Brickbat: Caught a Big One
The town of Memphis, Tennessee, misplaced $773,000 in a phishing scam in 2022, however officers didn't disclose the loss till a neighborhood media outlet requested about it not too long ago. The town was making common funds to a neighborhood building firm. "Following a request from who they believed to be Zellner Building, they modified the account particulars and wired $773k to an account that was, certainly, not Zellner," metropolis…
Universal Basic Income Supporters Get Bad News From Research Study
The most important research into the real-world penalties of giving folks an additional $1,000 per thirty days, with no strings connected, has discovered that these people typically labored much less, earned much less, and engaged in additional leisure time actions. It is a end result that appears to undercut among the arguments for common fundamental earnings (UBI), which advocates say would assist lower- and middle-class People turn into extra productive.…
The 'Pro-Worker' GOP Is Anti-Worker
Members of the brand new proper wing of the Republican Social gathering have proclaimed themselves the champions of the working class. I'm positive they imply it, regardless of a lot of them being among the many elite of the elite. And since so many are attorneys—together with these like vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance who come from an elite Ivy League college—we are able to forgive them for failing to…
Libertarian Presidential Nominee Chase Oliver’s Vision for the Future
Now it is former President Donald Trump versus Vice President Kamala Harris. However there will probably be one other alternative in your poll: Chase Oliver. Each Trump and former Democrat-turned-independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the Libertarian Social gathering conference, asking for his or her nomination, however Oliver gained their votes. He is a 38-year-old political activist and businessman. Rolling Stone called him "essentially the most influential libertarian" as a…
Biden’s Big Government Solutions Dismiss Customer Welfare
The ostensible objective of antitrust coverage is to advertise wholesome competitors within the market, however antitrust enforcement has largely protected inefficient corporations from the specter of competitors and disadvantaged customers of the decrease costs they'd in any other case get pleasure from. Due to authorized students like Robert Bork, antitrust enforcement over the previous 4 many years has primarily targeted on essentially the most logical place—maximizing advantages for customers. However…
Mike Pompeo Is Selling a New Iran War to Republicans
Mike Pompeo has a hostile obsession with Iran. From his earliest days as CIA director in 2017, he advocated for a "leadership decapitation strategy" in opposition to Iran, reportedly telling his underlings to not fear whether or not that act of battle can be constitutional, as a result of "that is a query for the legal professionals." Pompeo additionally reportedly told associates that he "is not going to retire from…
Biden’s Poor Debate Performance Eclipsed Trump’s Flagrant Dishonesty
President Joe Biden's efficiency in his June 27 debate with Donald Trump was so dangerous that it in the end resulted in his withdrawal from the election. It was additionally so dangerous that it distracted consideration from his opponent's flagrant prevarications. However Trump's longstanding tendency to make stuff up, to the purpose that it's important to low cost virtually something he says by at the least 90 %, shouldn't be…
Have Republicans Abandoned Free Markets?
After the primary night time of the Republican Nationwide Conference, when Teamsters President Sean O'Brien illustrated that the Republican Get together could also be morphing into the social gathering of unionized working-class People, Motive requested conference attendees whether or not they believed that the Republican social gathering had given up on free markets. Watch now to listen to what they needed to say! Picture credit: Rod Lamkey—CNP/Newscom; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Name/Newscom;…
J.D. Vance Thinks FTC Chair Lina Khan Is Doing a ‘Pretty Good Job’
With former President Donald Trump's decide of Ohio Rep. J.D. Vance as his 2024 working mate, we're possible darkish days on the Federal Commerce Fee (FTC). Below President Joe Biden, the FTC—headed by Lina Khan—has aggressively pursued an anti-innovation, anti-tech, anti-big enterprise, and anti-consumer agenda. Khan and her allies within the Biden administration assume the buyer welfare commonplace that has guided antitrust legislation for many years must go. Fairly than…
Trump Promises To Get Rid of Bad Regulations. Can He Deliver?
This week, former President Donald Trump will formally turn out to be the Republican nominee. Quickly he's more likely to once more be president, based on essentially the most correct predictions, which come from individuals who put their cash the place their mouths are—individuals who bet. They at the moment give Trump a 67 % likelihood of successful. President Joe Biden's probabilities have fallen under 20 %. That is excellent…
