Economics

Five of Seattle Protesters’ Most Ridiculous Demands 0
- Economics
- June 11, 2020
Following a week of protests and riots in Seattle, government authorities abandoned the police’s East Precinct headquarters and left protestors to establish the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.” What the police left behind of their barricades were quickly repurposed to mark out the protestors new territory, complete with a sign welcoming visitors to “Free Capitol Hill.”
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Minneapolis’ Business Exodus May Have Just Begun 0
- Economics
- June 11, 2020
Since 1987, Kris Wyrobek has owned and operated 7-Sigma Inc., a manufacturing company on 26th Ave. in south Minneapolis that employs some 50 people. Wyrobek says that after helplessly watching his plant burn during last month’s riots, he has no plans of sticking around. “The fire engine was just sitting there, but they wouldn’t do
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Federal Subsidization of Riots is a Terrible Idea 0
- Economics
- June 10, 2020
The city of Minneapolis estimates that nearly 1,000 commercial buildings were damaged during riots that followed George Floyd’s death at the hands of city police on May 25, causing at least $55 million in damage. City officials and congressional representatives are calling on the federal government to provide aid to the city, either through FEMA
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The Environmentalist’s Dream Came True With COVID 0
- Economics
- June 9, 2020
Have you recently heard anything about the major existential threat to our lives? I don’t mean the exaggerated virality of the virus currently wreaking havoc with our globalized societies, but the endlessly dangerous impact of climate change? Of rising sea levels and volatile weather leading to crop failures and mass starvation and collapse of precious
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Greed, Not COVID-19, Devastated New York City’s Budget 0
- Economics
- June 4, 2020
Romina Boccia, the director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation, recently warned some states and cities intend to use COVID-19 aid to bailout their fiscally irresponsible policies. Boccia specifically called out New York City, which has already received billions of dollars of aid to combat COVID-19. “What
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Why Socialists Love the Phrase ‘It’s Not Real Socialism’0
- Economics
- June 1, 2020
The main reason that the socialists have had the staying power that has, luckily, eluded the Nazis is the argument that these self-acclaimed socialist regimes were “not real socialism.” One influential intellectual responsible for popularizing this argument is philosopher Noam Chomsky, who postulates that socialist regimes, the USSR specifically, merely pretended to be socialist to
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