Politicians Need To Get Serious About Retaining Foreign Graduates
Throughout a podcast look last week, former President Donald Trump made an uncharacteristic argument. "What I'll do, is you graduate from a university, I feel it is best to get routinely, as a part of your diploma, a inexperienced card to have the ability to keep on this nation," he stated, adding that he would even embrace graduates of junior faculties. A Trump marketing campaign spokesperson rapidly tempered that proposal,…
Trump Blames Biden for Never Removing the Tariffs Trump Imposed
President Joe Biden had greater than three years to roll again former President Donald Trump's tariffs which might be driving up costs for shoppers and companies. He didn't, despite the fact that Biden had made clear over the last marketing campaign that he knew Individuals had been bearing the price of these commerce insurance policies. As a substitute, Biden selected to pander to unionized employees within the Rust Belt and…
Divided Over Purdue Pharma Deal, SCOTUS Unites in Accepting a Dubious OxyContin Narrative
After OxyContin producer Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter 11 chapter in 2019, members of the Sackler household, which managed the corporate, organized a decision that included private safety from civil legal responsibility for contributing to opioid-related deaths. That defend was a part of a mass settlement that promised myriad litigants a complete of $6 billion. The Supreme Court docket narrowly rejected that deal in the present day. "The chapter code…
John Stossel Interviews Libertarian Presidential Nominee Chase Oliver
Former President Donald Trump spoke on the Libertarian Get together Conference, asking delegates to vote for him, promising, "I'll put a libertarian in my Cupboard!" However Libertarians nominated Chase Oliver as an alternative. In contrast to most political candidates, Oliver discovered in regards to the world by working common jobs. "My first job was dishwasher," he tells me. "However then I did each job you possibly can do….I moved into…
N.J. Businessman Indicted for ‘Sopranos’-Style Economic Development Racket
A strong New Jersey businessman has been accused of Mafia-like habits with a view to enrich himself and his associates on the taxpayer's dime. However is all of it that totally different from enterprise as standard? At a press convention this week, New Jersey Legal professional Common Matt Platkin announced a 13-count indictment, with expenses together with racketeering and extortion, in opposition to six defendants—mainly George Norcross III, whom the…
Federal Budget Deficit Forecast Jumps $400 Billion, Fueled by Student Debt Forgiveness
In 2024, the federal price range deficit is estimated to achieve practically $2 trillion, in line with new projections launched by the Congressional Price range Workplace (CBO) this week. In February, the company predicted that the deficit would solely be $1.58 trillion. Nevertheless, spending will increase have precipitated the projected deficit to extend by $400 billion, a staggering 27 % hike. In response to the CBO, 80 % of the…
Eating Doritos While Drowning in Debt
On this week's The Cause Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman lament the most recent dire forecast from the Congressional Funds Workplace (CBO) final week forecasting a $2 trillion funds deficit in 2024. 02:31—$2 trillion federal funds deficit 21:17— Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump on immigration 37:02—Weekly Listener Query 46:23—Revisiting Anthony Fauci and COVID-19 origins 55:18—This week's cultural suggestions Talked about on this podcast: "Federal…
‘Vast Majority’ of COVID Employee Retention Credit Claims Are Likely Scams
You possibly can add the Inside Income Service to the ranks of federal companies conceding that raining taxpayer cash on one and all to offset the unfavorable results of pandemic-era closures did not go in addition to meant. Not solely was a program meant to offset the price of paying staff throughout lockdowns and voluntary social-distancing vulnerable to being gamed, however the "overwhelming majority" of claims submitted to this system…
Magatte Wade on Africa, foreign aid, and free markets
Magatte Wade is creator of the memoir and manifesto The Heart of a Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty—and What That Means for Human Flourishing (Cheetah Press), during which she argues the answer to Africa's issues lies in "the cheetah generation" of younger Africans who embrace free markets, individualism, human rights, and transparency in authorities. Born in Senegal and now residing in Austin, Texas, Wade is director of…
Mass Deportations of Immigrants Destroy More Native-Born American Jobs than they Create
(NA) One of many commonplace rationales for deporting undocumented migrants is that it creates extra job alternatives for natives. If employers cannot rent migrants, they'll, presumably, rent extra native-born residents. In a recent article for the Peterson Institute of Worldwide Economics, my George Mason College colleague Michael Clemens—one of many world's main immigration economists—explains why this intuitive assumption is fake. In actuality, mass deportations destroy extra jobs than they create:…
