America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve has become a political piggybank
There have bene a number of references to the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in recent weeks. The most recent was Joe Biden’s declaration that 30 million barrels of SPR…
Nonprofits awash in Russian money
A time-honored way for potentates, corporate baddies, and other unsavory types to show they are really good people who love art, music, education, health, welfare, etc., is for them write…
The woke tapes
There’s been a lot of debate about “wokeness” in the country, but not enough real examples of what this catch-all term for things some people don’t like really does…let alone…
Seattle soda tax encourages switch to beer
Taxes can change behavior. Economists have known this for decades, but politicians…not so much. An example of how taxes can change behavior comes from Seattle, where local pols decided to…
The extent of stimulus theft gets bigger by the day
The $6 trillion worth of federal stimulus money that washed through the economy in the pandemic’s wake created an obvious and enduring problem: how to make sure it didn’t end…
Biden DoJ and FBI go hunting for inflation criminals
The depth of the panic inside the Biden White House over rising prices continues to manifest itself in new and disturbing ways. The most recent? The Department of Justice and…
Cleaning up the tax code to foster prosperity
One item not on the Biden administration’s economic agenda is tax reform. That’s no surprise, considering Team Biden’s default position has been to raise taxes, a lot, without a thought…
Real wages, inflation, and congressional mid-terms
There’s one clear thing we know about inflation and the Biden administration: they are worried about it. Not just because inflation undermines paychecks and savings. It has a nasty tendency…
The coming tax season “disaster”
The IRS is in big trouble and taxpayers may be the ones who suffer the consequences this tax filing season. The mammoth backlog of unprocessed returns from the previous year,…
The electric grid is getting more unreliable
Maybe you’ve noticed it: the lights flicker, even on days when there’s a light breeze or sunny skies (nevermind the days when big storms roll through). What gives? Turns out,…
