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Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time
President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to "pay your fair share" of taxes. It turns out he's right that some companies really are getting away scot-free from paying taxes. But it isn't Big…
Biden’s OTHER Immigration Calamity
Recent polling shows President Joe Biden's open-border immigration policy is now ranked as the No. 1 or 2 problem facing America — in part because of the havoc in our large cities where the millions of migrants are now…
Wendy’s Won’t Use Dynamic Pricing – But Should They?
"The discount shelf in your lower supermarket is emblematic of the same process as well, albeit in the opposite direction. Variable pricing permits improved resource allocations, including of labor, by responding to…
Why the Meiji Restoration Was Pivotal for Japan
Isolation, feudalism, and military dictatorship governed the Asian nation of Japan from 1603 until 1868. Known as the period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, its dissolution was hastened by the stunning appearance of Commodore…
Breaking down MMT’s Guaranteed Jobs Scheme for Fighting Inflation
For “Ask an Economist” this week, I have a question from John O. about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). I’ve purposefully avoided MMT in the past for a few reasons. First, because it appears to be under-theorized. In other…
Is Inflation on the Rise Again?
"The Fed should be looking ahead and adjusting monetary policy in light of its forecasts. Instead, its eyes are fixed on the rear-view mirror." ~William J. Luther
How Radical Leftist Activist Groups Have Captured the British Government
Fourteen years in government and what have the British Conservative Party got to show for it? The highest tax burden since World War II, radical anti-freedom green policies, and critical race and gender theory being applied…
Congress Overspends, but the Fed Inflates
"At most, large deficits impelled the Fed to support the market for government debt by purchasing more debt than it should have. The central bank, not the fiscal authorities, is the residual determiner of aggregate…
Schools With “Radical Politics” Must Be Tolerated in a Free Society
There is a lot of concern these days about what type of curriculum is—or is not—being taught to schoolchildren. “Curriculum transparency” has become a key talking point, as parents seek to know what subject matter their…
Michigan Takes a U-Turn Back to the Rust Belt
No state in modern times has transitioned from a worker freedom state to one that forces workers to join a union and pay dues to labor bosses. All the momentum across the country in the last two decades has been in the…
