In 2022, Mexico’s politicians banned vaping products, hailing it as a public health victory. In practice, it did the opposite — pushing millions into an unregulated black market now controlled by powerful cartels. By outlawing a less harmful alternative to traditional cigarettes, the government handed criminals a new revenue stream and empowered corrupt police to […]
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“Acouple employees left for the rest of the day. They were pretty rattled.” Those were the words of multi-restaurant owner and Georgetown Events Hospitality Group president Bo Blair, in a Washington Post report by Tim Carman, Warren Rojas, and Maria Luisa Paul. Blair was referencing the arrival of ICE agents at various restaurants in town, including at
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He may still turn things around, but it’s a shame about President Trump and the economy. All he had to do was nothing, and what they refer to as “the economy” would be soaring now. Of course, Trump wouldn’t be president if he had it within him to do nothing. Which is why every president
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“He was just the waiter.” That’s what one of the owners of legendary New York steakhouse Peter Luger said about Wolfgang Zwiener. “All” he’d done over the decades was wait tables at Luger’s, and this ordinary former employee was in the process of opening his own, eponymous steakhouse to compete not just with Luger’s,
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“The greatest fever of all was aspiration, a belief in the sheer possibility to remake a life.” That’s what Evan Osnos wrote in Age of Ambition, his remarkable 2014 book about life in emerging China. Osnos reported that as of 2014 the Chinese were second only to Americans when it came to the purchase of
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Kamala Harris has been short on ideas recently on how she would govern differently than President Biden. Here’s a suggestion: promise to cut off Biden’s antitrust attack dogs. Google is currently awaiting penalty from Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ), which alleges the company operates as a monopoly in digital advertising, causing consumer harm. The issue is
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The New York Times recently reported on the latest calls for more government regulation—even on an international scale—over the field of artificial intelligence due to perceived risks. Such commentary has seemingly become ubiquitous both in the media and from policymakers in D.C. who, while well-intentioned, seem to owe reflection to the broader picture of why developing
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Marks came to mind while reading a front page Wall Street Journal story in response to Friday’s employment report. It read along the lines of “Soft Hiring Will Tee Up Fed Rate Cuts.”
Why On Earth Would Soft Hiring ‘Tee Up Fed Rate Cuts’? Read More »
Commenting on Twitter recently, Elon Musk wrote that inflation “is caused by the Federal government spending more than it earns, because they just print more money to make up the difference.”
Elon Musk’s Explanation of Inflation Is Sadly Contradictory Read More »
Pundits on the right and editorial boards have rightly made sport of Kamala Harris’s calls for price controls. They don’t work. Settled science.
How Did Conservatives Get the Idea That Price Controls Whip Inflation? Read More »
