales would end America’s lethal kidney shortage
In a recent article in Regulation, economist Frank McCormick and medical school professor Philip Held describe how America could solve…
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Biden can’t invoke 14th Amendment to keep spending money
If Congress doesn’t lift the national debt limit — because President Biden won’t agree to Republican demands to reduce the…
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New IRS Numbers Are In And They Look Bad For Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul And J.B. Pritzker
By Andrew Wilford The pandemic brought with it a great deal of changes. In many cases, this included changes in…
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Federal spending rises 40 percent since 2019
Federal spending has risen 40 percent since 2019 — much faster than the economy, resulting in skyrocketing national debt. “What…
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Job satisfaction rises to 36 year high
People may not be happy about their financial situation, or the state of the world, but they are happier about…
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New EPA Rules Will Force Most of America’s Coal and Gas Plants to Shut Down, Experts Say
“The Biden administration is imposing near-impossible emission standards on coal and gas plants that force them to adopt the use…
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Is The US Economy About To Collapse?
By Gage Klipper The US banking system is currently facing a twin set of problems. Both could spell doom for…
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Food stamps make recipients fatter and less healthy, according to studies
It’s not clear why, but receiving food stamps appears to make recipients less healthy and more obese. If there are…
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Gavin Newsom’s Carbon-Neutral Grid Plan Looks To Be Going The Way Of The Bullet Train To Nowhere
By Kerry Jackson California’s planned transition to a carbon-neutral electricity grid by 2045 relies heavily on offshore wind power. It…
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Who Does Biden’s Climate Alarmism Benefit? Certainly Not Our National Security
By George Landrith America must take a good look at its energy policies because energy not only fuels our economy,…
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Blue States Lost Billions In Revenue As Americans Fled To Texas And Florida
By Laurel Duggan Democrat-led states including California and New York hemorrhaged residents to red states like Florida and Texas and…
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‘Serious Danger’: Elon Musk Predicts Banking Crisis After Real Estate ‘Anvil’ Drops
By Harold Hutchison Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during part of an interview that aired Tuesday that the banking system…
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A Massive Obstacle Stands Between Global Elites And Their Green Energy Utopia
By David Blackmon In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published last week, S&P Global Vice Chairman and noted author Daniel…
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Inflation Reduction Act will increase national debt and inflation
The Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by Joe Biden will cost three times as much as supporters claimed, notes…
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The Federal Gov’t Thinks It’s Spending Monopoly Money
By James Anthony As Mark Twain once observed, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s…
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