Microchips in the Hand to Conduct Commerce: An Invitation to Totalitarianism?
A Wisconsin company has unveiled technology to conduct transactions with a microchip imbedded under the skin in a person's hand. ...
Economics
Electric Cars: Let the Free Market Decide
It is clear that few government leaders really believe in the power of the...
IMF Boss Threatens to Ditch U.S. for Communist China, Again
The chief of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, again threatened that the controversial...
Robots May Take 2/3 of Las Vegas Service Jobs
Two college professors from the University of Redlands, California, predict that over the next...
CBO Raises Its Deficit, Debt Forecasts in Latest Revision
The government has a spending problem. It's one problem that isn't even on the...
A License to Mow Lawns? Occupational Licensure and Liberty
Occupational licensure laws are inimical to liberty and artificially create monopolies and increase prices....
Trump: Opening of New Pennsylvania Coal Mine Is Due to “Less Regulation”
President Trump celebrated the opening of a new coal mine in Pennsylvania as an...
Ford CEO Suddenly Retires: Early Casualty of AV Revolution
The announced retirement of Ford’s CEO Mark Fields — his position to be taken...
Baltimore Mayor Vetoes Minimum-wage Bill After Doing “Research”
After doing “some research,” Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh changed her mind and her position...
Trump Strategist Bannon: Austrian Economics Too Theoretical. Really?!
Trump poltiical strategist Stephen Bannon has dismissed Austrian economics as not "real world." On...
Raiders’ Move to Vegas Latest Example of Sports Crony Capitalism
The Raiders are leaving Oakland because that city refused to give the billionaire owner...
Income Tax Filings Down, Income Tax Revenue Up
The IRS reports that individual income tax filings are down, while the revenue collected...
Restaurants Add “Labor Surcharge” to Tabs to Cover Minimum-wage Increases
Once again the price of economic ignorance will be borne mostly by those who...
Dodd-Frank Is a Big Problem for Small Business
Since the passage of Dodd-Frank in 2010, the percentage of loans to businesses of...
Federal Insurance Agency Backing Union Pensions Facing Crisis Itself
With union pension plans on the route to going broke and unions looking to...
Former Reagan Economic Advisor Warns: Debt Ceiling “Hard Stop” for Economy
Although forecasters are surely correct that the deficit spending that the country has been...
Trump’s 2018 Budget Won’t Touch Social Security, Medicare
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Fox News on Sunday that cuts in entitlement...
Mortgage Delinquencies Begin an Upward March
FHA delinquency rates increased to 9.02 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016, up...
Study: $15 Minimum Wage Would Force McDonald’s to Increase Prices 38 Percent
The Heritage Foundation's James Sherk blows up the Robin Hood assumptions of economists who...
It’s the Economic Confidence Index, Stupid
Bill Clinton led an upstart charge to the White House by effectively tapping into...