Economics

Does Insurance Cover Rioting and Looting Damage?0
- Economics
- September 4, 2020
Since the death of George Floyd in late May, violent riots and looting have broken out in many major cities, eventually overshadowing peaceful protests and calls for criminal justice reform. From Portland to Chicago to Kenosha, rioters have smashed windows, lit fires, attacked government properties, assaulted people in the streets, and looted storefronts. In Minneapolis
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France Rules Out Lockdown Despite Surge in COVID Cases 0
- Economics
- August 26, 2020
The long summer of 2020 just keeps getting longer, but some world leaders are showing a reluctance to keep marching to the drumbeat of the all-consuming war on COVID-19. Public health officials in France last week announced the nation experienced 3,776 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, the largest daily total it had seen in three
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A Closer Look at the States that Stayed Open 0
- Economics
- August 25, 2020
I’m sure we all remember that fateful month of March. One after another states began to issue lockdown orders, closing businesses, restricting travel, and ordering people to stay home. That was the month when the United States went from viewing COVID-19 as a minimal threat to issuing some of the most draconian lockdown measures in
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Google’s Disruption of Higher Ed Is Just What Students Need 0
- Economics
- August 25, 2020
My wife and I recently hired a financial advisor who is helping us map out our financial future. He seemed stunned that we didn’t want to take advantage of the U.S. tax code’s 529 provision, which helps parents save for their children’s education. “You have three kids,” he said. “Odds are at least one will
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When Reparations for Slavery Become Just Another Welfare Program 0
- Economics
- August 21, 2020
The idea that former slaves and their descendants ought to receive reparations for the wrongs committed against them is not new. Having grasped the fact that slavery is nothing less than kidnapping and theft committed against the enslaved, abolitionists long advocated for some form of redress for freed slaves. The most famous early attempt to
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The Most Violent Demonstration Ever to Occur at the White House 0
- Economics
- August 21, 2020
After months of violent demonstrations – especially in New York, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Portland – many Americans might not want to learn of yet another. This one, however, dates back long before any living person’s memory and ranks as the worst ever on the grounds of the White House in Washington. The issue, believe it or not, was a
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