Musk Abandons Deal to Buy Twitter; Company Says It Will Sue
(AP) Elon Musk announced Friday that he will abandon his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy Twitter after the company failed to provide enough...
Man with Bat Killed While Confronting Windshield Cleaners
(AP) A man was shot and killed after swinging a baseball bat during a confrontation with people who were cleaning windshields for cash at...
Dems Want to Tax High Earners to Protect Medicare Solvency
(AP) Senate Democrats want to boost taxes on some high earners and use the money to extend the solvency of Medicare, the latest step...
The Amtrak Abomination
(Robert E. Wright, American Institute for Economic Research) The same policymakers who wanted to shut down the American economy for an indefinite period to...
Sysco Accuses 4 Largest Beef Processors of Price Fixing
(AP) The nation's largest food distributor has joined the other businesses accusing the four largest meat processors of working together to inflate beef prices.
Sysco...
Will ESG Reform Capitalism—or Destroy It?
(Dan Sanchez, Foundation for Economic Education) Stakeholder capitalism has taken the global economy by storm in recent years. Its champions proclaim that it will...
Retailers Scale Back Hiring as Worry About a Slowdown Grows
(AP) After going on a frenzied hiring spree for a year and a half to meet surging shopper demand, America's retailers are starting to...
Critics: Taxpayers on Hook for Biden’s Bailout of Union Pensions
(The Center Square) President Joe Biden on Wednesday touted a federal program to delay insolvency for private unions’ pension funds, but critics say taxpayer...
Inflation Pushed 71M People into Poverty Since Ukraine War
(AP) A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed...
Trump Property Appraiser Held in Contempt in NY Civil Probe
(AP) A company that has performed hundreds of property appraisals for Donald Trump has been held in contempt of court for missing a deadline...
NYC Bodega Worker Stabs Man to Death in Dispute over Bag...
(New York Post) Surveillance video captures the moment a Manhattan bodega worker allegedly stabbed a customer to death after the enraged man came around...
California to Pivot to Fossil Fuels to Avoid Blackouts
(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) In May, The Wall Street Journal reported that energy grid operators across the US were bracing for rolling blackouts heading into...
How a Hotel Satisfaction Promise Has Led to More Discontent
(Sally French, NerdWallet) In the 1990s and early 2000s, the "100% Satisfaction Guarantee" was all the rage among many hotels. The gist was simple:...
Companies Could Face Hurdles Covering Abortion Travel Costs
(AP) After the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the federal right to an abortion that's been in place for half a century, companies like Amazon,...
Beef Prices Will Continue to Climb
(The Center Square) The price of food continues to go up and leading the way is the price of beef.
According to the American Farm...
Strike Three for the Federal Reserve
(Robert E. Wright, American Institute for Economic Research) America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve System (Fed), is currently decimating the US economy for the third...
Biden Fails Economics 101 as Stagflation Takes Hold
(Stefan Gleason, Money Metals News Service) As Joe Biden’s presidency descends into free-fall with voters, the economy may be on the verge of collapsing...
Biden’s Sanctions Bringing Russian Independence, American Recession
(Ron Paul Institute) It’s easy to see why, according to a new Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans said they do not want Joe...
Farmers Fight Climate Change Tyranny
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Farmers in the Netherlands have conducted several large demonstrations against radical plans—pushed by climate activists—to cut nitrogen and ammonia emissions.
Farmers used their...
It’s a New Era for Funding on Both Sides of Abortion...
(AP) The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has ushered in a new era of funding on both sides of the abortion debate.
With...
