As the US economy slowly implodes, the government causing the implosion is not done with its economic destruction. The Federal Reserve remains the engine of inflation, while tariffs and other…
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Krit Chanwong The federal government uses the Federal Highway Trust Fund to administer funding to highways and mass transit. Unfortunately, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the trust fund will…
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David J. Bier New US Census Bureau statistics show that, despite a significant increase in immigration during President Biden’s term in office, the immigrant share of the US population grew…
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The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier who fought—Ulysses Grant—knew better, exposing the…
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The Lane Kiffin saga has dominated sports headlines this past week, highlighting the sea changes that have come over college sports—an especially college football—in the past decade. Much of this…
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GAO: Obamacare Routinely Subsidizes Insurers for Covering Ineligible and Fictitious Applicants
Michael F. Cannon The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report on how careless Obamacare is with your money—for more than a decade, with no improvement. I don’t ……
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Government transit in the US is going from bad to worse. Systems are breaking down and law-abiding riders face dangers of assault, robbery, and murder. The current “solution”? Spend even…
Scott Lincicome This year, a large amount of virtual ink has been devoted to US tariff policy—and for good reason. Yet, most of this discussion has focused on the big…
Clark Neily Eighty-three people are dead. So far this fall, US military forces have struck 22 suspected drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean, killing dozens in what the Trump administration claims…
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss military escalation with Venezuela, more troubling jobs data, and how college football offers an example of how financialization,…