By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 29, 2024 In 2021 the richest 1% paid 45.8% of income taxes, up from 33.2% in 2001. President Biden is proposing a bevy of tax increases, and his State of the Union address included the familiar call for the wealthy to pay their “fair share.” He should examine the Internal Revenue Service...

Officials said Tuesday that the container ship that crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge issued a “mayday” just before the collision, allowing bridge operators to halt traffic and potentially save lives. Six people remained missing Tuesday afternoon…

By: Bjorn Lomborg – wsj.com – March 13, 2024 More than one million people die in traffic accidents globally each year. Overnight, governments could solve this entirely man-made problem by reducing speed limits everywhere to 3 miles an hour, but we’d laugh any politician who suggested it out of office. It would be absurd to focus solely on lives saved...

The left has a new goal: degrowth. We should “buy less stuff,” forgive debts, grow our own food, etc.

Gary Cohn, the vice chairman of IBM who also served as former President Trump’s top economic advisor, told CBS’s “Face The Nation” why consumers are correct to treat inflation as one of the most important issues. …

Praise for Bidenomics from some media sources might lead people to believe our economic situation has never been better. What most Americans are experiencing is far less rosy.

In fact, Americans haven’t spent this much of their money on food since the early 1990s.

In previous generations, Americans aspired to achieve a better standard of living than their parents. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the American dream consisted of “good jobs, a nice house, two children, and plenty of money.”

The Federal Reserve recently disclosed its preliminary income and expenses for 2023, revealing an unprecedented $114.3 billion in operational losses.

Last week, it was amusing/pathetic the way the White House explained away the decision not to have President Biden sit for the recent tradition of the Super Bowl interview with the host network.