The bill would penalize companies for price gouging during times of war, public health emergencies, or natural disasters—which would have encompassed all of the last two years.
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The Department of Labor and Sen. Elizabeth Warren have strong opinions about Fidelity’s new 401K option
Student debt cancellation would disproportionately benefit college degree holders with higher earnings.
Wealth tax proponents claim only super rich people would be affected. But to raise the revenue Warren, Sanders, and Biden want, they'd have to tax the "working rich"—doctors, lawyers, and other hardworking high earners.
The Massachusetts senator also came out in favor of creating a central bank digital currency
Cryptocurrencies are not the threat to U.S. financial power the elites want to present.
A windfall profit tax on oil companies didn't work in the 1970s and it won't work today.
Crypto's transcendence of national borders is a feature, not a bug.
Elizabeth Warren's bizarre theories about corporate greed driving inflation have made their way into federal law enforcement, it seems.
"Greed is constant. If it's greed, how do we explain prices falling?"
The Massachusetts senator advocated breaking up major grocery retailers with antitrust laws.
Musk responded that he will pay more in taxes this year than any other American in history.
Warren's claim that oil companies are jacking up prices to turn a bigger profit doesn't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.
The cryptocurrency is spurring use of renewable energy even as it undermines existing economic, political, and cultural elites.
And it just might reduce the tax burden for the well-off in the short term.
Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, and co. insist that the IRS needs to know about $600 bank accounts.
The Keeping Renters Safe Act would give bureaucrats a blank check to ban evictions during future outbreaks.
The Reason senior editor argues that attempts to break up tech giants and rein in social media are based on flawed arguments.
Amazon's customers are apparently unable to judge the veracity of COVID-related information for themselves.
Voters who support Gov. Gavin Newsom can still select a successor. That’s left out of a campaign commercial airing during the Olympics.
Bezos pitched in by creating an online marketplace of cheap consumer goods that people can get delivered to their homes in two days flat.
A simplified tax code is the answer, not giving the IRS more funding.
But it would triple the IRS budget and give the tax cops a lot more power to make life miserable for individuals and businesses.
Threatening government action to stop "snotty tweets" is not a good look.
She said the quiet part out loud.
And it has failed in almost every country where it's been tried.
The Massachusetts senator is the latest Democrat to use the pandemic to justify a policy she already wanted.
This is probably not what Lyndon B. Johnson had in mind.
The last thing this game-inspired, meme-powered finance fight needs is federal meddling.
Both Hawley's "national conservatism" and similar ideas prevalent in many quarters on the left threaten free speech and liberty more generally.
His angry insistence that "I'm the President of the United States!" is reminiscent of Joffrey's famous similar statement: "I am the King!"
Thank god for the First Amendment and the feuds among powerful politicians and platforms that will keep free speech alive.
In two separate op-eds yesterday, the senators pitch central planning as the best response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Power-seeking public officials thrive on our fear.
Warren’s supporters were so enamored with her righteousness that they struggled to see her obvious flaws.
The Massachusetts senator failed to expand her appeal beyond a core group of highly educated upper-middle-class voters.
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The pundits and newspapers pushed Warren, Klobuchar, and Buttigieg, but Super Tuesday voters just wanted boring old Biden and Bernie.
"Compliments on a woman's appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay."
Biden's win in South Carolina gives his campaign new life, increases the likelihood of a brokered convention in Milwaukee, and ends Tom Steyer's campaign.
Shifting the process from the Justice Department to the White House can help eliminate bureaucracy and meddling from prosecutors.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders correctly diagnose the problem, but fail to provide an adequate solution.
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This was supposed to be the electable alternative?
"Stop and frisk" policies are brought into the crosshairs right away.
Federal outlays per person have increased $1,441 since 2016, to a grand total of $14,652 per person.
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