Economics

NYT Encourages Women to Blame their Husbands for COVID-19 Struggles 0
- Economics
- August 4, 2020
“I want my mommy!” is the standard cry of small children everywhere. However, during the recent COVID-19 crisis, it’s become a feminist issue. That seems to be the conclusion of an article in the New York Times titled “They Go to Mommy First: How the pandemic is disproportionately disrupting mothers’ careers.” The logic goes like this: Kids
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Hugo Chavez’s Spirit is Alive in 2020 America 0
- Economics
- August 4, 2020
Venezuela has the world’s highest murder rate because the police there don’t stop murder unless it helps politics. So long as homocide doesn’t threaten the power or wealth of the governing party, murders are largely unsolved and are often committed by the very police who should be preventing them. As Business Insider reports, in Venezuela
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Celebrities Who Said Goodbye to California 0
- Economics
- July 30, 2020
California dreaming? Nothing wrong with that. The Golden State has a lot to offer. California has the fifth largest economy in the world. The San Francisco Bay Area alone has a GDP of $535 billion and ranks 19th in the world in economic activity. The state boasts one of the largest agricultural industries on the
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Union Bosses Take Aim at Gigsters’ Jobs 0
- Economics
- July 22, 2020
It is an old, old story. When you push water down into the bathtub, some of it inevitably seeps out and wets the washroom floor. In the same way, raising taxes to inordinate levels means rich people inevitably leave. The actor Gerard Depardieu moved from France to Belgium. The tennis player Bjorn Borg emigrated from
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Distilleries Should Always Be Able to Make Hand Sanitizer 0
- Economics
- July 20, 2020
As states across the country issued lockdown orders in the face of COVID-19, one type of business was almost uniformly deemed essential: liquor stores. For those attempting to work, homeschool kids, and stay home 24/7 without killing anyone, the continued operation of liquor stores and the distilleries that supply them was deeply appreciated. But in
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Dismantling America Without a Replacement 0
- Economics
- July 8, 2020
Calls to dismantle this group or that institution have become the topic du jour in American politics. It started with police departments and the criminal justice system, then it spread to museums, and now one Democratic congresswoman is raising the bar on a logarithmic scale. In a Tuesday press conference devoted to discussing America’s alleged systemic racism, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-MN,
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