No, Biden's New Rail Crew Mandate Doesn't Make 'Common Sense'
Requiring two-person crews on freight trains wouldn't have prevented the East Palestine disaster. It's simply a giveaway to Biden's labor union allies.
Requiring two-person crews on freight trains wouldn't have prevented the East Palestine disaster. It's simply a giveaway to Biden's labor union allies.
Plus: A listener asks if Trump or Biden have done anything to secure the blessings of liberty.
The Turkish opposition ran circles around President Recep Tayyib Erdogan's party in local elections. It could be the beginning of the end of his 20-year reign.
Government officials seek to shape the economy to the liking of politicians.
Over 1,500 types of wine are protected by European Union regulations.
Jackson County, Missouri, residents should not be billed for the undertakings of private businesses.
Hiking wages through law is a crowd-pleaser, but it kills employment unless you’re a robot.
The cuts are part of the president's broader strategy to achieve fiscal balance at any cost.
A 10 percent tariff on all imports would trigger more inflation at the grocery store, particularly for products such as fresh fruit and coffee.
The question of how best to measure inflation has no single and straightforward answer, but most people know that the president's economic claims aren't true.
The Key Bridge collapse highlighted the valuable contributions of immigrant workers, many of whom take on foreseeable—and, in this case, unforeseeable—risks.
While the state senate's bill would cap tax credits at 2.3 percent of the state's budget, any production filming at a big enough studio would be exempt.
Thanks to "squatters' rights" laws, evicting a squatter can be so expensive and cumbersome that some people simply walk away from their homes.
Neither presidential candidate is willing to back the reforms necessary to close the gap between revenue and benefits.
It only took a generation to go from ration cards to exporting electronics.
Plus: A listener asks about the absurdity of Social Security entitlements.
If you fail to see a problem with Apple's actions, you may not be an overzealous government lawyer.
Economist Friedrich Hayek inspired an early foray into electronic cash.
Odysseus became the first private spacecraft to have a successful soft moon landing—kind of.
Three years after the state legalized recreational marijuana, unauthorized weed shops outnumber licensed dispensaries by 23 to 1.
Johnson could lose the speakership for the same reasons Kevin McCarthy lost it just five months ago. Who will be next?
An obvious, tepid reform was greeted with shrill partisan screeching.
Protests in the country come from an understandable place. But their demands are divorced from certain unfortunate economic realities.
The growing debt will "slow economic growth, drive up interest payments," and "heighten the risk of a fiscal crisis," the CBO warns.
at least when the license requires 6000 hours of training on matters far removed from his expertise.
Economic nationalists are claiming the deal endangers "national security" to convince Americans that a good deal for investors, employees, and the U.S. economy will somehow make America less secure. That's nonsense.
While drafted with good intentions, the rule prioritizes electric vehicles that run on batteries, even as hybrids see strong sales growth.
And the real kicker is that Intel was probably going to create those jobs without taxpayers funding anything.
Unilever’s split from its ice cream division shows market share and market power are very different concepts.
How Vietnam, Watergate, and stagflation supercharged the libertarian movement.
Support for industrial policy and protectionism are supposed to help the working class. Instead, these ideas elevate the already privileged.
In the name of safety, politicians did many things that diminished our lives—without making us safer.
Just two weeks after the law went into effect, Seattleites had to contend with $26 coffees and $32 sandwiches.
Both companies consented to the deal. Why should they have to get permission from the president to do business?
The president wants to raise the rate from 21 percent to 28 percent, despite it being well-established that this is the most economically-destructive method to raise government funds.
The eroding value of the dollar inflicts pain, and Americans resent politicians who cause it.
New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.
The judicially approved Brookline ban reflects a broader trend among progressives who should know better.
If you can't even get close to balancing the budget when unemployment is low, tax revenues are near record highs, and the economy is booming, when can you do it?
Plus: Chinese border-crossers, gender transitions for kids, the politics of raw milk, and more...
Much-desired flexibility for gig workers is in jeopardy.
Are you in compliance with the Corporate Transparency Act? Have you even heard of it?
Leading immigration economist Michael Clemens explains why.
"We are poor because we don't let our entrepreneurs work," says the director of the Center for African Prosperity at the Atlas Network.
New immigration pathways are letting private citizens welcome refugees and other migrants—and getting the government out of the way.
The new reporting rules will force companies to disclose whether they are prioritizing climate change concerns.