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…
Fed Judge Blocks Anheuser-Busch From Advertising a MillerCoors Ingredient
Article from Reason by Baylen Linnekin. One of the best things about the otherwise tedious Super Bowl broadcast earlier this year was the debut of a mildly amusing, medieval-themed Bud…
Economists Expose an Unknown Downfall of Socialism
Article from Town Hall by Timothy Meads. In what was probably the most enjoyable book I’ve read on the subject, two economists drink their way through the “unfree world” to…
New Tariffs Could Crush The Beer Industry
Article from Reason by Eric Boehm. Donald Trump’s plan to slap a 10 percent tariff on all aluminum imports has beer makers belching their outrage. “President Trump’s announcement today that…
