Economics

January 20th, 2023
We recently looked at a new Federal Reserve Bank analysis that found that virtually all of the current labor shortage could be explained by a pandemic-induced increase in baby boomer retirements.
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January 11th, 2023
For years, the only supermarket serving the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota was run-down and a threat to public health. Inspectors from the Indian Health Service repeatedly cited its distant corporate owners for food safety violations, such as mixing rotten hamburger with fresh meat and repackaging it for sale. So leaders of […]
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January 5th, 2023
The Wall Street Journal quotes Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), “We’re not negotiating, we’re giving them [i.e., Republicans] nothing.
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December 23rd, 2022
Dec. 20—House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy promised to enforce the conservatives’ demands if elected speaker in the 118th Congress.
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December 16th, 2022
Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. …
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December 13th, 2022
The United States Declaration of Independence was not yet six months old when George Washington and his Continental Army found themselves crossing the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey in late December.
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December 2nd, 2022
First, you would surrender our prior energy independence… Second, print trillions of dollars in the new currency as the end of the lockdown,…
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November 30th, 2022
Last week’s protests at an iPhone plant affirm that the company’s compromised approach to China is risky and unsustainable.
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November 30th, 2022
Progressive policymakers promote the idea that America is on the verge of a green revolution that will eliminate hydrocarbon use within the near future—but in reality, this is not possible.
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November 30th, 2022
“Listen to the science” has become a catchphrase when discussing the future of world energy. Advocates of rapidly replacing hydrocarbons…
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