Over at ArsTechnica.com, Jon Brodkin has a fascinating discussion of the regulatory maze that confronts Comcast in its effort to consummate a $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable.
We’re told that the gap between the poor and the rich has widened. Many decry the “injustice” of income and wealth inequality. But is it actually a problem and are the proposed remedies truly just? What is a fair “distribution” of income and wealth? Is “equality” a valid concept?
The Department of Energy recently announced new energy efficiency regulations for commercial refrigerators, alleging the move would save American businesses billions of dollars.
As a rule, Americans do not envy the successful. Their attitude is: If you earned your success, then you deserve your income. This poses a problem for the people who want to take from successful Americans in order to fund the welfare state.
Attempting to rally public opinion against the proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, New York Times economist Paul Krugman has trotted out the usual array of fear-mongering antitrust platitudes.
In this new weekly podcast series, The Debt Dialogues, Don Watkins will be talking to a diverse range of guests about the welfare state crisis and what to do about it.
The biggest news out of the 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit was Ford’s announcement that it will be reinventing its F-150 pickup—the number-one-selling vehicle in the United States in 2013—with an all-aluminum body to replace its traditional steel body.
Most people have heard the phrase “chilling effect” in connection with free speech. The idea is that vague laws can cause people to stop speaking out of fear that they might say something that violates the law.
Not to leave you in suspense, the answer is: definitely not. But when I share with you a statistic I recently came across, you might be excused for thinking so.
