Economics

New York State Budget Director on the ‘Fundamental Ignorance’ That Killed the Amazon Deal 0
- Economics
- February 26, 2019
New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica is not pleased his state is missing out on Amazon’s second headquarters. In an open letter that ran on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s page, Mujica explained what the loss would mean to the state: As just about everyone in this state, if not the country, knows by now, Amazon
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Canada’s Universal Child Care Program Suggests Elizabeth Warren’s Plan Would Be Disastrous for Children 0
- Economics
- February 22, 2019
The state does such a stellar job of nurturing and educating children from preschool through high school, we should expand its role from birth onward. That’s the new proposition unveiled this week by US Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. On Tuesday, the Democratic presidential candidate outlined a vast federal program of free and subsidized child
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Why the Minimum Wage Shouldn’t Be a Family Wage 0
- Economics
- February 21, 2019
Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and one that seems to a have particular potent effect on politicians. Consider, for example, a recent tweet by Massachusetts’s senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren. Last Saturday she said: Back when I was a kid, a minimum-wage job could support a family of three. Today, a full-time minimum-wage
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Child Deaths Fall Across the World, No Thanks to Marxism 0
- Economics
- February 19, 2019
It has never been a safer world in which to be a child. According to the UN, in 1950, most of the world had a child death rate (by age 5) of over 20%, while only a few countries, such as the United States, Cuba, Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand, had child death rates
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Marx and Lincoln: Comrades in the Making?0
- Economics
- February 18, 2019
Since Abraham Lincoln is a towering figure in American history, Democrats and Republicans alike seek to cast the man in their own image to support their respective agendas. Both sides might want to be careful with such a move. In reality, Lincoln was far more radical than those on the Left or Right would be comfortable
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Americans Continue to Flee to These Low-Tax States 0
- Economics
- February 15, 2019
According to the most recent Census Bureau data on state-to-state migration flows, 523,000 people moved to California from other states. But at the same time, more than 661,000 Californians moved to other states. That is, on net, nearly 138,000 more people left California than moved into it from elsewhere in the US. Yet, California isn’t the worst
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