DOGE and Congress should look hard at reforming Social Security
The Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) is off to an honest begin in making preliminary cuts in federal waste and general price and—importantly—normalizing the fact that lowering authorities expenditures is a good factor. But when the DOGE is to stay as much as its avowed mission of constructing the bloated federal authorities even barely inexpensive, in some unspecified time in the future it should need to tackle the massive canine…
Case Alleging Race-Based Firing of White Male Manager Accused of Physical Misconduct by Black Female Employee Can Go Forward
From Thursday's resolution by Choose Clifton Corker (E.D. Tenn.) in Williams v. Alkermes, Inc.: Defendant Alkermes, Inc. is a big pharmaceutical firm with a principal workplace in Waltham, Massachusetts. Plaintiff Travis Williams labored as Defendant's District Gross sales Supervisor in Knoxville, Tennessee for about 13 years, promoting a drug generally known as Vivitrol. In March 2023, Plaintiff and different District Enterprise Leaders ("DBL") attended Defendant's nationwide gross sales workforce assembly…
Trump’s love-hate relationship with Big Tech
Apple announced on February 24 that it's going to spend and make investments greater than $500 billion within the U.S. over the subsequent 4 years. President Donald Trump took to social media to credit his administration for the announcement. With out his insurance policies, the president mentioned, Apple "would not be investing ten cents." Nevertheless, Trump's antitrust and commerce insurance policies could possibly be the very factor that stops different…
DOGE mass firing probationary federal workers won’t make government a meritocracy
Meritocracy or random firings? Over in DOGEland, issues are going nearly as you'd count on: more firings, this time on the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the place some 800 probationary staff (out of 13,000 whole staff) are being let go. The Social Safety Administration plans to slash its workforce by half. An workplace throughout the Division of Labor tasked with implementing equal employment alternative legal guidelines is reducing workers by…
Trump’s tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico are still a terrible idea
Throughout a cupboard assembly on Wednesday, President Donald Trump acknowledged that Individuals do not like excessive costs. "We now have to get the costs down," Trump told reporters. "The costs of eggs and numerous different issues. Eggs are a catastrophe." A part of his administration's answer to the excessive value of eggs? Extra imports. As a part of a $1 billion plan to fight the chook flu, the U.S. Division…
How Trump Imperils Free Markets and Personal Liberties
He rattled off an inventory of Trump's offenses towards private liberties and free markets. The president, by circumventing Congress's constitutional spending authority, is making the treasury "primarily the non-public piggy financial institution of 1 man," which is "extraordinarily harmful from the libertarian standpoint." Trump's makes an attempt to chop federal spending and the workforce, although laudable, "are literally fairly piddling, and a few of them might even make the federal…
The Consumer Product Safety Commission doesn’t protect people by defaming businesses
Richard Trumka, a commissioner of the Shopper Product Security Fee (CPSC), announced in April 2024 that main retailers, together with Goal and Walmart, would cease promoting weighted child swaddles. Trumka had despatched letters to firms utilizing his official CPSC letterhead, falsely insinuating that the Fee had determined the product to be unsafe and related to Sudden Toddler Dying Syndrome. Dreamland Baby, a preferred producer of weighted toddler sleep merchandise, is…
Thank government spending cuts for falling interest rates
The ten-year rate of interest has fallen by half a proportion level prior to now month—from roughly 4.8 p.c to 4.3 p.c. A number of components decide rates of interest, together with inflation and financial development, however maybe essentially the most consequential is the availability of and demand for presidency bonds. If the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) continues at its present tempo—which in response to its website consists of…
Trump promised to lower prices. Will Congress help him deliver?
If President Donald Trump was elected with a particular mandate, it was to decrease costs. Ballot after ballot reveals that inflation is a high fear for Individuals. So the administration needs to be frightened that it is ticking again up. Additional, the president—who appears to suppose he can remedy all issues unilaterally with government department orders—will quickly uncover that to beat inflation, he'll want the assistance of Congress. Right this…
Why do many Americans have a positive view of socialism?
Socialism is in style! A Pew study stories that greater than a 3rd of American adults view it positively. How is that this attainable? Little has introduced extra distress—first within the Soviet Union, then in China, Cuba, Nicaragua, now Venezuela. One cause younger folks help socialism is as a result of their social media feeds present movies made by in style however economically illiterate folks. TikTok star Madeline Pendleton has…
